2025
08
May
House Committee Votes to Sell Off Public Lands
Dear Friends,
The assault on all we hold near and dear continues, led by an unelected shadow government hired by the very people who howled about the presence of a sinister and so-called “deep state.” The irony of this situation would be delicious if their actions weren’t so short-sighted, ...
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2025
01
May
Ironwood Forest National Monument May Be Opened to Industry
Dear Friends,
It has been a ridiculously busy couple of weeks!
At this time last week most of our staff were headed to Denver for the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. I am thrilled to report that we showed up en masse and in force; our exhibit booth was hoppin’! S...
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2025
22
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at SAA 2025: Where to Find Us
Sara Anderson, Director of Outreach
Banner image: R0uge, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
(April 23, 2025)—As we head to the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting in Denver this week, I’ve been reflecting on something we heard loud and clear during our Appreciative Inquiry...
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2025
21
Apr
Archaeology Southwest Prepares to Fight Unlawful Grant Termination
DOGE-rescinded award supported regional nonprofit’s collaborative project with Tribes
to document culturally important animal and plant species
Tucson, Ariz. (April 22, 2025)—On April 2, Tucson-based nonprofit Archaeology Southwest received digital correspondence stating that the organization...
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2025
17
Apr
Protecting Ancestral Lands: Nanbé Owingeh Installs Fence to Safeguard an Ancestral Pueblo
Sean O’Meara and Michael Spears, Principal Investigators at MOS Research, LLC
(May 1, 2025)—Atop a windswept mesa nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, opening onto sweeping views of the Pojoaque Basin and the Jemez Mountains, the Pueblo of Nambé—Nanbé Owingeh—recent...
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2025
17
Apr
In Memoriam: William D. Lipe (1935–2025)
Dear Friends,
Late yesterday, the New York Times posted a story entitled Tucson, Ariz: Western Skies and Competitive Home Prices. In it, and in another column last fall, columnist and Tucson native Abbie Kozolchyk shared some of her tips and favorites in and about the Old Pueblo, including restau...
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2025
14
Apr
In Memoriam: Bill Lipe
Particular to Preserve
The Life and Legacy of William D. Lipe
R. E. Burrillo, Archaeology Southwest Research Associate
(April 14, 2025)—In 2014, I attended the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin, Texas, to present a research project for which I’d cooked b...
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2025
14
Apr
The Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project
R. E. Burrillo, Archaeology Southwest Research Associate
Do not distribute or reproduce without permission.
The backstory behind the Glen Canyon Archaeological Salvage Project (or Glen Canyon Project for short—often shortened even further to GCP) is kind of a tangled mess. Seriously, you cou...
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2025
11
Apr
New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Protection Legislation
Dear Friends,
Well, last Thursday, April 3, after I wrote to you, we received a uniquely sourced, strangely formatted, poorly written e-mail.
Ostensibly (see below) from the federal government, it was a notice of termination for our recently awarded $350,000 National Endowment for the Humaniti...
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2025
07
Apr
Hands-On Archaeology: Winter Count 2025
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(April 7, 2025)—As some of you know from my previous posts about this seriously earthy event, Winter Count is an ancient/ancestral skills gathering that has been happening in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert for the past 30 years. I’ve attended as many as I ...
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2025
03
Apr
BREAKING: NEH Grants Terminated
Dear Friends,
I LOVE working at Archaeology Southwest.
It’s an incredible place—physically, metaphysically, metaphorically, metamorphically, and every other way a place and human collective can be, especially in a time of transition and increasing uncertainty.
I’ve been on the job for...
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2025
27
Mar
Update on the Ninth Circuit Hearing Regarding the SunZia Case
John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration
(March 27, 2025)—Friends, you find me cautiously optimistic after my day (as a spectator) in court: The Ninth Circuit panel was skeptical about federal government and industry claims for the legality of the approval process for the ...
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