Archive for October, 2010

Digital Video – Raymond H. Thompson – The Real Dirt of Southwestern Archaeology : Tall Tales from the Good Old Days

In case you missed Dr Thompson’s presentation at the last meeting of the AAHS, the folks at the Center for Desert Archaeology’s Digital Humanities Laboratory have posted this lecture here as a digital video.

Fort Bowie National Mounument: The Apache Wars and the Butterfield Trail

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Matt Pailes – “Cerros de Trincheras in the Hohokam World: A Case Study of the Cerro Prieto Site”

[ October 18, 2010; 7:30 pm to 9:00 pm. ] [caption id="attachment_815" align="alignleft" width="380" caption="Matt Pailes at Cerro Prieto"][/caption]

In the Tucson Basin the Hohokam early Classic period (ca. AD 1150) is characterized by large-scale population movements and the appearance of specialized site types including platform mound settlements and cerros de trincheras. Platform mounds are common throughout the Hohokam region during the Classic period. Cerros de [...]

Zuni Origins: Toward a New Synthesis of Southwestern Archaeology, edited by David A. Gregory and David R. Wilcox

Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 1
Reviewed by Wesley Bernardini

Matilda Coxe Stevenson: Pioneering Anthropologist by Darlis A. Miller

Kiva Book Review Vol 76, No 1
Reviewed by Don D Fowler

AAHS Used Book Sale

[ October 30, 2010; 9:00 am to 4:00 pm. ] Annual book sale to support the ASM library will be held in the Arizona State Museum Lobby. Hundreds of Southwest archaeology books and journals as well as general interst books starting at a $1.00. AAHS members admitted at 8:00 am.