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Wildlife Along the Trail
Did you know that the PGM interpretive trail is more than a half mile long in its entirety? Twice around the trail in the morning is a wonderful way to start the day, especially because you get to see...
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How Do You Mend a Broken... Pot?
One of Pueblo Grande Museum’s primary responsibilities is to preserve our site and our collections for future generations. Preventative conservation is one way we accomplish this task. The objective of...
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Hohokam Experience Summer Program 2012: A Historic Partnership
This year the Pueblo Grande Museum is partnering with the Rosson House Museum to bring you a full experience over time, from the prehistoric to the historic, in each of our summer programs. This four...
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Rabbit Bones and Ancient Environments
Where do rabbits go when they die? In the case of ancient rabbits from Pueblo Grande, many ended up in large middens (trash piles) after they found their way into the dinner bowls of pre-Hispanic...
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Things PGM Collections Staff Do For Researchers
One of our main purposes in Collections is to facilitate research. A couple of months ago, Andrew the Researcher (author of the previous blog) came in to look at our rabbit bones; he requested that we...
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My name is Heather, and I am a junior in college studying History with minors in Public History and Spanish. I am interning this summer at Pueblo Grande Museum in the education department, but I will...
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Termites, and Beetles, and Hohokam Houses... OH MY!!!
Along the outside trail at Pueblo Grande Museum, visitors encounter two small clusters of replica Hohokam dwellings. The Hohokam people mostly lived around the main platform mound when they inhabited...
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To Exhibit or Not to Exhibit
What goes into creating or adding to an exhibit? Who selects the objects to be displayed and how does he or she choose? To answer these questions, and many more, I recently spoke with the Curator of...
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Keeping the Platform Mound Clean
The Pueblo Grande rain gauge indicates we’ve had about 1.78 inches of rain since May. There have been some impacts to the platform mound as a result, though the damage overall has not been too bad. Jim...
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Something New Every Time
Recently, I had the opportunity to venture out on a tour of the Pueblo Grande site. I was excited to reacquaint myself with the area and learn about the Hohokam people who built and lived in/on the...
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A Career in Collections?
This past June, I volunteered at the Pueblo Grande Museum with the collections staff (Laura, Lindsey, and Holly) in hopes of learning something about how a museum cares for their collections and seeing...
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Arachnids at PGM or Spidey-sense and Sensibility
Some of you might have seen the animals that call Pueblo Grande home along the trail. There are the more obvious ones, like birds and lizards, but there are also the less obvious ones, like insects and...
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Rain Drops Keep Falling on... Our Mound
Since the rainy season began in mid-July, Pueblo Grande has received 3.56 inches of rain. Multiple storms during the month of August hit the site especially hard. Drop boxes were submerged in water....
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Mesa Grande Groundbreaking
The sites of Mesa Grande and Pueblo Grande are similar in many ways. They were both large and important villages in their day. They are both listed on the National Register of Historic Places. They...
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Macaws Come to PGM
Photo Courtesy of Liberty WingsJoin Pueblo Grande Museum and Chris Biro on Saturday, October 27th from 10am to 2 pm for an amazing free flight display featuring beautiful macaws, sun conures and...
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Celebrate National Archaeology Day at Pueblo Grande Museum
Join Pueblo Grande Museum and over 100 archaeological organizations in the U.S., Canada, and abroad on October 20, 2012 in celebrating the 2nd Annual National Archaeology Day. Pueblo Grande Museum...
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How do you Date a Canal?
On Saturday, October 27, an interdisciplinary research team lead by Dr. David Abbott, ASU professor and Hohokam archaeologist, visited Pueblo Grande. Dr. Abbott is well-known for his contributions to...
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36th Annual Indian Market & Featured Artist Kathryn Yauney
The 36th Annual Pueblo Grande Museum Indian Market, hosted by the Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary, will be held at the Pueblo Grande Museum on December 8 and 9. The Market schedule will be Saturday,...
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Flashin’ Signs
Here at PGM we make a lot of our exhibit signage in-house. Museums are particular about many of the materials used in an exhibit. For our signs, we use adhesive materials that activate using either...
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Missions Tour of Southern Arizona
Pueblo Grande Museum Auxiliary is excited to offer you a tour of the missions of Southern Arizona. The tour will be conducted by Across Arizona Tours and will depart from Pueblo Grande Museum in...
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