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Chihuahua Adventure: Paquimé, Cueva de la Olla, & more!

Join AAHS and Dr. Paul Minnis, an archaeologist and ethnobotanist with extensive field experience in the Paquimé region for a 4-day tour of sites in Chihuahua, Mexico. Paquimé, previously known as Casas Grandes, was one of the largest and most influential communities in the ancient U.S. Southwest and northwestern Mexico and is UNESCO World Heritage […]

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Linda Gregonis – What’s in a Symbol? A Look at Hohokam Art and Imagery

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

All cultures use symbols to convey ideas. In archaeological contexts those symbols have become ways to  define and differentiate archaeological cultures. But what did the symbols mean to the artisans who created them? The art that Hohokam craftspeople produced embodied the world (seen and unseen) as they understood it. They were influenced by weather, animals they […]

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