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2024
19
Nov
A Day in the Great Bend of the Gila
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director of Tribal Collaboration
(November 20, 2024)—Many readers will likely be aware of the Respect Great Bend national monument campaign and coalition, which involves 13 organizations and which Archaeology Southwest helps lead. The coalition works tog...
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2024
31
Oct
Insect Lac in Southwestern Cultural Heritage
Marilen Pool, Sonoran Art Conservation Services, LLC
(November 19, 2024)—Several species of Tachardiella, lac scale insects, live in the arid Southwest as sessile phloem feeders on a variety of different host plants from various families. The insects produce a hard, waxy, resinous coating as a de...
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2024
24
Oct
Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024 Recap
Skylar Begay (Diné), Director of Tribal Collaboration
with
Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow
Anastasia Walhovd (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), BIA ARPA Assistance Program & Save History
Sara Anderson, Director of Outreach
Shannon Cowell, Director, BIA ARPA...
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2024
24
Oct
White Mountain Apache THPO and Archaeology Southwest Boost Protections for Mattocks Pueblo, Mimbres Valley
John R. Welch, Director, Landscape and Site Preservation Program
October 23, 2024—On October 20 and 21, the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site hosted Archaeology Southwest and White Mountain Apache Tribe Historic Preservation Office (THPO) staff to complete the long-anticipated re-fencing of the right...
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2024
07
Oct
Revitalizing and Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: My Experiences at CoLang 2024
Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(October 7, 2024)—This past summer, from June 3 to 28, I had the pleasure of attending CoLang. Formally known as the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, CoLang is a biennial institute centered on training in language revitalizat...
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2024
29
Sep
For the Love of Land and the Sacredness of Landscapes
Aaron Wright’s edited volume Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology
is now available from the University of Utah Press
Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
(September 30, 2024)—I remember the drive like it was yesterday.
I was on a loop of the Four Corn...
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2024
05
Sep
On Conferencing & Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Skylar Begay (Diné), Director of Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow
Joshua Watts, cyberSW Manager
(September 5, 2024)—In this post, we offer some individual reflections on our participation in several professional conferences...
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2024
03
Sep
New Research on Old Turkeys in the Mimbres Area
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(September 2, 2024)—One of the many fun and interesting things I got to do this summer while working at the WNMU Museum with our Preservation Archaeology Field School team was a rapid assessme...
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2024
03
Sep
A Decade of Weathering: The Mule Creek House
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(September 1, 2024)—In 2014, I joined the Archaeology Southwest Field School staff. The field school had been operating out of Mule Creek, New Mexico, for several years prior, and I was brought in to develop and teach the experiential component of the cu...
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2024
13
Aug
Floodplain Fusion
Jonathan Hazel, Arizona State University
(July 15, 2024)—Recently, my cohort within the field school wrapped up a week of archaeological survey along the banks of the Mimbres River. We uncovered a diverse array of ceramic sherds—brownwares, redwares, bowls, jars—each piece a testament to the ...
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2024
13
Aug
Making and Cataloguing Jewelry
Lydia-Ann Snyder, Arizona State University
(July 15, 2024)—Although I would not consider myself to be a particularly stylish person, I can recognize beauty in other people’s wardrobes. Fashion is not usually something people think about when considering the past. It is easy to assume that cloth...
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2024
31
Jul
Reaching out to Indigenous Youth
Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
(July 31, 2024)—We had three incredible opportunities to spend quality time with Indigenous young people this summer. Here, I share my reflections on those occasions, as well as those of some of my ...
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