2016
01
Jun
Social Networks in the Late Precontact Southwest
Click here (opens as a PDF) to read the latest article on the project in the professional journal American Antiquity (Vol. 80, No. 1, 2015).
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, “social network” is a phrase heard or read almost daily—but social networks are a mainstay of the human experience...
more
2016
01
Jun
Migration and Change in the Southern Southwest
Banner image courtesy of Eastern Arizona College
The centuries between A.D. 1200 and 1540 were a time of great change in the Southwest. Deteriorating environmental conditions on the Colorado Plateau in the late 1200s led people to leave the Four Corners region. This movement of northern peoples i...
more
2016
27
May
Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park
Banner image by Scotwriter, courtesy of Wikipedia
Built in 1876, Yuma Territorial Prison held inmates for 33 years. Inmates were moved to a larger facility in Florence in 1909. At one point, the prison had the largest library (some 2,000 books) in the Arizona Territory! After use as a prison, the...
more
2016
27
May
Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park
Banner image by Ken Lund, via Flickr
The park is located on a portion of the grounds of the old U.S. Army Quartermaster Depot (QMD) established in 1864, on a bluff above the Colorado River. The QMD served as a storage yard and a military supply center for fourteen military posts in Arizona, New M...
more
2016
27
May
Tubac Presidio State Historic Park
"Six governments have existed at Tubac: New Spain, Mexico, the United States of America (when the Gadsden Purchase acquired the southern part of what is now Arizona on December 30, 1853), New Mexico Territory, The Confederate States of America, and the Arizona Territory (State of Arizona).
"The S...
more
2016
27
May
Tombstone Courthouse State Historic Park
Banner image by Matthew A. Lynn, via Wikimedia Commons
The two-story Victorian courthouse was built in 1882. A fine example of Territorial style architecture, it has been converted to a museum dedicated to the legacy of the west's wildest mining town.
more
2016
27
May
Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
"Few places echo with as much historical resonance as the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site. For me, that beckoning amplifies with each visit. Although this low outcrop is a bit off the beaten path, it hosts one of North America’s densest concentrations of petroglyphs. Most of these were authored by an...
more
2016
27
May
Fort Bowie National Historic Site
Banner image by Wilson44691, via Wikimedia Commons
Fort Bowie commemorates the bitter, decades-long conflict between the Chiricahua Apaches and the U.S. military in the late 1800s. From the parking lot, it is a 3-mile roundtrip hike to the visitor center and fort. Along the way, visitors pass the...
more
2016
27
May
Fairbank Historic Townsite
Banner image by The Old Pueblo, via Wikimedia Commons
Fairbank is protected within the San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area (NCA) along the San Pedro River. The Bureau of Land Management acquired the land in 1986. When the railroad came in 1881, Fairbank became an important depot on the...
more
2016
27
May
Charleston and Millville Sites
Banner image by StellarD, via Wikimedia Commons
Charleston was established as a settlement for people who worked in Millville refining the silver ore that came from Tombstone's mines. Population peaked at about 400 at the height of the silver boom in the early 1880s. The community began to declin...
more
Show More