• Featured Event

    Art with an Archaeologist

    Free admission and art activities for kids on 2nd Saturdays! Join us for family-friendly activities in our classroom, where you can create your own art with an archaeologist, become a junior archaeologist with our miniature excavation units, and curl up…

  • Intern and Volunteer Blog

    Obsidian: The Smoking Mirror

    Blog post by Linda Coulson, SDAC Volunteer Obsidian is a beautiful and highly functional material that is one of the few substances utilized by humans throughout history (Ryan 2024). It is a material that is found within the artifact collections…

  • GIS Projects

    NRHP StoryMap

    Last fall, intern Alana Hansen’s Geographic Information Systems (GIS) department project focused on connecting the National Register of Historic Places in the San Diego region. The purpose of her project was to create a user-friendly guide to San Diego history,…

  • Exhibits

    Artifact of the Week: Pottery Sherds

    Indigenous peoples of Southern California have been creating and pit-firing clay pottery for thousands of years. Prehistorically, two pottery wares were constructed in the region. The inhabitants of the peninsular mountains produced Tizon brown ware while people in the Colorado…