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Aerial view of Casa Grande National Monument

The Hohokam World Learning Expedition

November 5–9, 2008

ASM archaeologists Paul and Suzanne Fish take you on an in-depth and expertly guided tour of Hohokam sites in southern Arizona. Highlights include behind the scenes with ASM collections and in archaeological laboratories, an ethnobotany walk at the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, archaeological site visits, and a traditional Tohono O’odham lunch. Paul and Suzy are co-editors of The Hohokam Millennium, a new popular book published by the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe.

TENTATIVE ITINERARY

Day 1 (11/5/08, Wednesday)

6:30-8:00 p.m.
A roundtable discussion with the authors and editors of The Hohokam Millennium at Arizona State Museum. Room 309, third floor, north building

Hohokam pottery

Day 2 (11/6/08, Thursday)

Morning at Arizona State Museum

  • Lecture: Introduction to the Hohokam
  • Workshop: Hohokam ceramics
  • Tour: Arizona State Museum Hohokam collections
  • Tour: Borderlands Archaeology Lab                        

Lunch:

  • Boxed lunch atop Tumamoc Hill—an Early Agricultural period/Hohokam village and trincheras site

Afternoon

  • Ethnobotany walk at Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
  • Picture Rocks petroglyph site
  • Preclassic period Los Morteros ballcourt village

Day 3 (11/7/08, Friday)

Artist's reconstruction of Marana Mound

Morning

  • The Marana Community—an environmental and archaeological transect across a Hohokam landscape
  • Tacca—a large, late Hohokam village with numerous compounds and reservoirs

Lunch

  • Boxed lunch at Casa Grande National Monument, Coolidge AZ

Afternoon

  • Casa Grande National Monument with chapter author Douglas Craig 
  • Adamsville platform mound village along Casa Grande canal

Day 4 (11/8/08, Saturday)

Morning

  • Cerro Prieto trincheras site
  • Pueblo Grande platform mound and museum with chapter author David Doyel.

Lunch

  • The Farm at South Mountain
Aerial view of Mesa Grande

Afternoon

  • Mesa Grande (largest platform mound) and Hohokam canals
  • Huhugam Cultural Center/Museum
  • Use of Hohokam themes at Gila River Indian Community Hotel

Day 5 (11/9/08, Sunday)

Morning

  • San Xavier Mission (timed to avoid mass)
  • Tohono O’odham saguaro camp and other points of interest in Papagueria with chapter author Danny Lopez

Traditional O'odham Lunch

Afternoon

  • Tohono O’odham Cultural Center/Museum and trading post with O’odham crafts
  • Return to Tucson mid-afternoon

Reserve your spot today!

Please email Darlene Lizarraga or call her at 520-626-8381.