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Wupatki National Monument

Citadel and Nalakihu Pueblos
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Juan Bautista de Anza National Historic Trail

Mission San Agustín del Tucson
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National Center for Preservation Technology and Training

Delineating Maritime Cultural Landscapes at National Parks
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Mr. Ho has conducted underwater archaeological site documentation, exploratory marine survey, and a variety of submerged resource science through the NPS system and with international partners in Africa, South America, Central America, and the Pacific Islands. His interest and focus are to aid parks and resource managers in their efforts to locate, document and interpret submerged cultural resources from pre-history through the historic period through today.

Casa Grande and the Antiquities Act
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Although it was built close to 700 years ago, the Casa Grande remains one the tallest structures in the town of Coolidge, Arizona. The Casa Grande is probably the most significant surviving example of Hohokam building techniques and architecture made from caliche, a concrete-like mixture of sand, clay, and calcium carbonate (limestone).

Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

A New Way of Documenting and Imaging Cultural Resources
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In 2018, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument received a grant from the Western National Parks Association to better document its cultural resources. This grant included funding for a small project that involved conservation and cleaning of the interior walls of the Great House, a 14th century Hohokam multi-story earthen structure that is the centerpiece of the park, followed by reflectance transformation imaging (RTI) photography. 

Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Ajo Mountain Drive Stop 6
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Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument

Ajo Mountain Drive Stop 11
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Golden Gate National Recreation Area

How Far Out Was the Lightship?
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Now, let's take a moment to lean on this rail facing the vast Pacific Ocean. Take a moment to imagine the shipboard navigator working to bring the vessel safely to its destination. (Land-ho) The navigator would most assuredly have a dog-eared copy of the Lighthouse Board's annual publication, Light List.

Tonto National Monument

Essential for Life Wayside
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Casa Grande Ruins National Monument

National Park Getaway: Casa Grande Ruins National Monument
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Located halfway between Phoenix and Tucson, Casa Grande Ruins National Monument is a small yet powerful site to explore when visiting Arizona. Hundreds of years ago the Ancestral Sonoran Desert People at Casa Grande Ruins built communities, raised families, hunted and gathered food, and eventually turned to agriculture to sustain the growing Hohokam Culture.

Arizona: Crosscut Powerplant
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Beginning around 300 B.C., the Hohokam practiced irrigated agriculture in the Salt River Valley of Arizona. Hohokam farmers dug hundreds of miles of canals, some as much as 30 feet wide and 10 feet deep – a remarkable accomplishment achieved with only hand tools and human labor in this land of extremes.

Hohokam Culture
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The Hohokam were, in the words of archeologist Emil Haury, “masters of the desert.” Their cultural pattern existed from the first years A.D. through about A.D. 1450, barely 90 years before Spanish explorers arrived in the Southwest. During this time, they achieved remarkable successes.

Southwest River Environments
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In the arid Southwest, water means life, and prehistorically, rivers were the lifelines of the people.

Southern Basin and Range
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The Southern Basin and Range is an extension of the Basin and Range Province centered on Nevada and the Great Basin and extending from southern Oregon to western Texas, and into northwest Mexico.