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Nancy Parezo – Arizona’s and New Mexico’s Hidden Scholars: Husband and Wife Archaeological Teams

This lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register at: https://bit.ly/2022NovParezoREG  In 1983 I began a research project to document and honor the over 1600 women who have worked in the American Southwest between 1870 and 1940 and published articles about what they learned. We knew much about the most famous […]

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Maxwell Forton – High Places in the Painted Desert: Exploring Salient Spaces at Petrified Forest National Park

This lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register at:     https://bit.ly/2022DecFortonREG Petrified Forest National Park, located a few hours east of Flagstaff, is world renowned for its deposits of Triassic-era petrified wood. This landscape also contains a rich cultural history, with over 10,000 years of human habitation and use preserved […]

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Davina Two Bears – The Leupp Isolation Center Historical Site:  Interconnections of Navajo and Japanese American History during World War II

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THIS LECTURE IS OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT YOU MUST CLICK HERE TO PREREGISTER The Old Leupp Boarding School was a federal Indian boarding school in operation on the southwest Navajo Reservation in northern Arizona from 1909-1942, but after the school closed, the United States War Department reused the OLBS as a Japanese Citizen Isolation Center in […]

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Julio Amador Bech- “Rain and Fertility Symbolism in the Rock Art and Cultural Landscape of the Trincheras Sites of Northwestern Sonora

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This event is open to the public. To register CLICK HERE Trincheras archaeological sites of northwestern Sonora (A.D. 200 – 1450) are located in the lower Sonoran Desert, along the Magdalena, Altar, and Asunción/Concepción river drainages and adjacent volcanic hills. The Trincheras tradition is characterized by terraced hill-sides with stairs, ramps, and pathways connecting the […]

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Patricia Crown – “Drinking Rituals and Politics in Chaco Canyon”

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The presenter has asked that the session not be recorded nor posted on YouTube.   This lecture is free and open to the public. To register click HERE Drinking rituals are common throughout the world, and they impact exchange, crafts, the economy, and politics in the past.  For the last two decades, Crown has studied […]

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Peter J. Pilles, Jr. – “The Legacy of New Deal Programs to Northern Arizona and Southwest Archaeology”

  This lecture is offered through Zoom.  Beginning September 2023, AAHS monthly lectures will be held at the U of Arizona, ENR2, Room 107 and simultaneously broadcast through Zoom.  This lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register at:   https://bit.ly/2023MayPillesREG   During the 1930s, federal New Deal programs financed and […]

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Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers – “Between Casas Grandes and Salado: The Establishment of an Indigenous Borderland in the Late Prehispanic American Southwest/Mexican Northwest”

This lecture is offered through Zoom. Beginning September 2023, AAHS monthly lectures will be held at the U of Arizona, ENR2, Room 107 and simultaneously broadcast through Zoom. This lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register at:  https://bit.ly/2023JuneRogersREG While archaeologists continue to investigate processes of cultural contact and frontier construction […]

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The Fremont Cultural Tradition at the Northern Edge of the Greater Southwest – Michael Searcy

This lecture is offered through Zoom. It will be recorded and posted after the lecture on the AAHS youtube channel.  Beginning September 2023, AAHS monthly lectures will be held at the U of Arizona, ENR2, Room 107 and simultaneously broadcast through Zoom.  This lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register […]

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Contributions of Marjorie F. Lambert to Southwest Archaeology – Shelby Tisdale

University of Arizona ENR2 Room 107, 1064 E Lowell St, Tucson 1064 E Lowell St., Tucson, AZ, United States

  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 […]

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Nicholas Kessler – “Tree-Ring Dating Techniques for the Desert Basin of Southern and Central Arizona”

University of Arizona ENR2 Room 107, 1064 E Lowell St, Tucson 1064 E Lowell St., Tucson, AZ, United States

Cultural chronologies in the desert basins of the Southwestern U.S. rely on radiocarbon dates and ceramic sequences that are limited in terms of resolution. More precise dating methods, such as dendrochronology, have not been traditionally applied here due to the limited number of datable trees in arid locales.

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