2024
19
Dec
More-than-a-Conversation with Sec. Haaland
Dear Friends,
The phrase “you are the company you keep” and its variants are so common that it is difficult to pin down a precise origin. Philosophers, theologians, parents, coaches, and sages have all used the aphorism when teaching others. Why do I bring it up here and now?
Archaeology S...
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2024
11
Dec
Schwartz Appointed as City of Phoenix Archaeologist
Dear Friends,
As Bob Dylan sang in 1964, “The times they are a-changing.” It’s a truism, but one that rings truer in that there is more change in some moments than others.
Over the past week, the archaeological and cultural heritage spaces in which Archaeology Southwest operates have wit...
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2024
05
Dec
New Study Sheds Some Light on Canid-Human Relations
Dear Friends,
Earlier this week we wrapped up the first half of our 2024–2025 Archaeology Café series on the archaeology of dogs with an amazing lecture by Audrey T. Lin of the American Museum of Natural History. Her presentation, “The History of Coast Salish Woolly Dogs,” focused on resea...
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2024
01
Dec
Preserving the Ray Robinson Collection: Avocational Efforts in Preservation and Research
Jaye Smith, Joyce Clarke, Mary Graham, Phillip Hunger, Harlow Sires, and Valerie Freireich-Kaplan, Robinson Project Researchers
Jeffery J. Clark, Vice President for Research, Archaeology Southwest
Paper presented at the 2024 Pecos Conference, August 2, 2024.
Abstract
In 2015, the Arizona St...
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2024
25
Nov
Return to Cove, Arizona
Paul F. Reed, New Mexico State Director and Preservation Archaeologist
with
Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow
Ben Pelletier, Preservation Archaeologist
(November 26, 2024)—I was thrilled to return to Cove and Red Valley, Arizona, with Ben Pelletier, Caitlynn Mayhew, and R...
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2024
21
Nov
In Memoriam: John Douglass
Dear Friends,
It’s been a busy few weeks here at Archaeology Southwest! From research to outreach, site preservation to advocacy, administration to planning, there’s been a lot of everything lately. As we prepare for the Thanksgiving holiday and a one-week break from this newsletter, I wanted...
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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
14
Nov
Yucca House National Monument Expands
Dear Friends,
Last week Archaeology Southwest Vice President of Communications & Outreach (and editor of this newsletter) Kate Sarther received an inquiry from a national reporter who wanted to know our thoughts on possible threats to landscape and cultural heritage preservation efforts under...
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2024
07
Nov
Mesa Grande Cultural Park Is Now Sce:dagĭ Mu:val Va’aki
Dear Friends,
What a difference a week makes. One day I’m able to see humor in the archaeology and culture history of cheese. The next week, not so much.
To get some fresh air and clear my head, I took a long walk to the University of Arizona campus and back. I walked east from my house, awa...
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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
31
Oct
Gathering Firewood—and Redefining Land Stewardship—at Bears Ears
Dear Friends,
In order to maintain my sanity, especially lately, I have to laugh. Every day. I crave the physiological, emotional, and social release that comes from a good, collective belly laugh. I need to commune with others who have similar senses of humor. A story came across my newsfeed thi...
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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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