Upcoming Events
In the Spotlight
- New SCAS Meeting Location: Elks Lodge!
- Scotts Valley Display Project Update! (7/05/25)
- Scotts Valley Display Project Update! (10/24/24)
- SCAS Event: The Castro Adobe Tour (6.27.24)
- SCAS Outreach: Natural History Museum’s “Museum of the Macabre” event
- In Memory of Rob Edwards (1938-2023)
- A 10,000+/- year-old history story to be told – And we need your help!
ONLINE SPEAKER EVENT: Evan Elliott on “Gendered Grave Goods: Relationships between Gender-Associated Artifacts and Biological Sex in the Prehistoric San Francisco Bay Area”
Join SCAS for a talk by Evan Elliott on “Gendered Grave Goods: Relationships between Gender-Associated Artifacts and Biological Sex in the Prehistoric San Francisco Bay Area” DATE: November 19, 2020TIME: 7:00 – 8:00 PM (Pacific)**RSVP by 5:00 PM on November … Continue reading
ONLINE SPEAKER EVENT: Danielle Dadiego on “Local Adaptations to a Colonial Economy in Spanish La Florida”
Join SCAS for a talk by Danielle Dadiego on “Local Adaptations to a Colonial Economy in Spanish La Florida” DATE: October 15, 2020TIME: 7:00 – 8:00 PM (Pacific)**RSVP by 5:00 PM on October 15, 2020** RESERVATION ONLY & SPACE LIMITED, … Continue reading
ONLINE SPEAKER EVENT: Albert Knight on “The Burro Flats Traditional Cultural Property”
Join SCAS for a talk by Albert Knight on “The Burro Flats Traditional Cultural Property”. DATE: September 24, 2020TIME: 7:00 – 8:00 PM (Pacific)**RSVP by 5:00 PM on September 24, 2020**RESERVATION ONLY & SPACE LIMITED, WITH PREFERENCE TO CURRENT SCAS … Continue reading
Martin Rizzo: “Captain Coleto and the Yokuts”: The Formation of Social and Ethnic Hierarchies at Mission Santa Cruz
Join SCAS for a talk by Martin Rizzo entitled: “Captain Coleto and the Yokuts”: The Formation of Social and Ethnic Hierarchies at Mission Santa Cruz. The talk will be held on Thursday, February 13, 2020 at 7:30 pm at the … Continue reading
Austin Ringelstein: “On the Trail of Alice Ballard”: Stories and Archaeological finds from an African American Woman’s Homestead on the Margins of the Los Angeles Wilderness
Join SCAS for a talk by Austin Ringelstein entitled: “On the Trail of Alice Ballard”: Stories and Archaeological finds from an African American Woman’s Homestead on the Margins of the Los Angeles Wilderness. The talk will be held on January … Continue reading
David De Vries: “Soil Profile Data for Archaeological Interpretations”
Join the SCAS for a talk by David De Vries entitled: “Soil Profile Data for Archaeological Interpretations.” The talk will be held on December 12, 2019, at 7:30 pm at the Santa Cruz Live Oak Grange Hall at 1900 17th … Continue reading
Tom Keter: “The Environmental and Cultural History of the North Fork Eel River Watershed Trinity County, California”
Join SCAS for a talk by Tom Keter entitled: “The Environmental and Cultural History of the North Fork Eel River Watershed, Trinity County, California”. The talk will be held on November 14, 2019, at 7:30 pm at the Santa Cruz … Continue reading
Breck Parkman: “Digging the Sixties: An Archaeology of Hippies and Marines”
When people think of archaeologists, they often picture an Indiana Jones-type character toiling away amongst ancient ruins. Archaeology can be that and yet, it can be so much more. For almost 40 years, Breck Parkman has been constructing an archaeology of the 1960s – that time of tremendous social and political upheaval.
