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 cafes are held on the first Tuesday of the month at Casa Viciente in Tucson

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

01/2009  Mark Elson, Human Adaptation to Catastrophic Events: The Eruption of Sunset Crater Volcano – Video Available!

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!