Archaeological Open-Air Museum

The mission is part of the larger La Purísima Mission State Historic Park, part of the California State Parks system, and along with Mission San Francisco de Solano is one of only two of the Spanish missions in California that is no longer under the control of the Catholic Church. It is currently the only example in California of a complete Spanish Catholic mission complex.

The archaeological site of Numancia is situated south of the village of Garray in the region of Castilla y Leon, Spain, and is one of the most known battle sites during the wars between Rome and the Celtiberians.

Los Millares is one of the most important sites of the European Chalcolithic. It is located north of the town of Almeria, placed in the southern coast of Spain, in the region of Andalusia. The settlement dates from 3200 to 2200 BC and was protected by four circles of walls with circular towers. Its necropolis, with over 100 collective tombs, has no comparison in Europe. The site gives a name to one of the Chalcolitic (Copper Age) cultures of Europe.

The archaeological park of Los Enebralejos is located a few kilometres north of the village of Pradena, in the region of Castilla y Leon, central Spain. The centre of the park is the Cave, discovered in 1932, in which paintings and tombs from the Chalcolithic were discovered.

Enclosed in the industrial southern part of the town of Lorca (Murcia), the Archaeological Park of Los Cipreses occupies the site of an important settlement which dates back to the 3rd millennium BC, and belongs to the so called El Algar Culture. It had eight huts of oval shape, half dug in the soil and with stone walls. The settlement was discovered in 1992 during building works for the local sports centre and was therefore excavated.

Close to the site of the famous Roman town of Juliobriga, in Cantabria, in the small village of Retortillo, the Domus museum provides the interpretation centre for the Roman town. Juliobriga was founded in the age of Octavian and was abandoned in the half of the 3rd century AD. The site was explored since its identification (end of the 18th century) and was excavated in many sessions providing an archaeological area of great interest and beauty.

The incredible settlement, placed on a white stone cylindrical spur, is the most ancient to be open to the public in Andalucía. It is located few kilometres west of the village of Galera. The site dates back to the culture of Argar (1800 BC).

The archaeological park is situated east of the village of Campo Lameiro, in Galicia in the west of Spain. The park is part of the project “four parks for four provinces” launched by Rede Galega do Patrimonio Arqueolóxico and was the first to be realized with funding from regional and ministerial organs.

The archaeological and natural Park of Campa-Torres is located 7 km from the town of Gijón in the west side of its bay in the region of Asturias, northern Spain. It was one of the first results of the project “archaeological parks” by the Ministry of Culture in 1989 and brings together high archaeological value and striking natural surroundings.

By AD 900, around the time Cohoninas lived at Clover Ruin, they were probably growing crops such as corn, beans and squash. Cohonina sites extended north of the San Francisco Peaks at this period, as well as to the south rim of the Grand Canyon and into the Inner Gorge. The Cohonina abandoned their "heartland area” around present day Williams by the late 1000s.