Join AAHS on December 9th, from 10:00 am- 11:30 am for a tour of the Murray Springs Clovis Kill Site north of Sierra Vista. The site is one of the few excavated Clovis sites in North America. The Clovis culture dates from 12,000-14,000 years ago and is a Paleo-American culture characterized by large fluted projectile points and...
Archaeological data provide the only direct source of information for exploring the structure and dynamics of social systems beyond the historic record. Not only are archaeologists increasingly able to replicate the findings of other social scientists, we are also beginning to discover patterns in human societies that transcend the time scales typically considered in comparative...
When the Spanish collected Native historical accounts of the preconquest Toluca Valley for a series of 16th-century court cases, the Triple Alliance-Aztec conquest of the region, a generation earlier, featured prominently in local narratives. The Toluca Valley, immediately west of the Aztec heartland in Central Mexico, was not one of the growing empire’s first conquests,...