2025 AAC Fall Conference

Updates from Southern Arizona and Sonora

Friday, October 10 from 9:30 am to 5 pm

Saturday, October 11 from 9 am to 1 pm

Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, Arizona and simulcast on ZOOM

www.archaeologysouthwest.org, 281 N. Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ 85701

This year’s conference theme is "Updates from Southern Arizona and Sonora" with a focus on recent projects in southern Arizona and northern Mexico. If you are interested, there are three talk options available:

a 5-minute digital poster lightning talk;
a 10-minute project update; or
a 15-minute research talk.

If you are interested in presenting, email the following information to aacpresident@azarchaeology.org by September 5, 2025:

Author(s) with affiliation.
The talk option you are interested in.
Title of your talk.
Two keywords that describe your talk.
An abstract of no more than 100 words.

AAC strives to ensure that all presentations are developed and presented in an appropriate and respectful way. Presentations with drawings, photographs, or other visual depictions of human remains or funerary objects will not be allowed.

AAC will host additional events for students and recent graduates on Saturday, October 11. The Saturday events are developed to provide students with mentoring, training, and skills that would be useful resume builders for cultural resource management jobs. Spaces for Saturday's events are limited. Contact aacpresident@azarchaeology.org for details and availability.

In-person attendance has been sold out. Only tickets to view the virtual live-stream are still available.

Conference Program

Friday, October 10

Check out the conference abstract here.

Final Program

Time	Author(s)	Title
9:30 AM	Christopher Caseldine	Welcome
9:40 AM	Steve Nash	ASW Welcome
9:50 AM	Anthony Masinton	Data Re-use in the Digital Archive of Huhugam Archaeology and the Mimbres Pottery Images Digital Database
10:00 AM	James M. Heidke and James M. Vint	Early Agricultural Period Figurines: Construction Methods, Physical Appearance, Dating, and Some Thoughts on Their Place in Farmaging Communities
10:15 AM	Jay D. Franklin et al.	Obsidian Provenance and Lithic Assemblage Formation at AZ BB:9:32(ASM), Eastern Tucson Basin, Arizona
10:30 AM	Zithlaly Vega and Hunter M. Claypatch	A Contact Zone, a Central Zone, or a Pit Stop?: Temporal Changes in Plain Ware Production along the Arizona-Sonora Border
10:45 AM	Ismael Sánchez-Morales and Guadalupe Sanchez	Hayden’s Collection from El Pinacate Revisited: Implications for the Study of Early Human Occupations in Sonora
10:55 AM	Break
11:10 AM	Douglas R. Mitchell et al.	The Papaguería Obsidian Study: A GIS Analysis of Spatial Patterns in Southwestern Arizona and Northwestern Sonora
11:25 AM	Jaye Smith et al.	Updated Research on the Ray Robinson Collection: Cork (Bandelier) Site (AZ CC:1:7 ASM) in the Eastern Safford Basin, Arizona
11:40 AM	Joseph A. Bryce et al.	Recent Archaeological Investigations within the San Carlos Safford Area of Southeast Arizona
11:55 AM	Sean Hammond	Developing the new SSP eLearning Classroom Curriculum
12:05 PM	Lunch
1:30 PM	Thatcher Seltzer-Rogers	Recent Archaeological Research into the Aravaipa-Sulphur Springs Area of Southeastern Arizona
1:45 PM	Aaron M. Wright and Andy Laurenzi	Stairways to Heaven? Hillside Linear Clearings in the Southern Southwest
2:00 PM	Joseph S. Crary et al.	Preliminary Investigative Results for the Rapid Spread of Unprecedented, Large-Scale Production of Slipped Redware from North-Central Arizona to the Papaguería during the Terminal Eleventh Century AD
2:15 PM	Emily Thurman	Interregional Continuity: Long-Term Spondylus Use in Southern Arizona, Sonora, and Beyond
2:30 PM	Christopher E. Rayle	WSP Archaeology in Arizona
2:35 PM	Justin Mortensen and Hoski Schaafsma	Eyes in the Sky: Composite Aerial Reconstructions of Canal System 1
2:50 PM	Break
3:05 PM	Christopher Caseldine	Irrigation Infrastructure as Artifacts: Ancestral O'Odham Irrigation in the Lower Salt River Valley
3:20 PM	Christopher Schwartz et al.	PMAP
3:35 PM	Hoski Schaafsma and Justin Mortensen	Dusting off the Late Classic
3:50 PM	Joseph S. Crary et al.	Status of Archaeological Research Conducted within the Lower Verde Area of Central Arizona
4:05 PM	Stephen Germick et al.	Unpublished Legacy Archaeological Investigations in the Tonto Globe Area of East-Central Arizona
4:20 PM	John R. Welch et al.	Cultural Landscape Studies Bridge Archaeocentric and Holistic Approaches to Impact Assessments
4:35 PM	Hunter M. Claypatch	From the Land of the Purple Pottery People: Community-Engaged Archaeology as Liberatory Praxis along the U.S. - Mexico Border
5:00 PM	Happy Hour

Saturday, October 11

Field trips and workshops geared towards students of archaeology

Capacity of each workshop/field trip: 15 spots, with 8 reserved for students; first-come, first-served.

Since space is limited, separate registration is required.

To register, email AAC@azarchaeology.org, and indicate which workshop(s)/field trip you are interested in, and whether you are a student.

1) 9 a.m. - 11 a.m.: "Geoarchaeology of the Santa Cruz River" field trip led by Gary Huckleberry

View a description of this field trip here.

Happy Hour

Location: Pueblo Vida Brewing Taproom

115 E. Broadway Blvd., Tucson, AZ 85701 - approximately an 11 minute walk or 3 minute drive from Archaeology Southwest

Time: Friday, October 10 at 5 p.m.

2025 Arizona Archaeological Council

Graduate by Hilton Tucson	Blenman Inn
Hotel McCoy	AC Hotel by Marriott Tucson Downtown

El Charro Cafe Downtown	BOCA by Chef Maria Mazon
La Chingada Cocina Mexicana	Cafe a la C'Art
Time Market	Seis Kitchen
CERES Pasta

2025 AAC Fall Conference

Updates from Southern Arizona and Sonora

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Conference Program

Friday, October 10