Previous Field Trips
A Taste of the ASM Basket Collection
24 September, 2010 at 10:00 am
Ethnography curators Diane Dittemore and Andrew Higgins will share baskets from the extensive Arizona State Museum collection. Since the Museum presently does not have display space for these materials this is a rare chance to see some of these items. Materials and technology of this craft will be a focus of the talk. The tour [...] » Read more
Fort Bowie National Mounument: The Apache Wars and the Butterfield Trail
16 October, 2010 at all day
» Read moreNeon Lights, Tourists Courts and By-gone Gas Stations
11 December, 2010 at 12:00 pm
Join us for a van tour led by Demion Clinco, President of the Tucson Historic Preservation Society. We will see what remains of 1950′s tourist Tucson. Neon lights, tourist courts, old gas stations. There is a $10 charge and non-AAHS members are welcome. To register contact Katherine Cerino. » Read moreRomero Ruins - Beyond the Path
22 January, 2011 at 9:00 am
THIS FIELD TRIP IS FULL. There is a waiting list. Romero Ruin in Catalina State Park is one of the largest and most significant archaeological sites within the northern Tucson Basin. The ruins are the remains of a Hohokam village that was occupied between A.D. 500 and A.D. 1450. Also visible at the site are [...] » Read more
University Indian Ruins
4 March, 2011 at 9:00 am
Drs Paul and Suzanne Fish will lead a tour of University Indian Ruins, the site of the current University of Arizona Field School. This 13-acre property located in Indian Ridge Estates was a gift to the School of Anthropology in the 1930s and includes one of the last remaining Hohokam Classic Period platform mound sites [...] » Read more
Ancestral Hopi Painted Pottery Seminar with Patrick Lyons
20 May, 2011 at 10:00 am
photo courtesy of Janelle Weakly, ASM ANCESTRAL HOPI PAINTED POTTERY SEMINAR Join Dr. Patrick Lyons, ASM Acting Associate Director and Head of Collections, for a two-hour seminar focused on ancestral Hopi painted pottery. Dr. Lyons will teach about the typology and chronology of Jeddito Yellow Ware, Jeddito Orange Ware, Winslow Orange Ware, and Hopi White Ware, [...] » Read more
Hohokam Painted Pottery Workshop with Patrick Lyons and Mike Jacobs
7 October, 2011 at 10:00 am
Santa Cruz Red-on-buff jar, burden-carrier motifs Hohokam, Gila Bend Province, ca. 850-950 CE Four Mile Site, Painted Rock Reservoir, Maricopa Co., AZ Gift of Norton Allen & Ethel Crane Allen, 1994 – Allen Collection (94-134-442) Join Dr. Patrick Lyons, ASM Acting Associate Director and Head of Collections, and Mike Jacobs, Archaeological Collections Curator, for a two-hour [...] » Read more
Cerro Prieto
29 October, 2011 at all day
This tour will be led by UA graduate student, Matt Pailes, as a follow up to his October 2010 lecture. Cerro Prieto, located about 40 miles northwest of Tucson, is a well-preserved terraced Hohokam village dating between A.D. 1150 and 1300. Cerro Prieto contains more than 200 rooms and dozens of terraces and trails. This [...] » Read more
New Discoveries and Highlights of Sutherland Wash Rock Art District
12 November, 2011 at all day
Come see what has been newly discovered. A multi-year effort by a group of AAHS members to record the rock art in Sutherland Wash Rock Art District will be completed this year. Having already recorded 680 panels and grinding features, the group is currently working on the ancient trails. The site, also known as Baby [...] » Read more
Tumacácori, Guevavi and Calabazas Missions
10 December, 2011 at all day
San Cayetano de Calabazas Three Tumacácori Missions, guided by Jeremy Moss, Archaeologist, Chief of Resource Management, Tumacácori NHP Tumacácori National Historic Park protects three Spanish colonial mission ruins in southern Arizona: Tumacácori, Guevavi, and Calabazas. The adobe structures are on three sites, with a visitor center at Tumacácori. These missions are among more than twenty established in the Pimería Alta [...] » Read more
Fort Huachuca Archaeology
21 January, 2012 at all day
Pictographs at Garden Canyon The third Saturday of the New Year will find us visiting archaeological sites in the vicinity of Ft. Huachuca, led by archaeologist Martyn Tagg. We will leave at 8:30 a.m. from the northwest corner of the Houghton Road exit and I-10 East in order to carpool as parking is an issue at [...] » Read more
Sears Point Weekend
18 February, 2012 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, 2012 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, 2012 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, 2012 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