Distributed amidst the petroglyphs at three of the largest Ancestral O’odham (Hohokam) petroglyph sites in Southern Arizona are assemblages of boulders that resonate when struck producing distinct bell-like sounds.  The visual traces of sound-making on large bell rocks and adjacent bedrock indicate they were not only chimed with percussion strikers to resonate with sound but also were abraded with a grinding motion to produce volumes of sound.

Lectures are offered in a hybrid format, presented in person at the University of Arizona in Tucson, Building ENR2, Agnese Nelms Haury Lecture Hall, Room 107, and simultaneously through Zoom. Join in Person or Join by Zoom To register for the Zoom presentation, click the button below: Register Here Archaeological data provide the only direct […]

  CHOOSE HOW YOU WILL ATTEND Join us in person at the University of Arizona Environmental Resources Bldg. # 2  Room 107, Agnese Nelms Haury Lecture Hall, 1064 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85719  No registration is required  Parking is easy!  The 6th Street Parking Garage is right next to ENR2 on the east. There […]

CHOOSE HOW YOU WILL ATTEND Join us in person at the University of Arizona Environmental Resources Bldg. # 2  Room 107, Agnese Nelms Haury Lecture Hall, 1064 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85719  No registration is required  Parking is easy! The 6th Street Parking Garage is right next to ENR2 on the east. There is also […]

This lecture will be presented by Zoom only. Preregistration is required. To register click here. All cultures use symbols to convey ideas. In archaeological contexts, those symbols have become ways to define and differentiate archaeological cultures. But what did the symbols mean to the artisans who created them? The art that Hohokam craftspeople produced embodied the […]

This lecture will be by Zoom only. While the lecture is free and open to the public you must register in advance. To register click here. Relatively few Chacoan communities have been documented in detail. Those that have been well documented provide evidence of demographic change, social organization, and relationships to the landscape. This presentation […]

THIS LECTURE WILL BE PRESENTED BY ZOOM Only. It is open to the public but you must pre-register at https://bit.ly/2024SeptEckert_REG The Lion Mountain area is located at the boundaries of three cultural traditions: the Rio Grande region, the Cibola region, and the Mogollon region. Over time, residents of the region built a Chaco Great House, built […]

CHOOSE HOW YOU WILL ATTEND Join us in person University of Arizona Environmental Resources Bldg. # 2  Room 107, Agnese Nelms Haury Lecture Hall, 1064 E Lowell St, Tucson, AZ 85719  No registration is required  Parking is easy!  The 6th Street Parking Garage is right next to ENR2 on the east. There is also a […]

This presentation is by Zoom only. To register Click Here. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Camp Naco is a cornerstone of Buffalo Soldier history in Arizona and represents the proud tradition of Black military regiments after the Civil War.  The Camp’s 17-acre site and 100+ year-old adobe buildings sit just 600 […]