News Release

Allen Denoyer Presents for Casa Grande Ruins Annual Speaker Series February 5, 2020

Date: January 29, 2020
Contact: Dave Carney, 520-723-3172

COOLIDGE, AZ – On February 5, 2020 Casa Grande Ruins will host Allen Denoyer as part of its annual speaker series. The presentation will begin at noon on February 5 featuring Allen Denoyer who will present a lecture titled "Early Agriculture in Southern Arizona". The speaker series will continue every Wednesday at noon through March 11.

Allen Denoyer has been working as a professional archaeologist since the early 1990s. He has field experience throughout the Southwest and in the Rocky Mountains region. In the Tucson Basin, Allen excavated sites that helped define the early agricultural period in southern Arizona. In Wyoming and Colorado, Allen worked at Paleoindian sites, pre-contact sites, and historic campsites.

In this illustrated presentation, Allen Denoyer will speak about how discoveries made in Tucson’s Santa Cruz River floodplain are revealing aspects of people’s lives during the Early Agricultural period. He will share how these early farmers created and maintained their field systems and irrigation canals, and how people continued to use the floodplain for agriculture for the next 4,000 years.

The Speaker Series is funded by the Friends of Casa Grande Ruins National Monument (http://friendsofcasagranderuins.org/) with additional support from Arizona Humanities (https://azhumanities.org/). The program begins at 12:00 pm in the Casa Grande Ruins visitor center theater at 1100 W Ruins Drive, Coolidge AZ, 85128. There is no fee for the program, and entrance to Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is free.

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument protects the multi-story Great House and the ruins of other ancient structures built by the people of the Sonoran Desert over 800 years ago. 

The monument is open daily from 9:00 am to 4:00 pm, May through September, and from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm, October through April, except for Thanksgiving, Christmas, and Independence Day holidays.  Directions and additional information are available on the monument’s website, http://www.nps.gov/cagr. You may call [phone], or follow us on Facebook by searching for Casa Grande Ruins National Monument.
 

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