Center President William Doelle chairs a session on archaeological resource preservation at the annual meeting of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in Los Angeles.

Elena and the Coin, the Center’s first children’s book, is published. The novel presents a picture of life in Tucson during the mid-nineteenth century. It was inspired by the many schoolchildren who visited the Center’s Presidio wall excavations.

The Center partners with Flagstaff’s Echo Productions to create In the Shadow of the Volcano: Prehistoric Life in Northern Arizona, a 28-minute video on recent archaeological excavations by Desert Archaeology, Inc., along U.S. Highway 89 north of Flagstaff. Public showings of the video are held in Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix.

Strategic planning begins on the Center’s Heritage Southwest Initiative, a major multi-year program directed at building a preservation archaeology network across the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest.