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AAHS@Home in collaboration with the Amerind Museum brings you a virtual tour of one of the largest and best documented A:shiwi (Zuni) and Diné (Navajo) jewelry collections in the world. The Vander Wagen collection at the Amerind Museum includes thousands of jewelry pieces made by artisans and masters from the late 19th through 20th century. […]
photo by Lance K. Trask TRIP is POSTPONED DUE TO COVID-19 TRIP FULL - WAITING LIST ONLY Join us for an early morning hike to see the rock imagery in King Canyon and Javelina Wash. For the past two years an AAHS-affiliated group “The Rock Band” led by Janine Hernbrode has been recording the rock […]
This trip is postponed due to COVID -19. We will reschedule when prudent. Join us for a trip to Silver City and the Mimbres Valley led by Mimbres scholar Pat Gilman. We will plan to spend Friday and Saturday nights in Silver City. For those who are able to arrive in Silver City before 3:30, there […]
Special Opportunity for AAHS Members Only AAHS@Home presents a close up tour of the renowned Arizona State Museum Pottery Vault with Dr. Patrick Lyons, ASM Director, Associate Professor of Anthropology, archaeologist and ceramics expert. In this pre-recorded tour Dr. Lyons will give an overview of the collection of 24,000 whole vessels housed in the vault. […]
This Field Trip is open to AAHS Members Only. You must pre-register for this event. You can do so by following this link. Take a virtual walk through King Canyon, a sacred location with a deep history now located in Saguaro National Park. Rock art researcher Janine Hernbrode will lead the tour with the help of […]
Join tour leaders Pat Gilman and Marilyn Markel for a virtual tour of the Mattocks Site To register click here This virtual field trip is open to the public but pre-registration is required The Mimbres region has seen some of the most intensive and extensive looting in North America because of the exquisite painted pottery. Many […]
Join archaeologist Scott Wood for a virtual tour of Goat Camp Ruin, located within the Town of Payson, Arizona, a relatively small but well preserved prehistoric village containing 25+ surface rooms of both full height stone masonry and jacal walls on stone foundations, a central plaza, a number of stone retaining walls and check dams, […]
Dr. Deni Seymour will lead us on a tour of Santa Cruz de Terrenate, the best-preserved example of three presidios (forts) established in what is now the southern Arizona by the Spanish colonial government. The objective was to provide the missions, settlers, and Christianized Native Americans of New Spain military protection from Apaches and other […]
Since soon after the pandemic began, Drs. John Douglass and Sarah Herr have walked a different Tucson neighborhood almost every Saturday morning. Early on, they focused on the nearly 40 (!) listed National Register Historic Districts in the Old Pueblo, and once they exhausted that list, they have been walking other neighborhoods. Come and walk […]
Immerse yourself in Sinagua and Southwestern history while spending a day and a half in Flagstaff with Coconino National Forest Service Archaeologist Peter Pilles. On Saturday we will visit Elden Pueblo (65 room excavated pueblo, Hopi ancestral site, Elden phase 1150-1250, type site, dug by Fewkes), Turkey Hill Pueblo (22 room pueblo, Turkey Hill phase […]
