Join the Fight to Protect Bears Ears

Join the Fight to Protect Bears Ears
The archaeological community has urged the preservation of the Cedar Mesa/Bears Ears region for at least 113 years, dating back to a report in 1903 by T. Mitchel Prudden. Thanks to the leadership of Native American Tribes, 2016 is finally the year to protect this internationally significant cultural landscape. If you’re a professional or avocational archaeologist, please add your voice to the chorus calling for permanent designation of a place that should have been protected more than 100 years ago! http://bit.ly/1Sm08G4 – Friends of Cedar Mesa

Historic Preservationists Facing Tough Times in Phoenix
Why was a demolition permit issued for Circles Records and Tapes last month, even if plans aren’t finished for the mixed-use project that would replace it? That’s the key question in this saga, and the answer is an uncomfortable truth: Because we don’t really care about historic preservation. http://bit.ly/1SYpXYT – Arizona Republic

Visit With Respect: Leave the Pieces of the Past Where They Belong
The Friends of Cedar Mesa Remind us all to keep the sense of discovery alive. Leave all artifacts where you find them so the next person can share the experience. It’s illegal to move or take any artifact, including historic trash, from public lands. https://vimeo.com/159289891 – Friends of Cedar Mesa via Vimeo

Final Archaeology Café of the Season – Tucson
On May 3, 2016, Lewis Borck (University of Arizona, Archaeology Southwest), will present “Consent and Dissent in Deep Time.” Borck will talk about the spread of Salado across the southern Southwest. Borck views this as a decentralized religious movement that contended with entrenched, hierarchical belief systems in various areas. We meet on the patio of Casa Vicente, 375 S. Stone Ave., Tucson. Presentations begin after 6:00 p.m. It is best to arrive before 5:30 p.m., as seating is open and unreserved, but limited. http://bit.ly/1WQ5dIJ – Archaeology Southwest

Lecture Opportunity – Cortez
Southwest Colorado Canyons Alliance is proud to present Dr. Paul Reed on Wednesday, May 4, at 7:00 p.m. at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in Cortez, CO. Dr. Reed will discuss Overlooked No More! The Pueblo Archaeology of the Chuska Valley. The Chuska Valley, located west of Chaco Canyon, has long been seen as an integral component of the ancient Puebloan and Chaco worlds. Paul is a Preservation Archaeologist with the Tucson, AZ based Archaeology Southwest and works as a Chaco Scholar at Salmon Ruins, NM. Please contact Diane McBride, ED for SCCA, at 970-560-1643 for more information.

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
The Santa Fe Archaeological Society, Archaeological Society of America, is pleased to present Cherie Scheick, owner of Southwest at Archaeological Consults in Santa Fe on Tuesday, May 10, 2016 at 7:30 pm at the Pecos Trail Café, 22339 Old Pecos Trail, Santa Fe, NM 87505. She will speak on LA-2, the Agua Fria Schoolhouse Site may be the largest of the Coalition-Early Classic Period (AD 1200-1425) Santa Fe River Villages.  Unlike its sister site LA-1, Pindi Pueblo, which was intensively excavated in the early 1930’s, LA-2 is less well known.  Recently, Southwest Archaeological Consultants and the Rio Grande Foundation for Communities and Cultural Landscapes have excavated two areas within LA-2, revealing a complex and long history of site occupations.  This talk presents these new findings and explores how they expand our understanding of Ancestral Puebloan life along the river.

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars Presents Dr. Katherine Ann Dungan, Preservation Archaeologist and Postdoctoral Scholar, Archaeology Southwest, Tucson, Arizona who will give a lecture Rectangular Great Kivas and Borderland Histories in the Central Southwest, 1000-1400 AD Today, April 25 at 6pm at Hotel Santa Fe as part of the annual Ancient Sites Ancient Stories II Lecture Series held annually to honor and acknowledge the work of The Archaeological Conservancy. Admission is by subscription or $12 at the door. No reservations are necessary. Refreshments are served. Seating is limited. Contact Connie Eichstaedt tel: 505 466-2775; email: southwest seminar@aol.com website: southwestseminars.org

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars Presents Dr. J. David Kilby Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Graduate Coordinator for Anthropology, Department of Anthropology and Applied Archaeology, Eastern New Mexico University; Co-Ed., (w/B.Huckell), Clovis Caches: Recent Discoveries and New Research; Ed., Geology, Archaeology, and Climate Change in Blackwater Draw, New Mexico who will give a lecture  Ice Age New Mexico Archaeology Past and Present at Clovis/Blackwater Draw on May 2 at 6pm at Hotel Santa Fe as part of the annual Ancient Sites Ancient Stories II Lecture Series held annually to honor and acknowledge the work of The Archaeological Conservancy. Admission is by subscription or $12 at the door. No reservations are necessary. Refreshments are served. Seating is limited. Contact Connie Eichstaedt tel: 505 466-2775; email: southwest seminar@aol.com website: southwestseminars.org