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2022
14
Jun
Doing It Awl
Emily Barrick, Pima Community College
(June 14, 2022)—One must-have in the field is a good hat with a wide brim and a strap to keep it from flying off your head. Knowing this, I brought one beat-up straw hat for the field and one brown felt one for trips to town. I had always wanted to punch so...
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2022
09
Jun
A (Long, Hot, Summer) Day in the Life
Charles Hemphill, Eastern Arizona College and University of Arizona
(June 9, 2022)—We wake before the sun to the sounds of birds in nearby trees. After a week and a half, the mockingbirds have adopted the beeping of our alarm clocks as their morning song, and an always-heard but never-seen turk...
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2022
06
Jun
Melodies, Harmonies, and Community
Elie Stenson, Case Western Reserve University
(June 7, 2022)—Each morning as we drive from our camp to the site, the early sun’s trace against the mountains of the Gila National Forest brings Paul Simon’s “Hearts and Bones” to my mind.
Prior to this year, I had never been to New Mexi...
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2022
06
Jun
50 Acres in Two Days
Ian Youth, Washington University in St. Louis
(June 6, 2022)—Each day at the Preservation Archaeology Field School, Ben Pelletier has been teaching three of us the basics of surveying an unfamiliar landscape. Because surveying allows us to identify previously unknown sites, it is an essential c...
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2022
01
Jun
Unit 463
Stephan Wallace, University of Texas at El Paso
(June 3, 2022)—I am currently working on Unit 463 on the Gila River Farm. It started out last year as a trench to find the extent of a wall. The trench ended when another wall was found connected to the first wall at a 90-degree angle. Our crew le...
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2022
31
May
The First Three Days
Avy Henrikson, University of Evansville
(June 1, 2022)—Welcome to another exciting season of Archaeology Southwest’s Preservation Archaeology Field School. So far, we have been flooded with new information about the area around Tucson and about the archaeological context for the site we are w...
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2022
31
May
They're Baaaack, 2022 Edition
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(May 31, 2022)—It’s the end of May, and our Preservation Archaeology Field School has just begun our 2022 field season. I’ve been having a great week spending time with our group, and I’m l...
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2022
12
May
Lower Gila Topophilia
Aaron M. Wright, Preservation Archaeologist
(May 12, 2022)—This month marks five years since I had the honor to announce the addition of the Fleming Parcel to Archaeology Southwest’s portfolio of conservation properties. This important place is located along the lower Gila River about an ho...
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2022
03
May
Camp Naco Is Back in the News
Bill Doelle, President & CEO
(May 4, 2022)—I have spent nearly five decades in southern Arizona. That’s long enough to gain a realistic perspective on the pace of preservation advocacy. Sadly, failure is often rapid. But success often takes decades.
Camp Naco has been part of Archaeology S...
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2022
21
Apr
Protect Chaco Comment Deadline Is May 6
Banner image of well pad in Greater Chaco courtesy of EcoFlight
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist and Chaco Scholar
(April 21, 2022)—In November 2021, Interior Secretary Deb Haaland announced the withdrawal of 351,000 acres of Federal surface land from oil-gas development in a 10-mile z...
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2022
19
Apr
In Memoriam: Gwinn Vivian
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist and Chaco Scholar
(April 19, 2022)—I cannot think of a Southwestern archaeologist and scholar who has made a more positive impact on our field than Gwinn Vivian (1935–2022). And the effect his recent passing is having on all of us who were fortunate to...
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2022
12
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at the SAAs—Recap
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(April 12, 2022)—In early April, a handful of us from Archaeology Southwest attended the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting in Chicago—in person! After a few years of cancell...
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