Field Trips
AAHS schedules field trips most months. To participate in AAHS field trips you must be a current member of the Society. If you have suggestions for field trips that you would like to see scheduled please contact Katherine Cerino, Vice President for Activities.
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
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
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 more