Archaeology Café
The Center for Desert Archaeology and Casa Vicente invite you to Archaeology Café, a casual, happy hour-style discussion forum dedicated to promoting community engagement with cultural and scientific research. Visit www.sciencecafes.org for more information on this exciting grassroots movement, which is already well-established in France and the United Kingdom.
Archaeology Cafés are held on the first Tuesdays of September–May at Casa Vicente in Tucson.
We meet the first Tuesday of each month from September to May at 6:00 p.m.; presentations begin at 6:15 p.m. Our forum opens with a brief, informal presentation on a timely or even controversial topic, followed by a question and answer period and a short break. Our moderator then commences spirited but focused discussion.
Come settle in with a drink and a plate of delicious tapas at downtown Tucson’s own Casa Vicente, 375 S. Stone Avenue, Tucson, Arizona 85701. Seating is open—be ready to make new acquaintances! Guests are encouraged to support our hosts at Casa Vicente by purchasing their own food and drinks. For more information, or to be added to our email list for upcoming cafés, contact Kate Sarther Gann at (520) 882-6946, or by email.
The Center for Desert Archaeology is in the process of digitizing and uploading video recordings of past Archaeology Cafés.
Past Archaeology Cafés
02/02/2010 Tom Sheridan, Moquis and Kastilam: Comparing and Contrasting Hopi Oral Traditions with the Spanish Colonial Documentary Record – Download Handout Materials
01/05/2010 Gene Caywood, Tucson’s Electric Streetcars—Then and Now
12/01/2009 Don Burgess, Romans in Tucson? The Story of an Archaeological Hoax
11/03/2009 Homer Thiel, Archaeology of a Mexican Family: The Leóns of Tucson
10/2009 James Watson, Deserts, Diets, and Dentition – Video Available!
09/2009 Panel discussion, Rio Nuevo sin Dinero: The Future of the Tucson Origins Project
05/2009, Panel discussion, Ancient Farmers of Tucson
04/2009 Demion Clinco, A Neon Legacy: The Rise and Fall of Tucson’s Highway
03/2009 Allen West, Diamonds, Mammoths, and Comets
02/2009 Panel discussion, The Archaeology of a Historic Tucson Cemetery
12/2008 Paul Reed, Chaco’s Unruly and Disobedient Prodigies
10/2008 Ken Zoll, Ancient Astronomy of Northern Arizona
09/2008 Jonathan Mabry, Ancient Tucson: The First Farming Villages – Video Avaliable!
