history

1982-1983 – Research at the Valencia Site

The Valencia SiteThe Institute investigates the Valencia Site, a large Hohokam ballcourt village along the Santa Cruz River in the southern Tucson Basin. This important site reveals evidence of more than 10,000 years of Tucson’s prehistory, including a Clovis point, several Archaic/Early Agricultural period pithouses, and an extensive Hohokam occupation.