Archaeology Café
Archaeology Cafés are held on the first Tuesdays of September–May at Casa Vicente in Tucson.
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 the national Science Cafe website for more information on the grassroots science cafe movement.
Our 2010–2011 season is made possible, in part, by the Arizona Humanities Council.
2010–2011 Schedule
09/07/2010 Panel led by Michael J. Boley, 2,500 Years in the Marsh: The Marsh Station Road Site
10/05/2010 Paul Reed, The Complexity and Diversity of Chaco Canyon
11/02/2010 R. Brooks Jeffery, Sustainability and Sense of Place: Defining a New Vernacular Architecture
12/07/2010 Patrick Lyons, The Role of Pottery in Understanding the Ancient Southwest
01/04/2011 Todd Surovell, What Happened to the Mammoths? Pleistocene Extinctions in North America
02/01/2011 Panel led by Dale Brenneman, Telling the O’Odham Side of History in the Pimería Alta
03/01/2011 M. Steven Shackley, What Obsidian Studies Hath Wrought in the Southwest
04/05/2011 Douglas Gann, Paso por aquí with Lasers: Lidar Documentation of Inscriptions at El Morro
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 and unreserved—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.
Past Archaeology Cafés
The Center for Desert Archaeology is in the process of digitizing and uploading video recordings of past Archaeology Cafés.
05/04/2010 Suzanne Griset, The Other Codetalkers
04/06/2010 Ron Towner, Early Navajos, Tree-rings, and Warfare in the Dinétah Heartland Video Available – Low Bandwidth – High Quality
03/16/2010 Steve Lekson, Where Did the Mimbres Go, and Where Did Paquime Come From? Video Avaliable – Low Bandwidth – High Quality
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 Available!
