The Verde Valley hosts a unique and varied representation of prehistoric cultural sites. It is the host to two National Park Service National Monuments, three U.S. Forest Service Heritage Sites, five protected sites owned by the Archaeological Conservancy, the Yavapai-Apache Nation, and over 2,500 archaeological sites.

This course is an introduction to this cultural heritage. There are eleven lessons. Each lesson is a video with the ability to download the PDF of the lesson.

The cost is $45, with various discounts for members.

The Verde Valley hosts a unique and varied representation of prehistoric cultural sites. There are over 450 recorded rock art sites in the Sedona/Verde Valley area. Who made them? How have they lasted this long? What do they mean?

This course is intended to be a useful and thought-provoking introduction to the vast, scattered and sometimes unpublished literature on rock art, with specific focus on images and styles found in the Sedona/Verde Valley area. There are seven lessons. Each lesson is a video with the ability to download the PDF of the lesson.

The cost is $45, with various discounts for members.

COMING IN AUGUST. This class will review the current literature on archaeoastronomy in the American Southwest, discuss important issues relating to the naked eye observation of celestial objects in the night sky, and cover basic recordation techniques and methods.

Mesoamerican archaeoastronomy will be included because of the influence of Mesoamerican cultures on the Southwest.

Three types of archaeoastronomy phenomena will be studied: (1) Alignments of petroglyphs, buildings, cairns, or trails with celestial phenomena (sunrise, sunset, moonrise, moonset, planets, constellations or star clusters, etc.); (2) light and shadow interaction with rock art panels during certain times of the year; and (3) recorded oral traditions, songs, poems, and other ethnographic data that provide cultural context for understanding prehistoric astronomy. There are eight lessons. Each lesson is a video with the ability to download the PDF of the lesson.

The cost is $75, with various discounts for members.