Events
AAHS activities include monthly lectures, field trips, museum visits and archaeological activities. Lectures, which are free and open to the public are held the third Monday of the month, every month except August, at 7:30 pm in DuVal Auditorium, University Medical Center, 1501 N. Campbell Ave., Tucson. Field trips are generally held monthly. Current projects include curation and analysis of materials from the Redtail Site in Marana. We jointly sponsor a Navajo Textile Study Group with the Tucson Museum of Art.
Sears Point Weekend
18 February at 11:00 am
Evelyn Billo and Robert Mark have been leading a multi-year effort to document the extensive rock art along the Gila River between Gila Bend and Yuma. President’s Weekend they will lead a trip for AAHS to see some of sites. We will meet in Gila Bend at 10:00 am on Saturday, February 18th and proceed [...] » Read more
Evelyn Billo, Robert Mark and Donald E. Weaver, Jr. - "Sears Point Rock Art and Beyond, Synopsis of the 2008-2012 Recording Project"
20 February at 7:30 pm
Petroglyph antlers reach for the sky in the Sears Point Archaeological District, Arizona. Utilized for centuries by many cultures, the National Register Sears Point Archaeological District (SPAD) is located along the rich riparian habitat of the Gila River. Currently managed by the Yuma District of the Bureau of Land Management, a large portion of the District [...] » Read more
William Lipe - Before Lake Powell: Memories of Glen Canyon Archaeology
19 March at 7:30 pm
Glen Canyon Project Field School, Loper Ruin, mouth of Red Canyon. Summer of 1958 When the Glen Canyon Dam was completed in 1963, Lake Powell started to fill, eventually extending more than 180 miles up the Colorado River in Arizona and Utah. Named by John Wesley Powell in 1869, Glen Canyon lay at the heart of [...] » Read more
Tumamoc Hill
24 March at 8:30 am
Remains of Prehistoric Walls atop Tumamoc Hill Tumamoc Hill just west of the Santa Cruz river in downtown Tucson is a trincheras site with occupations going back to 500 BC. There are also a large number of Hohokam petroglyphs. Our leaders will be Paul and Suzanne Fish and Gayle Hartmann. To register email David McLean. The [...] » Read more
Ben A. Nelson - "Power, Distance, and Mesoamerican-US Southwestern Interaction"
16 April at 7:30 pm
Ben Nelson “Trade goods” found at impressive distances from their sources in today’s American Southwest and Mexico have inspired archaeologists to think of imperial reach, commercial exploitation, mercantilism, and explosive growth of power centers. Turquoise, copper, macaws, and pseudo-cloisonné ceramics, along with symbols such as butterflies and the horned serpent, have long been seen as evidence [...] » Read more
Early People of the Colorado Plateau
28 April at all day
Petroglyphs at Rock Art Ranch photo by Janine Hernbrode Join us as we journey to northern Arizona to learn about the early populations who inhabited portions of the Colorado Plateau country. We begin our journey on Friday afternoon, April 27, 2011, meeting at the Museum of Northern Arizona (MNA) at 1:00 p.m., where we will [...] » Read more
University of Arizona's Tree Ring Lab
5 May at 9:00 am
Established in 1937, the UA Laboratory of Tree Ring Research is the world’s premier and largest center devoted to dendrochronology – the study of environments and cultures using tree rings. Beyond the use of dendrochronology in archaeology with which AAHS members are most familiar, the lab pursues multi-disciplinary applications of dendrochronology in climatology, ecology, geology, [...] » Read moreIdentity and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic Cibola World - Matthew Peeples
21 May at 7:30 pm
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Joshua D Reuther & Ben Potter - "Upward Sun River site: Climate change, geoarchaeology and human land use in Ice Age Alaska"
19 November at 7:30 pm
2011 Excavation at the Upward Sun River Site, interior Alaska – photo by Ben A. Potter The Tanana River Valley region in interior Alaska has one of the longest archaeological records in North America dating back to 14,000 calendar years ago, at the end of the Ice Age. Several multi-component sites including Upward Sun River, Gerstle [...] » Read more