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Friends of the R.H. Johnson Library

April 2023

Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Rock Art with Allen Dart

April 28 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
SOCIAL HALL WEST of R.H. Johnson Recreation Center, 19803 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd
Sun City West, AZ United States
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Ancient American Indian petroglyphs (symbols carved or pecked on rocks) and pictographs (rock paintings) are claimed by some to be forms of writing for which meanings are known. But are such claims supported by archaeology or by Native Americans? Archaeologist Allen Dart illustrates how petroglyph and pictograph styles changed through time and over different parts of the U.S. Southwest both before and after non-Indian peoples entered the region, and discusses how even the same rock art symbol may be interpreted…

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August 2023

Desert Rats, River Runners, and Canyon Crawlers: Four Arizona Explorers with Gregory McNamee

August 30 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Lecture Hall Sun CIty West, 19803 N. R.H. Johnson Blvd
Sun City West, AZ United States
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Francisco Garcés, a Franciscan friar, arrived in what is now Arizona in 1768. Assigned to the church at San Xavier del Bac south of present-day Tucson, he traveled widely throughout Arizona and California, charting overland routes that later travelers would follow. Near where Garcés would meet his death in 1781, an American soldier named Joseph Christmas Ives embarked on an arduous expedition up the Colorado River, one of the first Americans to see what he called the Big Canyon. A…

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