2025
02
Feb
What cyberSW's New NEH Award Is Making Possible
Sarah Oas, Preservation Archaeologist
Caitlynn Mayhew, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(February 3, 2025)—On January 16, 2025, we proudly announced that cyberSW had received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a new initiative, “Expanding cybe...
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2025
30
Jan
What Will Happen to Our Public Lands?
Dear Friends,
One of the joys of working at Archaeology Southwest is the daily surprise.
One day, Allen Denoyer will come in showing off a beautiful Acheulean hand axe he just made. The next, we’ll be learning new facts at the fourth installment of our fantastic Archaeology Café series on d...
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2025
23
Jan
AZ Gov. Pledges $7M to Aid ASM NAGPRA Compliance
Dear Friends,
Archaeology Southwest currently has two dozen full-time employees working on everything from original scientific research to Tribal collaboration, from site and landscape preservation to outreach activities, and from raising money to running the business of a complex nonprofit.
W...
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2025
21
Jan
Hands-On Archaeology: How to (Ethically) Harvest Lac
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(January 22, 2025)—What is lac, and why do we care how it is harvested?
If you haven’t yet read Marilen Pool’s recent post on lac, go do that now. Marilen explains what it is and how people have used it through time. Some years ago, Marilen attend...
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2025
16
Jan
NEH Awards Support Preservation Archaeology Projects
Dear Friends,
As do many archaeologists, I love hiking. It’s great to be out in nature, observing the landscape, thinking about what life was like in the past, and looking for evidence of those lives. It’s calming. It’s good for us. It is what we bipedal apes evolved to do—walk with our h...
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2025
15
Jan
cyberSW Receives $350K Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities
Funding will expand the scope, significance, and reach of this digital research and education platform through collaboration with Tribal experts
Tucson, Ariz. (January 16, 2025)— Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that cyberSW has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment fo...
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2025
14
Jan
Wright Receives Grant Award from Wenner-Gren Foundation
The Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant will bring Indigenous, Mexican, and US experts together to create an atlas of the Sonoran Desert’s rock imagery
Tucson, Ariz. (January 14, 2025)—Tucson-based nonprofit Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that Preservation Anthropologist Aaron Wright has r...
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2025
09
Jan
Meet the Newest National Monuments
Dear Friends,
Just over four years ago, I published a Curiosities column at SAPIENS.org on fascinating archaeological tree-ring research that reconstructed ancient Indigenous fire management systems in northern New Mexico. (See also Archaeology Southwest Magazine Vol. 30, No. 4, “Fire Adds Rich...
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2025
02
Jan
A Preservation Win: Canyon de Chelly Bans Commercial Air Tours
Dear Friends,
Happy New Year!
As usual this time of year, when the common-era [CE] (a.k.a. Christian) calendar rolls over, we often find time reflect on where we’ve been and where we’re headed. Media and various apps publish summaries of significant events and milestones; many folks make N...
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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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