We are once again accepting book donations for our Used Book Sales

 

Events

Steve Lekson – “Studying Southwestern Archaeology”

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

For over a century, archaeology got the history of the ancient Southwest wrong.  So argues Steve Lekson as he advocates for an entirely new approach – one that separates archaeological thought in the Southwest from its anthropological home and moves it to more historical ways of thinking.  Focusing on the enigmatic monumental center at Chaco […]

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CANCELLED – Used Book Sale

Arizona State Museum

In conjunction with the Tucson Festival of Books we will once again be set up in front of the Arizona State Museum selling used books of all types. Lots of anthropology, fiction, art, history! Prices are extremely reasonable. Come stalk up! Ninety percent of the proceeds go to support the Arizona State Museum library  

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CANCELLED – Janine Hernbrode – “Patterns in Petroglyphs. Hints of the Hohokam Cosmology on the Landscape”

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

Fifteen years of rock art recording on four major petroglyph sites in Southern Arizona has enabled assembly of motif details, drawings, and photographs of more than 16,000 glyphs located in landscapes with similar characteristics. By applying the scientific method to the collected and organized data, by working with ethnographic accounts and linguistic analysis by others, […]

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Paul E. Minnis – “Mimbres and Paquimé Relationships?” (via Zoom)

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LINK:   https://us02web.zoom.us/j/79954472865 The Mimbres of southwestern New Mexico and Paquimé in northwestern Chihuahua are near each other with Mimbres ending around the time Paquimé rises to prominence. Not surprisingly, some have suggested a close relationship between the two with much of the Paquime population being displaced Mimbrenos. Paul Minnis, perhaps the only archaeologists to have […]

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Archaeological Perishables Field Trip via Zoom – For AAHS Members Only

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Join other AAHS members for a virtual field trip through some of the Arizona State Museum’s (ASM) oldest, most fragile, and most important collections. This is an opportunity for AAHS members to experience some of the archaeological perishables curated at ASM, rarely seen by the public.  The perishables highlighted are part of the 35,000 items […]

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Virtual Tour of the Vander Wagen Collection at Amerind

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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.  […]

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Karen R. Adams – “Food for Thought: The Deep History of Your Dinner”

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This Zoom lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register. Any five-year old will tell you where our food comes from...the grocery store! But behind that simple truth is an extremely long history of human efforts to modify wild plants to make them more manageable, better tasting, and eventually highly productive. […]

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