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Tucson Origins: The Archaeology of Rio Nuevo
Tucson Orgins: The history and archaeology of the Rio NUevo Project
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Archaeologists have returned to the San Agustín Mission Site and are finding detailed evidence about the historic era O'odham. More inormation about these people, the first actual Tucsonans, will be posted soon.


San Agustín Menu
Excavation Diary
Interactive
Site Map
History of the Mission Site
Historic Photographs
Excavation
Photographs
Artifacts from
the Mission Site
The Mission Garden
Reconstructing
the Mission
Virtual Tour

Archaeological and Historical Research at
The San Agustín Mission

Unfortunatly, there was very liitle archaeological data remaining on the mission site to inform a reconstruction of the mission. However, using 3d modeling software as a type of virtual blackboard, data from historic maps, archaeological investigtaions, and historic photographs was integrated into a model of Tucson's birthplace.
 

Confidence Model - Areas rendered in Blue Class lack photographic data.


 
 

Virtual Flyaround of the San Agustin Mission Conjectural Reconstruction.


 
 

Walkthrough of the San Agustin Mission Conjectural Reconstruction.


 

The animations on these pages were created in 3d Studio Max. The Center for Desert Archaeology would like acknowledge the generous donations by Autodesk and Adobe that have made this research possible.

 

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