Archaeologists Jane Sliva and Jenny Adams offer a Workshop in Stone Tool Technology for Center members. This two-part workshop gives participants a hands-on opportunity to experience how ground and flaked stone tools were made and used. As a companion to the workshop, the Center publishes seminal manuals for ground stone and flaked stone analysis.

The San Pedro Archaeological Preservation Program is established. This long-term initiative combines landscape archaeology research with efforts to preserve the remarkable cultural resources found along the entire San Pedro River watershed.

The Center’s public programs are awarded the Arizona Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation in the Education Category.

The Center’s Preservation Fellowship program is established.  Michelle Stevens is awarded the first preservation fellowship. Michelle leads Center volunteers in a survey of more than 40 square miles in the Cienega Valley, southeast of Tucson.

Archaeology in the Mountain Shadows: Exploring the Romero Ruin is published. Written by Deborah L. Swartz and William H. Doelle, this is the first publication in the Archaeology Library, a new Center publication series designed for the general public.