Arizona Water Use from Prehistory to the Present

Date and Time for this Past Event

• Thursday, Jun 20, 2024  6pm - 7:30pm

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Join historian Jim Turner to explore humankind’s water use and food supply interactions with Arizona’s ecology from Clovis culture hunter-gatherers to prehistoric irrigation canals, contemporary Hopi and Tohono O’odham dry farming, and present-day American farmers. We will examine how overhunting and climate change affected the woolly mammoth populations and the agriculture experiments that followed. From early attempts to increase the growth of wild plants to some the earliest irrigation canal projects in North America the Southwest’s indigenous people developed methods to survive the regions’ harsh climate. The Hopi and Tohono O’odham cultures not only altered their physical environment but developed a cultural belief system that espoused frugality and harmony with their natural surroundings. This presentation also describes major water use legislation over more than three centuries.

This event is part of our Environmental Justice and BIPOC Communities Series, and is made possible by Arizona Humanities (AH) and the Arizona State Library, Records & Archives.

To request a reasonable accommodation for any type of disability, please call 928-213-2330. Three days prior notice is requested.