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2023
08
Mar
Why I No Longer Call It “Art”
Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
(March 9, 2023)—I’ve been thinking about the power of words, especially those pertaining to petroglyphs and pictographs, for quite some time. With the annual meeting of the American Rock Art Research Association (ARARA) taking place in Tucson this w...
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2023
03
Mar
There’s the Buff!
Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
(March 3, 2023)—A few years ago I shared thoughts and information as I began a journey into the world of Patayan pottery, namely the “Lower Colorado Buff Ware” (LCBW) associated with ancestral Yuman tribes of the lower Gila and lower Colorado Rive...
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2023
28
Feb
Onward, Camp Naco!
Bill Doelle, President & CEO
(March 1, 2023)—On the last weekend of Black History Month, l drove a road I know well but hadn’t traveled since COVID—the road to Camp Naco.
There was an Open House to celebrate Black History Month and to mark grant awards to the City of Bisbee and N...
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2023
27
Feb
Finding Hohokam Social Connections and Boundaries through cyberSW
Christopher R. Caseldine, Alexis Malone, and Emily Lemaster, Arizona State University
(February 27, 2023)—Over the past four decades, the Hohokam region has become fertile ground for understanding social interactions at a large scale. Despite an ever-increasing cultural dataset, the region has la...
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2023
16
Jan
Continued Preliminary Research on the Ray Robinson Collection: The Perishable Assemblage
Jaye Smith, Team Lead, Robinson Collection Project, Archaeology Southwest
Jeffery Clark, Preservation Archaeologist, Archaeology Southwest
Joyce Clarke, Mary Graham, and Phil Hunger, Volunteer Researchers, Archaeology Southwest
(January 17, 2023)—The Robinson Collection Project was ...
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2022
15
Dec
Remodeling the Pithouse at the Huhugam Ki Museum
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(December 15, 2022)—On Saturday, November 5, I drove up to the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Scottsdale for the Huhugam Ki Museum’s anniversary celebration. My job was to help remodel the replica historic...
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2022
08
Nov
The Diné History of Chaco Canyon
Wade Campbell, Asst. Professor, Boston University Dept. of Anthropology & Archaeology Program
(November 8, 2022)—I am a Diné archaeologist whose research explores a variety of Navajo-focused archaeohistorical topics from across Diné Bikeyah—Navajoland—an area that extends beyond the b...
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2022
25
Oct
Unfencing Preservation Archaeology
John R. Welch, Director, Landscape and Site Preservation Program
Skylar Begay, Diné (Navajo Nation), Mandan and Hidatsa, Tribal Outreach Fellow
Ashleigh Thompson, Red Lake Ojibwe Nation, Director, Tribal Collaboration Initiative
Brian Williams, Cherokee Nation, Director, Operations and Fin...
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2022
30
Sep
A New Pithouse for the Presidio
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(October 2, 2022)—In 2021, we began conversations with Amy Hartmann Gordon, Executive Director of the Presidio San Agustín del Tucson Museum, and Ginger Thompson, Education and Outreach Manager, about what to do with the...
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2022
30
Sep
Because Places Matter to People
Kate Sarther, Content & Communications Director, and Staff
(September 30, 2022)—Have you read our newly released 2021 Annual Report? If not, you can find it here. I always enjoy compiling these reports and the sense of satisfaction I—we—you can take in all that we managed to accomplis...
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2022
30
Aug
Experiencing and Understanding the Landscape of Petroglyph National Monument
Paul F. Reed, Aaron Wright, Lia Griesser, and Kurt Anschuetz
(August 30, 2022)—Archaeology Southwest is preparing an Indigenous Cultural Landscape Report (ICLR) for Petroglyph National Monument (Monument), located within the city of Albuquerque and Bernalillo County, New Mexico. The Monument enco...
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2022
23
Aug
Don’t Worry, She’ll Hold Together
Andrew Van Cleve, Restoration Archaeologist
(August 23, 2022)—“You hear me, baby? Hold together.” Han Solo may have been talking about the Millennium Falcon, but I recently found myself thinking that during work at 700-year-old cliff dwellings.
Located northeast of Phoenix, Tonto Nat...
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