Mark your calendars for our annual Winter Party and Auction, January 11th
Donate to our Research and Travel Grant funds
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Our annual fall used book sale will be held in the lobby of the Arizona State Museum, Friday October 21 from 10 to 4 and Saturday October 22, from 10 to 2. Ninety percent of the proceeds go to support the Arizona State Museum. All books are half price on Saturday from 12 to 2. […]
Our annual fall used book sale will be held in the lobby of the Arizona State Museum, Friday October 21 from 10 to 4 and Saturday October 22, from 10 to 2. Ninety percent of the proceeds go to support the Arizona State Museum. All books are half price on Saturday from 12-2. We have […]
This field trip has been CANCELLED This upcoming AAHS field trip is a walking tour through the historic Willo Neighborhood, located near Midtown Phoenix. The Willo neighborhood contains outstanding examples of early 20th century residential architecture. Phoenix experienced rapid growth in the 1920s, leading to a construction boom of new homes, including a series of […]
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 […]
Our December field trip will be lead by retired Forest Archaeologist Bill Gillespie to tour of the Marijilda Site in the Safford Basin. This site is a large masonry pueblo founded in the 1300s by Ancestral Pueblo migrants. Marijilda has never been formally excavated, but features over 40 rooms, three plazas, a diverse ceramic assemblage, […]
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 […]
Join us for the AAHS Winter Party and Fundraiser through Zoom Webinar to be with family, friends, colleagues and others interested in the archaeology, history and cultures of the Southwest for a celebration of who we are. The committee has added three fun spontaneous debates for your education and entertainment that will occur during […]
Representatives of the Friends of Kentucky Camp and Coronado National Forest will be leading a tour of the Kentucky Camp Historic District located approximately an hour and a half southeast of Tucson, near the community of Sonoita. Beginning in the 1870s the eastern hills of the Santa Rita Mountains were the site of extensive gold […]
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 […]
We will be set up in front of the Arizona State Museum during the Tucson Festival of Books on March 4th and 5th. Lots of new titles especially history and biography as well as archaeology. As always the sale supports the Arizona State Museum library. Please stop by, browse and buy.
