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San Diego Archaeological Center
The San Diego Archaeological Center is a nonprofit curation facility and museum where visitors can learn the story of how people have lived in San Diego County for the past 12,000 years. Visit our museum, which is located in the picturesque San Pasqual Valley in Escondido, one mile east of the San Diego Safari Park. In addition to its role as a museum, the Center…
Living Room Lecture: Santee Greens Revisited
The site of Santee Greens aka Michagua, a Late Holocene village over 29,000 square meters, was originally radiocarbon dated in 1980 and 1981. It showed two occupation periods, AD 760 to AD 1030 and AD 1735 to AD 1890. With…
Living Room Lecture: Prehistory of Baja California
During the 40+ years Don Laylander has studied the enigmatic peninsula’s prehistory, our understanding of it has grown and evolved. He will discuss his views on where we stand now on some of the major issues in that story, including…
Shutler Women in Archaeology Fund
The Dr. Elizabeth Shutler Women in Archaeology Fund (SWAF) was established by Dr. Shutler’s family to honor her exemplary career and to sponsor women conducting research projects using collections curated at the San Diego Archaeological Center (SDAC). Next application deadline:…
Historic Horseshoes
Historical archaeology connects places, things, and issues from the past or present using not only what is found during an excavation, but also written records and oral traditions that then help inform and contextualize cultural materials. During the spring of…
Oh My Fluffle!
Dr. Arty Fax’s Archy Facts is a blog introducing kids to the exciting world of archaeology! “What in the world is a fluffle?” you might ask. Well, this funny little word means a group of wild rabbits. It turns…
Fall 2021 E-Newsletter
Read about artifacts recovered from inside a crocodile in our archaeology news for kids, learn how you can be a part of our next exhibit, meet our new Collections Technician, and more in the latest edition of The Curator. Read…
