Free Online Talk with scholar Hunter Claypatch, PhD, 27 September | Event in Dragoon, Arizona | AllEvents

Free Online Talk with scholar Hunter Claypatch, PhD

Amerind Museum

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Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm (GMT+00:00)

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2100 N Amerind Rd, Dragoon, AZ 85609-2002, United States, Dragoon, Arizona

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Free Online Talk with scholar Hunter Claypatch, PhD
Join us on Saturday, September 27, 2025 at 11:00 am (AZ time) for an online talk, One Sherd at a Time: Seriating Ceramics from Paloparado, an Important Precolonial Site Near the Arizona-Sonora Border with Scholar Hunter Claypatch, PhD

The archaeological site of Paloparado is located within present-day Santa Cruz County, Arizona. It was excavated in the 1950s by Charles Di Peso and the Amerind Foundation. Although fundamental for reconstructing the occupational history of the Arizona-Sonora borderlands, the excavation was conducted with little prior knowledge of regional ceramics and many of Di Peso’s original interpretations have long been refuted. Through Amerind’s Emerging Scholar Residency, Claypatch applied ceramic insights that were unknown in the 1950s to conducted a systematic reanalysis of Paloparado’s pottery. Coupled with previously unpublished site data, this research reconstructs the occupational history of Paloparado and demonstrates the presence of largely unmixed Pre-Classic (pre-1150 CE) house deposits.

Hunter M. Claypatch received his Ph.D. from Binghamton University in 2022. He is a ceramicist who has worked extensively with precolonial pottery on both sides of the U.S. and Mexico international border. He specializes in Trincheras tradition of northern Sonora and the precolonial inhabitants of present-day Santa Cruz County, Arizona. His research applies traditional seriations, practice theory, and models for cultural connectivity to reconstruct Indigenous lifeways. He currently serves as president-elect for the Arizona Archaeological Council and as a professor at Pima Community College, in Tucson, Arizona.


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Free Online Talk with scholar Hunter Claypatch, PhD, 27 September | Event in Dragoon, Arizona | AllEvents
Free Online Talk with scholar Hunter Claypatch, PhD
Sat, 27 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm