Editorial: Bill Doelle Argues for Preserving Bears Ears

Editorial: Archaeology Southwest President Bill Doelle Argues for Preserving Bears Ears
Public lands don’t offer enough protections, and this remarkable land in Utah is under attack. http://bit.ly/2aXNoFO – Arizona Republic

AZ Governor Appoints Kathryn Leonard as the New SHPO
On August 8, 2016, Governor Doug Ducey appointed Kathryn Leonard to the position of State Historic Preservation Officer. Leonard’s term of service will become effective September 6, 2016. “Historic preservation plays a key role in Arizona’s development,” said Sue Black, Executive Director of Arizona State Parks. “Kathryn Leonard knows how to work with the private sector to preserve Arizona’s past while enriching its future. We are thrilled to have her on the team.” http://bit.ly/2ayBkNh – Arizona Preservation Foundation via Facebook

Support the Future of Archaeology
When you make your gift toward the Preservation Archaeology Field School, you engage and empower the next generation of archaeologists and allies. And when you make your gift today, you double its impact. Between now and the end of August, an anonymous donor will match each gift made in support of the Preservation Archaeology Field School (up to $10,000). Please, donate now to support the field school, our students, and the future of our past. https://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/how-to-help/summer2016/

Tucsonense Podcast: Who Were the Hohokam?
We live on top of the Hohokam—their buildings, ball courts, canals, fields, and bodies—yet most of us know nothing about them. Maybe that shouldn’t come as a surprise. Arizona residents are famously transient and even Americans in relatively stable communities are often ignorant of the Indian landscapes underneath them. Sometimes that’s because it’s easier to ignore Indian history than confront the questions raised by studying the past, other times that’s because Indian worlds are so thoroughly erased that they’re hard to imagine or narrativize. http://bit.ly/2b10C31– Tucsonense

Archaeology Southwest’s Field School Looks at Migration from an Archaeological Perspective
Immigration is a hot topic in the U.S. and around the world, causing more tension and heated debate than ever. Politicians and lawmakers are all over the board about how to handle the issues that inherently arise when space is divided up and borders are drawn. But people have been moving across landscapes since the beginning of mankind — including right here in this area, where an important migration happened over 700 years ago that could have something to teach us about the immigration questions we face today. Last month, archaeologists from the nonprofit Archaeology Southwest, along with archaeology students from the around the country enrolled in a University of Arizona summer course, descended on a historical site that once housed a culture created by the effects of immigration. http://bit.ly/2bdxWss – Silver City Daily

NEH Grant Workshops to Be Held in Phoenix and Tucson
Join us for a workshop and information session to explore grant opportunities with the National Endowment for the Humanities and Arizona Humanities. Meet with representatives from both agencies to learn more about funding for humanities programs you are already running or looking to start. The workshops are free and open to all! Community organizations such as nonprofits, libraries, museums, tribal entities, community colleges, universities, and professors are encouraged to attend. http://bit.ly/2bdudtw – Arizona Humanities Council

Bears Ears Monument Puts Native Americans in Conflict with Land-Use Militants
A swath of high desert known as Bears Ears has become ground zero in the long-running battle over the nation’s public lands. http://bit.ly/2ayEkJx – American Prospect

Utah Outdoor Retailers Join Call for a Bears Ears Monument
Casting wildlands as the backbone of Utah’s economic future, outdoor industry leaders Thursday joined a chorus of groups calling on President Barack Obama to designate Bears Ears National Monument. The move is required to protect tens of thousands of archaeological sites hidden in a 1.9 million-acre network of canyons and mesas in southeast Utah, according to Peter Metcalf, founder of Salt Lake City-based Black Diamond Equipment. http://bit.ly/2aQcuHE – Salt Lake Tribune

The Story of a Career Shepherding Part of “America’s Best Idea” – Mesa Verde’s Superintendent Cliff Spencer
In 1984, Cliff Spencer was interviewing with Chief Ranger Rick Gale at Santa Monica Mountains Recreation Area, near Los Angeles. Spencer was there at the request of a professor, to apply to a cooperative education program between California State University Northridge and the National Park Service. The internship-like program provided class credit. He didn’t realize it would be the first step on a career path that has spanned nine parks over 32 years – and that he was meeting his future father-in-law. http://bit.ly/2aJWw4l – Durango Herald

Archaeology and Real Estate at Indian Camp Ranch
“My husband was a golfer and he’d much rather have a hole at Pebble Beach named after him but, instead, he’s got a divot in my front yard,” said Jane Dillard, rocking in the breeze on her broad porch. Ute Mountain, the San Juan Mountains and Shiprock dominate the horizon, but there’s more action in the foreground. Dillard lives in Indian Camp Ranch, a 1,200-acre subdivision on a ridge near Cortez, Colo. with a unique attraction. Each of its 31 plots has been platted to include Ancestral Puebloan (aka Anasazi) ruins. A sign at the neighborhood’s entrance, sitting amidst fake Puebloan dwellings, boasts that it’s “America’s first archeological subdivision.” http://bit.ly/2aDXLMw – San Juan Independent

Woolly Mammoths Staved off Extinction Longer than Expected
They are perhaps the most iconic animals of the Ice Age. But woolly mammoths survived in North America an astonishing 6,000 years after the Ice Age ended, scientists say. On a remote Alaskan island known as St. Paul, a tiny population of the mammoths managed to persist until just 5,600 years ago, according to new research reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. http://bit.ly/2b4Gb8g – Western Digs

Searching for the Alamo’s Main Gate
Archaeologists digging at the Alamo may be close to locating the site of the historic compound’s main gate. Experts discovered stones beneath San Antonio’s Alamo Plaza last week that could be associated with the main gate of the 18^th century Mision San Antonio de Valero, as the Alamo Mission was originally known. The stones are near the possible site of the Alamo’s south wall and gate, according to Nesta Anderson, the dig’s lead investigator and senior archaeologist at Pape-Dawson Engineers. http://fxn.ws/2b90T8Q – Fox News

Flagstaff Wins 2016 Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission Award
The City of Flagstaff’s Open Space Program accepted the 2016 Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission Award. The Award in Public Archaeology was given for the work done to protect, preserve and interpret resources within the Picture Canyon National and Cultural Preserve. The 478 acre preserve is located in northeastern Flagstaff and serves as a critical riparian habitat, a popular recreation corridor and is home to significant archaeological resources. http://bit.ly/2b14cdK – Arizona Daily Sun

Southern Arizona Archaeological Vandal Sentenced
A Bowie man has been ordered to pay more than $8,700 in restitution for removing ancient Native American artifacts from an archaeological site in southern Arizona. Federal prosecutors say 69-year-old David James Ioli also was sentenced Thursday to five years of probation. http://bit.ly/2bdrYWY – Casa Grande Dispatch

Archaeology Channel Call for Entries
We remind you now to submit your film entries for the 2017 edition of The Archaeology Channel International Film and Video Festival.  This is the only international competition for this genre in the entire Western Hemisphere and a wonderful showcase for your work.  Our deadline for receipt of entries is October 15, 2016.  Film screenings for TAC Festival 2017 take place May 4-7, 2017, in the Recital Hall at The Shedd Institute here in Eugene, Oregon, USA.  You can find our entry form and further information by going to http://archaeologychannel.org/festival.  Please read the guidelines carefully, as we depend on you for accurate information.

Author Event with Writer and Photographer Jonathan Bailey – Salt Lake City
On August 10, 2016, at 7:00 p.m., join Jonathan Bailey, editor of Rock Art: A Vision of a Vanishing Cultural Landscape, for a discussion and book signing at the King’s English, 1511 South 1500 East, Salt Lake City. Bailey and authors bring back layers of dimension to archaeological sites in Utah and Arizona’s canyon country by highlighting the significance of seeing beyond second dimension—that which is carved on the rock face itself—to the value of place, landscape, and the fundamental experience of our prehistory. These visions of the past are quickly being destroyed by development, vandalism, illegal trail pioneering, and encroaching tourism. For more information: http://bit.ly/2aEoTLk – The King’s English

Lecture Opportunity – Sedona
The Verde Valley Chapter of the Arizona Archaeological Society invites you to join us for our next monthly meeting on Thursday, Sept. 22, 7:00 p.m., in the Community Room at the Sedona Public Library, 3250 White Bear Road, in West Sedona. Our speaker, Spence Gustav, will present Preserving the Archaeology of the Red Rock District. For more information: http://bit.ly/1TOb3HQ – Verde Valley Archaeology Center

Lecture Opportunity – Santa Fe
Southwest Seminars Presents Brian Vallo (Acoma), Director, Indian Arts Research Center, School for Advanced Research and Former Lt. Governor and Founding Director, Haaku Museum, Pueblo of Acoma, who will give a lecture Inside and Outside Legacies of the Pueblo of Acoma on Monday, Aug. 15, at 6:00 p.m. at Hotel Santa Fe as part of the annual Native Culture Matters Lecture Series held to honor and acknowledge the Indian Arts Research Center at School for Advanced Research. 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: southwestseminar@aol.com; http://bit.ly/YhJddr – Southwest Seminars