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460 W Finnie Flat Road
Camp Verde, AZ 86322 United States Get Directions
928-593-0364
http://www.verdevalleyarchaeology.org/
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Chiles & Chocolate: Sweet and Spicy Foods in the American West with Christine Glenn/Sandy Sunseri

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Come have a taste of the rich and savory history of these food favorites, explore how early peoples used them, and how they have evolved and spread to all corners of the world. Food is a portal into culture and can convey a range of cultural meaning including occasion, social status, ethnicity, and wealth depending […]

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Why Arizona Dark Skies Matter with Matthew Goodwin

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Flagstaff, Arizona was the world’s first community designated an International Dark Sky Place for its active efforts reduce light pollution and protect the visibility of the night sky. There are now over 130 dark-sky communities, places, and parks globally. Arizona alone has 17 dark-sky places, which is more than any other country in the world. […]

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Dia de los Muertos Storytelling with Zarco Guerrero

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Dia de Los Muertos is a highly celebrated and significant holiday held throughout Mexico, Latin America and the Southwest. It is a day when homage is paid with prayers, offerings of food and the building of altars to those who have gone before us. Join Zarco and his unique masked characters as they celebrate Día […]

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Southwest Rock Calendars and Ancient Time Pieces with Allen Dart

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Native Americans in the U.S. Southwest developed sophisticated skills in astronomy and predicting the seasons, centuries before non-Indian peoples entered the region. In this presentation archaeologist Allen Dart discusses the petroglyphs at Picture Rocks, the architecture of the “Great House” at Arizona’s Casa Grande Ruins, and other archaeological evidence of ancient southwestern astronomy and calendrical […]

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A Boot in the Door: Pioneer Women Archaeologists of Arizona

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

The men who explored Arizona are legends in the history of the region and of anthropology, but what about the women who accompanied them or explored by themselves?  Did you know that Matilda Coxe Stevenson was a member of the first official government survey of Canyon de Chelly or that Emma Mindeleff surveyed ruins in […]

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Epics of the American Southwest: Hopi, Dine and Hispanic Narratives of Heros and Heroines in Mythic Literature

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Too often the claim is heard that there is very little ancient history or literature in the United States. Nothing could be further from the truth. Whether it is the Hopi epics of the wanderings of Long Sash and the exploits of the Koshare twins; the Navajo legends that connect the cultures of the Southwest […]

Set in Stone but Not in Meaning: Southwestern Indian Rock Art

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Ancient 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?  Dart illustrates how petroglyph and pictograph styles changed through time and over different regions of the American […]

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The Eagle and the Archaeologists: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Southwest Aerial Survey

Verde Valley Archaeology Center 460 W Finnie Flat Road, Camp Verde, AZ, United States

Charles Lindbergh is best known for his famous 1927 flight across the Atlantic Ocean. But few realize that Lindbergh and his wife, Anne, played a brief but important role in archaeology. In 1929 they teamed up with noted archaeologist Alfred Kidder to conduct an unprecedented aerial photographic survey of Southwest prehistoric sites and geologic features […]

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