PanGIS

09/30/2025

Non-members and guests interested in joining our presentation and to be admitted to the meeting. should email [email protected]

09/30/2025

The Island ChumashBehavioral Ecology and the Transition to AgricultureTaking the High Ground: The archaeology of Rapa, a fortified island in remote East Polynesia

09/10/2025

Celebrate California Archaeology Month 2025! The San Diego County Archaeological Society is proud to host our annual event in celebration of California archaeology month: Arch in the Park. This year’s Arch in the Park will be held on Saturday, October 18, 2025 from 10am-3pm. PanGIS will host a table with a hands-on activity and discuss how we contribute to the field of archaeology in San Diego County. This year after the Arch in the Park event, will be hosting the Southern Data Sharing event. This will be organized by the Society for California Archaeology and take place from 3pm-6pm. For more information visit their website: www.scahome.org

03/14/2025

Mark your calendars! The San Diego Archaeological Center Annual BBQ is coming up on April 26th. Guests will enjoy bottomless street tacos from Frida's Taqueria, craft beer from Pizza Port, wine from our neighbors at Rancho Guejito, and live bluegrass music by Probable Caws—all while connecting with fellow enthusiasts and colleagues. Activities include archery, atlatl throwing, opportunity drawings, lawn games, CRM firm tables, and more!
Tickets are available now, with 20% off for SDAC Members. https://sandiegoarchaeology.org/event/annual-bbq/
Many thanks to Pizza Port Brewing Company for being the event's beer sponsor and Rancho Guejito Vineyard for being our wine sponsor! 🍻🍷

02/07/2025

Forgotten San Diego: A Journey Through the Past
Join the California Preservation Foundation for an in-depth discussion with the author of Forgotten San Diego, where we’ll explore the inspiration behind the book and the journey of researching and curating its content. The conversation will dive into how the author and his co-author uncovered long-lost stories through vintage postcards, and what it was like piecing together the visual history of San Diego County over a century. Hear firsthand about the process of selecting images that represent the area’s transformation across decades.

They will also take a closer look at the stories behind some of the postcards, revealing the hidden corners of San Diego’s past. From unusual local tales to historical events that have since faded from the public’s memory, this conversation will provide a deeper understanding of the region’s fascinating evolution. Whether you're a San Diego local or someone interested in the past, this presentation promises to bring the county's forgotten history to life in a new and exciting way.
Online Event - Members & Partners and Non-Members FREE
Date: Feb 20, 2025
Time: 12:00 PM - 1:30 PM

California Preservation Foundation

01/22/2025

Chinese Historical Society of Southern California Program
February 5, 2025 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm https://chssc.org/event/february-2025-program/
In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, many Chinese immigrants in inland Southern California labored on Chinese-operated truck farms known locally as “Chinese gardens.” These vegetable farmers provided a variety of fresh produce to Chinese and non-Chinese urban residents. A landscape archaeology analysis of Chinese-operated farms around the cities of Riverside and San Bernardino reveals that Chinese truck farming shaped the built environment in both the United States and China, anti-immigration laws impacted the movement of Chinese laborers without American citizenship the most, and that vegetable farms became part of a racialized landscape where harassment by law enforcement was common. Chinese truck farmers made invaluable agricultural contributions to inland Southern California and created alliances with non-Chinese landlords, but ultimately their visibility on the landscape made them continual targets of race-based exclusion.

Bio: Laura Ng is a historical archaeologist who researches late nineteenth and early twentieth-century Chinese migrants and their transpacific lives. These migrants often lived in segregated communities, but they also migrated back and forth between the U.S. and villages in the Pearl River Delta region of China. Laura is currently investigating racism and transnationalism at Chinese truck farms in Southern California and at the Evanston and Rock Springs Chinatowns in rural Southwestern Wyoming; the latter two sites are community-engaged projects conducted in collaboration with Dr. Dudley Gardner and Chinese.

01/06/2025

Free ZOOM lecture series offered by The Archaeological Conservancy

Save these dates! Our Spring 2025 Virtual Lecture series will feature excellent presentations involving research and projects at preserves across the country.

February 6 you'll hear from Dr. Kenneth Sassaman as he discusses our Stallings Island Preserve, one of the nation's most significant archaeological sites of Indigenous history.

March 12 you'll hear from Dr. Robert Wall and Dr. Zachary Singer about their research at Barton preserve. This session is a follow-up to last fall's presentation from Brian Fritz about the Paleo-Digger!

April 10 you'll hear from Tom Trow and Franky Jackson as they share about a prairie restoration project at our Grand Meadow Chert Quarry in Minnesota.

Learn more and register for the Zoom webinars here: https://bit.ly/TheArchConsVL

11/01/2024

November is National Native American Heritage Month, which acknowledges Indigenous histories, cultures, languages and traditions of the peoples of Turtle Island, known by settlers as North America. The U.S. Department of the Interior has designated this year’s theme as “Celebrating Tribal Sovereignty and Identity,” which ensures that decisions about Tribes with regards to their property and peoples are made with their participation and consent. San Diego County has the most tribal reservations and governments in the United States, who hail from cultural groups, including the Kumeyaay, Luiseño, Cahuilla, and Cupeño.

Ahead of National Native American Heritage Month, on October 25, President Biden formally apologized for the U.S. government’s role in running more than 523 Indian boarding schools across the U.S., with the express goal of stripping Indigenous Peoples of their traditions, values, languages, religions, histories, and cultures in order assimilate them to American values. Not only were children taken from their families and communities and forced to assimilate, many were also subjected to physical and sexual violence. Biden’s acknowledgement of the U.S. participation in Indian cultural genocide by forcibly and systematically removing tens of thousands of Indigenous children from their families and placing them in boarding schools is the first time a sitting U.S. president has done so. The boarding schools ran from 1819 to 1969.

For more information on President Biden’s announcement:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/25/biden-apologizes-indian-boarding-schools

For more information on Native American Heritage Month:
https://www.bia.gov/NNAHM

President’s historic remarks, alongside Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, given at Gila Crossing school near Phoenix

09/30/2024

Join PanGIS as we celebrate California Archaeology Month at the San Diego County Archaeological Society Arch in the Park! Our goal is to educate the public about archaeology, and to provide information on various career and volunteer opportunities with local archaeological companies, museums, universities, and organizations. Typically, more than 30 vendors take part in Arch in the Park. Arch in the Park is ideal for students and budding archaeologists to network, as well as family fun. This year’s event will be October 19, 2024!