Sacred Object Sold at Paris Auction Returned to Hopi Tribe

Sacred Object Sold at Paris Auction Returned to Hopi Tribe
One of the several dozen sacred items sold at auction in Paris last spring has been returned to the Hopi people. The tribe was vehemently opposed to the sale. In April when lawyer Pierre Servan-Schreibercouldn’t convince a French judge to stop a Paris auction house from selling 70 Hopi sacred items, he bought one to return to the tribe. He paid 6,000 euros — or about $7,800. http://bit.ly/15z6ZkN – KPBS.org

Preseervation Archaeology: Millions of Sherds, Ancient Networks, and Bacon Numbers
The Southwest Social Networks project represents collaboration among a diverse group of researchers, supported by a 2008 grant from the National Science Foundation to the School of Anthropology at the University of Arizona and Archaeology Southwest. Our team, which is headed by principal investigators Barbara Mills and Jeff Clark includes archaeologists, sociologists, geochemists, and computer scientists. We have come together to explore how tools and techniques from the interdisciplinary field known as social network analysis (SNA) might help us understand the role of regional interaction in driving some of the sweeping and important changes we see in the late precontact (A.D. 1200–1500) Southwest. http://bit.ly/196l12x – Archaeology Southwest

Arizona State Museum Publishes Southwestern Textile Database
Attention all interested in SW textiles! Two brand new, searchable, and illustrated databases share info and images essential for understanding the evolution of three traditions—Navajo, Pueblo, and Spanish-American. Included are some 600 examples from ASM, and just over 1300 specimens from 50 other public collections:
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/coll/textile/asm_southwest_textile_database/
http://www.statemuseum.arizona.edu/coll/textile/jbw_southwest_textile_database/

Preservation Archaeology: Tribal Consultation on the Kaibab and at Vermillion Cliffs
For five days in April 2013, elders from Zuni Pueblo and the Hopi Tribe stayed at the historic ranch headquarters on the Arizona Strip north of the Grand Canyon. With agency cultural preservation staff, the elders visited ancestral cultural sites on the Kaibab National Forest and Bureau of Land Management’s Vermilion Cliffs National Monument. http://bit.ly/1bCEwAA

Lawsuit Over Access to Hopi Religious Sites on Navajo Nation Lands
The Hopis say the Navajos are failing to uphold their side of an agreement made in 2006 between the two tribes that allows Hopi religious practitioners access to a small number of sacred shrines located on allotments on Navajo land without interference from the Navajo Nation government.  The agreement states the gathering and removal of golden eagles on Navajo land is allowed within designated areas. http://bit.ly/15z5x1D – Navajo Hopi Observer

Ancient Boat Effigy Found on San Clemente Island
The Navy recently discovered a prehistoric boat effigy made of volcano lava on San Clemente Island, about 90 miles off the coast of San Diego. San Clemente Island is owned and operated by the U.S. Navy, and is used for training. http://bit.ly/15XdHAK – KPBS.org

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars Presents Dr. Debra Martin, Professor and previous Department Chair of Anthropology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas and Secretary of the American Anthropological Association and co-editor, International Journal of Osteoarchaeology who will give a lecture today, July 22 at 6pm at Hotel Santa Fe on Violence Against Women in the Ancient Southwest: A Bioarchaeological Perspective. The lecture is part of the annual Voices From the Past Lecture Series given to honor and acknowledge the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. No reservations are necessary. Admission is by subscription or $12 at the door and refreshments are served. Please contact Connie Eichstaedt at 505 466-2775 or email: southwestseminar@aol.com http://bit.ly/YhJddr

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars Presents Jeff Hengesbaugh, Historian, Mountain Man, and Documentary filmmaker, co-founder Mountain Man Rendezvous, The Palace of the Governors and Research Associate, New Mexico History Museum who will give a lecture on July 29 at 6pm at Hotel Santa Fe on Battle for Supremacy in the Northern Plains: The Lt. General Pedro de Villasur of 1720. The lecture is part of the annual Voices From the Past Lecture Series given to honor and acknowledge the New Mexico History Museum in Santa Fe. No reservations are necessary. Admission is by subscription or $12 at the door and refreshments are served. Please contact Connie Eichstaedt at 505 466-2775 or email: southwestseminar@aol.com http://bit.ly/YhJddr

Lecture Reminder – Where Pen Meets Trowel
Please join Archaeology Southwest for a special evening with Coronado Expedition scholars and Archaeology Southwest Research Associates Richard and Shirley Flint on Tuesday, July 23, 2013, 6:30 p.m., at the Murphy-Wilmot Branch Library, 530 N. Wilmot Rd., Tucson, AZ 85711, (520) 594-5420. The Flints will reflect on how archaeology and historiography may best inform each other. http://bit.ly/10tCBbr – Archaeology Southwest

Employment Opportunity – Albuquerque
The Maxwell Museum is currently advertising to fill the position of  Director of the Office of Contract Archaeology (OCA) that was vacated as a result of Dr. Richard Chapman’s retirement.  The position is titled Associate Director due to the organizational structure of the University of New Mexico.  This position functions as Director.  OCA plays a significant role by providing funding, experiential learning, classroom instruction, and research material for UNM students.  Applicant review will begin early in the fall semester (mid-August).  This position announcement can be found at https://unmjobs.unm.edu/applicants/Central?quickFind=73056

News from the Archaeology Channel features Monte Verde and Arizona’s Beethoven Site
The latest installment of the Video News from TAC features the following stories: In an area of northeastern Arizona formerly used by the Zuni, Hopi, Apache, and Navajo, archaeologists with the Arizona Department of Transportation explore a prehistoric habitation site, the Beethoven Site.  The area was slated for future highway construction work. And at TAC Festival 2013, Rick Pettigrew interviews Keynote Speaker Tom Dillehay, whose work at the Monte Verde Site in Chile overturned the Clovis-First hypothesis for the peopling of the Americas.  He explains how it took two decades of persistent research to accomplish this feat.  You can see these stories in the July 2013 edition of this monthly half-hour show, available now on our nonprofit streaming-media Web site, The Archaeology Channel (http://www.archaeologychannel.org) as well as on cable TV in cities across the US.