2011 Arizona Archaeological Council
Fall Conference

“From Without and Within: Long-Distance Interactions, Culture Change, and Culture Contact in Arizona”

Friday, October 28, 2011
Arizona Historical Society Museum
Tucson, Arizona

The Board of Directors of the Arizona Archaeological Council (AAC) is pleased to announce the 2011 AAC Fall Conference. This year’s conference is being held in conjunction with the 69th Annual Plains Anthropological Conference which will be held across the street at the Marriott University Park Hotel in Tucson, October 26–29.

This is the first time the Plains Conference will be held outside of the Plains. As a benefit of membership, all AAC members who attend the 2011 AAC Fall Conference are invited to hear papers presented at the Plains Conference. For full benefits to the Plains Conference, including receptions and printed programs, AAC members must register for the Plains Conference. For more information about the Plains Conference, please visit http://www.pac69.com.

This year’s theme, “From Without and Within: Long-Distance Interactions, Culture Change, and Culture Contact in Arizona,” emphasizes archaeological research within Arizona that has an explicit focus on exploring regional or inter-regional interactions and relationships in the past. This theme also reflects our partnership with a regional conference devoted to understanding Plains history and prehistory by highlighting scales of human practice and behaviors that are often the focus of inter-regional studies in Southwest archaeology. 

AAC Fall Conference Schedule and Abstracts

AAC Fall Conference Schedule

AAC Fall Conference Venue

The AAC Fall Conference will be held in the Auditorium of the Arizona Historical Society Museum located at 949 E. 2nd St, Tucson, Arizona, 85719. 

The Museum is located just across the street from the University of Arizona campus in the Main Gate Square district. Museum parking is located in the Main Gate Garage (Parking Map.pdf). Please remember to have your parking validated at the front desk of the Museum.

All AAC Fall Conference attendees will receive free admission to the Museum exhibits on the day of the conference. 

AAC Conference Registration

As with past conferences, there will be no registration fee to attend the 2011 AAC Fall Conference.  Attendance is open to all current AAC members.  If you are not a member, but wish to attend the conference, you can sign up for membership for $30.00 on site.  We will gladly accept cash or check payments. All current members are also welcome to renew their membership for 2012 at the conference.

AAC Partnership with the Plains Conference

For AAC members wishing to attend the Plains Conference, you can either (1) attend the paper presentations or (2) register for the full slate of events that the Plains Conference is offering (including field trips, the conference banquet, and evening receptions).

If you wish to attend paper presentations only at the Plains Conference, please go to http://www.pac69.com/online-registration.html and scroll down to “Step Two: Complete Conference Registration Form.” Please fill out this form and submit your information.  Under “additional information or instructions” please state that you are an AAC paper-only registrant. Once at the conference, you can pick up a conference name tag and credentials at the Marriott University Park Hotel.
For those AAC members wishing to attend the full slate of Plains Conference events, please go to http://www.pac69.com/online-registration.html  and follow the instructions for online registration. We encourage all AAC members to register for the Plains Conference to take advantage of the all of events being offered!

Hotel

The Marriott University Park Hotel, just across the street from the Arizona Historical Society Museum is the conference hotel for this year’s event. Their beautiful facility is located at 880 East Second Street, Tucson, Arizona 85719, just one block west of the University of Arizona campus in the vibrant Main Gate Square dining, shopping, and entertainment district. In partnership with the Plains Conference, we have secured a conference room rate at the Marriott of $125/night, single or double occupancy. Click here or reference group code "antanta" when booking your rooms, online or at (520) 792-4100. The special rate is available only through September 25, but the rooms are already half-sold as of September 8. They are not sold out, but because our room block is limited, if any of the dates are unavailable at the preferred rate, the reservations page may say that all of your dates are unavailable. In that case, please book with the reservations desk directly and just tell them you're with the conference.

After the Conference ....

Join fellow AAC board members at an informal happy hour after the conference. 

When: 5:30 pm, October 28, 2011

Where: Gentle Ben's Brewing Company (http://g.co/maps/f5z65)