Exhibits
Changing Landscapes: A Closer Look at Baby Canyon Pueblo
October 6, 2012 - April 30, 2013
The ASU Deer Valley Rock Art Center is excited to introduce Changing Landscapes: A Closer Look at Baby Canyon Pueblo, an exhibit that looks at prehistoric agricultural adaptations for life in the desert. Based on the interdisciplinary research of Melissa Kruse-Peeples of Arizona State University’s School of Human Evolution and Social Change, this exhibit closely examines how the people of Baby Canyon Pueblo modified their landscapes to produce food during all seasons.
Positioned within the Agua Fria National Monument, Baby Canyon’s spectacular landscapes are captured by a series of panoramic photographs featured in the exhibit.
Learn more about ASU's research at Agua Fria National Monument>
Leaving Marks: The Rock Art and Archaeology of Deer Valley
Permanent Exhibition | Ongoing
For thousands of years, people have left their mark by pecking over 1,500 symbols into the black basalt boulders at Deer Valley. We do not know why. As visitors, we are the latest people to change the land here and express our cultural values. Our presence in this landscape connects us to the people who were here before and to the marks they left behind.
Explore the Deer Valley Rock Art Center. You're experience will include an orientation film, interactive computer kiosks and hands-on activity stations as well as thought-provoking information.
This exhibition was made possible through a grant from the Arizona Humanities Council.
The Green Room
Permanent Exhibition | Ongoing
In The Green Room, kids and their families can find information on the people, plants and animals that have lived on this site for more than 7,000 years, as well as fun facts about population, cultural traditions, and similarities in how people lived thousands of years ago, and how we live today.
Activity stations include: a storybook reading area; a computer station with games, recipes + videos; a desert supermarket; a desert hardware store for learning about ancient technologies; a draw-your-own-postcard station; and a station for learning about ways in which plants and animals adapt to our hot and dry desert environment.
This exhibition was made possible through a grant from the Phoenix Suns Charities.