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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.
Identity and Social Transformation in the Prehispanic Cibola World - Matthew Peeples
21 May at 7:30 pm
St. Johns Polychrome bowl from the Scribe S site in the El Morro Valley, New Mexico. Since the early days of anthropological archaeology in the Southwest, archaeologists have been fundamentally interested in relating rapid changes in settlement and material culture to transformations in cultural identity. In this talk, using data from the Cibola region of the [...] » Read more
Hands on Prehistory - Allen Denoyer
18 June at 7:30 pm
Allen Denoyer demonstrating flintknapping at Casa Grande Ruins Experimental archaeology provides a wealth of information that helps archaeologists reconstruct the past. Information gained from experimental studies is often crucial for understanding prehistoric technologies, especially those technologies that are no longer practiced by living people. In addition to providing information useful to archaeologists for an academic understanding [...] » Read more
Flintknapping Workshop
23 June at 8:30 am
Come learn the ancient art of flintknapping. Join Jon Boyd, avocational archaeologist and flintknapper for a morning lecture, demonstration and student hands-on session at the Arizona State Museum. Jon will cover subjects such as the history of flintknapping and various types of flaking techniques and strategies for bifacial reduction, leading up to students trying it [...] » Read more"Chacoan Immigration and Influence in the Middle San Juan" - Paul Reed
15 October 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