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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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.
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.
