2024
07
Sep
How Did People Make Dart Points & Arrowheads?
Join us for an engaging Hands-On Archaeology class with ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer.
How Did People Make Dart Points & Arrowheads?
You will use traditional techniques using deer antlers and rocks to create stone projectile points.
Learn about the history of stone tools and...
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2024
31
Jul
Reaching out to Indigenous Youth
Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
(July 31, 2024)—We had three incredible opportunities to spend quality time with Indigenous young people this summer. Here, I share my reflections on those occasions, as well as those of some of my ...
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2024
03
Jul
Hands On, Phone Off
Mikayla Vasquez-Salgado, University of New Mexico
(June 28, 2024)—My time with Archaeology Southwest has already been an eye-opening and informative experience. During our first week of field school, my rotation was experimental archaeology. I found out firsthand (literally) just how much work it...
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2024
03
Jul
Preservation Archaeology Field School 3.0!
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(June 27, 2024)—Preservation Archaeology Field School is back, and I couldn’t be happier about it! After a one-year hiatus for planning, we’ve just begun a new field school program focused...
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2024
01
Jun
World Atlatl Day: Hands-On Archaeology at Catalina State Park
World Atlatl Day: Hands-On Archaeology at Catalina State Park
Date: Saturday, June 1, 2024
Time: 7:00 a.m. - 11:00 a.m.
Location: Catalina State Park, in front of the Romero Trailhead
Join Archaeology Southwest's Hands-On Archaeology program for a fascinating and interactive celebration ...
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2024
27
Apr
Fourth Saturday Archaeology Days at Mission Garden
Mission Garden is inaugurating this Fall’s interactive Archaeology Days, taking place each fourth Saturday of the month through spring of 2024. Fourth Saturday Archaeology Days are an expansion of the Hands-on Archaeology programs at Mission Garden in past years.
Join ancient technologies exper...
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2024
13
Apr
Second Saturday at Steam Pump Ranch
Join Archaeology Southwest for Hands-On Archaeology at Steam Pump Ranch on Second Saturday, April 13th, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist, will lead family-friendly activities near the replica Hohokam Pithouse at the Heritage Garden.
We look forward to seeing y...
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2024
06
Apr
How Did People Tan Hides?
Join us for an engaging Hands-On Archaeology class with ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer.
How Did People Tan Hides?
Work on tanning a small mammal hide (packrat or squirrel), using tools used by people in the past.
Expect extensive hands-on work.
This class will begin at 9:00 a...
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2024
23
Mar
Fourth Saturday Archaeology Days at Mission Garden
Mission Garden is inaugurating this Fall’s interactive Archaeology Days, taking place each fourth Saturday of the month through spring of 2024. Fourth Saturday Archaeology Days are an expansion of the Hands-on Archaeology programs at Mission Garden in past years.
Join ancient technologies exper...
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2024
09
Mar
Archaeology Southwest at Tucson Festival of Books
Join Archaeology Southwest at the Festival of Books!
Join us at booth 261 at the 2024 Tucson Festival of Books. Engage with Allen Denoyer as he demonstrates flintknapping, atlatls, arrow-shaft straighteners, and more, and check out our latest issue of Archaeology Southwest Magazine, Love of the G...
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2024
02
Mar
How Did People Make and Use Atlatls?
Join us for an engaging Hands-On Archaeology class with ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer.
How Did People Make and Use Atlatls?
Create a replica atlatl and dart, mirroring tools used by hunters in the distant past.
Crafted from oak, following archaeological examples from the Southwe...
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2024
24
Feb
Fourth Saturday Archaeology Days at Mission Garden
Mission Garden is inaugurating this Fall’s interactive Archaeology Days, taking place each fourth Saturday of the month through spring of 2024. Fourth Saturday Archaeology Days are an expansion of the Hands-on Archaeology programs at Mission Garden in past years.
Join ancient technologies exper...
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