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Summer History Talks: The Actual Road to Cibola Archaeology's Unique Contribution to Understanding the Coronado Expedition in Arizona

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Virtual Screening Room
Tuesday, Jul 1, 2025 12:00 PM
Arizona / Mountain Standard Time
Join the Arizona Historical Society and Dr. Deni Seymour for an installment of AHS Summer History Talks: Spanish Period in Arizona!

With the addition of the 13th site to the Coronado Expedition route through Arizona it's safe to say that our understanding of the expedition has grown exponentially. Six different site types have now been defined along Arizona's Coronado expedition routes, including the main route between Nogales and the Gila River. Even the relatively small overnight encampments exhibit an informative array of evidence. When compared to the largest site (the settlement of San Geronimo III or suya), a rich narrative about the expedition as a whole emerges.

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Deni Seymour. Ph.D. is an archaeologist and ethnohistorian whose research has focused on the Spanish colonial period in the American Southwest, with emphasis on the Native peoples at the time of first contact (especially the O’odham, Apache, Jocome, and Manso), and she has conducted extensive work on presidio and mission/visita sites. For the past five years she has focused largely on the 1539-1542 Coronado expedition. She has identified more Coronado expedition sites in Arizona than all others known throughout the greater Southwest, extending the trail from Nogales, AZ to the Gila River. Most recently she has published eight peer-reviewed articles on her expedition-related discoveries, which have also resulted in a documentary film that is available on PBS entitled, Coronado: The New Evidence.