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March 2020
CANCELLED – Janine Hernbrode – “Patterns in Petroglyphs. Hints of the Hohokam Cosmology on the Landscape”
Fifteen years of rock art recording on four major petroglyph sites in Southern Arizona has enabled assembly of motif details, drawings, and photographs of more than 16,000 glyphs located in landscapes with similar characteristics. By applying the scientific method to the collected and organized data, by working with ethnographic accounts and linguistic analysis by others, and by consulting with indigenous people, we have gained some understanding of, and identified threads of continuity between Native American belief systems and the rock…
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POSTPONED – Harry Winters – “Casa Blanca Calendar Stick Record”
Due to the Coronavirus AAHS is temporarily cancelling its monthly lectures
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July 2020
Paul E. Minnis – “Mimbres and Paquimé Relationships?” (via Zoom)
LINK: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/79954472865 The Mimbres of southwestern New Mexico and Paquimé in northwestern Chihuahua are near each other with Mimbres ending around the time Paquimé rises to prominence. Not surprisingly, some have suggested a close relationship between the two with much of the Paquime population being displaced Mimbrenos. Paul Minnis, perhaps the only archaeologists to have worked extensively in both regions, discusses what he sees as the relationships. But first we need to consider how differences in the archaeology of the…
Find out more »September 2020
Karen R. Adams – “Food for Thought: The Deep History of Your Dinner”
This Zoom lecture is free and open to the public but you must pre-register. Any five-year old will tell you where our food comes from...the grocery store! But behind that simple truth is an extremely long history of human efforts to modify wild plants to make them more manageable, better tasting, and eventually highly productive. Human efforts at plant domestication began over 10,000 years ago in the Fertile Crescent and elsewhere. People on most of the world's continents domesticated a…
Find out more »October 2020
Kelsey Hanson – “Technologies of Capturing Color: Paint Practice and its Analysis in the U.S. Southwest”
This lecture will be presented via Zoom. This event is open to the public but you must pre-register. The American Southwest is brilliantly colored. However, naturally occurring colors are not easily imparted into the material world. The ability to capture color from the natural world through paint requires deep cultural knowledge of geologic sources, processing requirements, and application techniques that remain severely understudied. In this lecture, I will contextualize paint practice as a technology. The production of paint is…
Find out more »November 2020
Jeffrey H. Altschul – “Using the Past as a Bridge to the Future”
This zoom lecture is open to the public but you must pre-register. There is a rising call for science to confront head-on problems facing society. Discussing the COVID-19 pandemic, Marcia McNutt (2020), President of the National Academy of Sciences, stated simply “Society is depending on science to deliver us from this health, social, and economic crisis.” She went on to argue that science needs to be actionable—provide results to policy makers in a timely and understandable manner—and strategic—focused not just…
Find out more »January 2021
6th Annual AAHS Research Slam and Winter Party
This year’s 6th Annual Research Slam and Winter Party on January 11, 2021 beginning at 6:30 p.m. is shaping up to be a great event. To register follow this link bit.ly/ResSlam2020 . Nine slammers from around the Southwest will be competing to raise money for the AAHS Research and Travel Grant program. Check out our silent auction at BiddingOwl.com/ArizonaArchaeological. Bidding is open now and in addition to items you can bid on expert led private tours to Tumamoc Hill and Cocoraque Butte.…
Find out more »John D. Speth – “The Beginnings of Plains-Pueblo Interaction—The View from Southeastern New Mexico”
This webinar is open to the public but you must pre-register. “…the people follow the cows, hunting them and tanning their skins to take to the settlements in the winter to sell, since they go there to pass the winter, each company going to those which are nearest, some to the settlements at Cicuye , others toward Quivira, and others to the settlements which are situated in the direction of Florida. They travel like the Arabs, with their tents and…
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Steven R. James – “Zooarchaeology at Pueblo Grande and the Origin of Chickens in the American Southwest (Or Why Did the Chickens Cross the Desert?)”
Preregistration Required at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_pL_cPqmXQkGOtDKGFcfFzw In the late 1930s, a Works Progress Administration (WPA) crew under the direction of Albert H. Schroeder excavated Trash Mound No. 1, a Preclassic Colonial period deposit (A.D. 775-950) at the extensive Hohokam site of Pueblo Grande along the Salt River in Phoenix, Arizona. This material remained largely unanalyzed at the Pueblo Grande Museum for over 50 years, and results of the analysis are presented here. Comparisons are then made with a large Classic period (A.D.…
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