ALL AAHS LECTURES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT YOU MUST PREREGISTER. TO REGISTER CLICK HERE. Researchers have puzzled over wide roadways associated with Chaco-style Great Houses in the U.S. Southwest for over a century. Despite frequent references to roads in Chaco scholarship, there has been relatively little on-the-ground assessment of how roads were used, […]

ALL AAHS LECTURES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT YOU MUST PREREGISTER. TO REGISTER CLICK HERE. A great variety of archaeological artifacts have been located both in the Southwest of the USA and in the West and Northwest of Mexico that has shown an intense interaction between both zones. Turquoises, metals, macaws are some of the examples […]

ALL AAHS LECTURES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT YOU MUST PREREGISTER. TO REGISTER CLICK HERE.   The rise of a pastoral tradition among early Diné (Navajo) communities in the American Southwest circa AD 1700 represents an important turn in the history of the region. Recent work including an ethnoarchaeological study of contemporary Diné herding […]

ALL AAHS LECTURES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT YOU MUST PREREGISTER. TO REGISTER CLICK HERE. Multiple interpretations have been proposed to explain what has been referred to as the “Chaco Phenomenon,” defined primarily by the construction of large masonry great houses and roads in Chaco Canyon. I briefly discuss the history of research in […]

This lecture will be presented simultaneously in person in Tucson and to you at home through Zoom. You choose the option that works for you! If participating virtually registration is required.  Use this link: https://bit.ly/2022MaySilvaREG-W If attending in person meet at this location: University of Arizona Environmental Resources Bldg. # 2 Room 107 1064 E […]

This lecture is now being offered VIRTUALLY ONLY through AAHS@Home and Zoom.  We have had to cancel the in-person option. Pre-registration is required:  Use this link: https://bit.ly/2022JuneTomkaREG   This presentation will provide a brief history of the collaborative endeavors forged between professional and avocational archaeologists over the last few decades of archaeological research. It will […]

This lecture is now being offered VIRTUALLY ONLY through AAHS@Home and Zoom.  Pre-registration is required:  Use this link:  https://bit.ly/2022JulyRothREG We often view the occupants of past pithouse and pueblo villages as households or groups, seeing them as a collective rather than as individuals who lived, worked, played, and interacted within a community. Our recent work […]

This lecture is being offered VIRTUALLY ONLY through Zoom. ALL AAHS LECTURES ARE OPEN TO THE PUBLIC BUT YOU MUST PREREGISTER. TO REGISTER CLICK HERE How were Salado polychrome (Roosevelt Red Ware) ceramics incorporated into Phoenix basin Hohokam ceramic assemblages during the late Classic period? Understanding the roles and relations of Salado pottery within local […]

This lecture is brought to you by AAHS@Home and Zoom. It is free and open to the public but you must REGISTER HERE.  Between about A.D. 850 and 1140, the archaeology of Chaco Canyon in northwestern New Mexico reveals the rapid construction of large communal structures where smaller settlements had existed previously and shows that […]