2024
24
Oct
Jemez Pueblo to Secure Right to Use Lands in Valles Caldera
Dear Friends,
I didn’t expect to be thinking or writing about fences this week, but such is the nature of our work and conversations at Archaeology Southwest!
Last week, Vice President of Preservation and Collaboration John Welch traveled to Mattocks Pueblo in the Mimbres Valley of southwest...
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2024
24
Oct
White Mountain Apache THPO and Archaeology Southwest Boost Protections for Mattocks Pueblo, Mimbres Valley
John R. Welch, Director, Landscape and Site Preservation Program
October 23, 2024—On October 20 and 21, the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site hosted Archaeology Southwest and White Mountain Apache Tribe Historic Preservation Office (THPO) staff to complete the long-anticipated re-fencing of the right...
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2024
16
Oct
Oct. 19 Is International Archaeology Day
Dear Friends,
Let me tell you about 36 hours in the best CEO job in the world! This past Monday and Tuesday I had two outstanding days full of Archaeology Southwest goodness.
EARLY on Monday morning, I flew into Phoenix from Denver with my good friend Rick Wicker. I’ve made that flight many ...
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2024
10
Oct
Where to Celebrate Indigenous Peoples’ Day 2024
Dear Friends,
Preservation Archaeologist and Field School Director Karen Schollmeyer here! Steve asked me to step in for him this week while he is recovering from Covid.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of an important event in the archaeology of the US Southwest: the Mimbres Foundation’...
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2024
07
Oct
Revitalizing and Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: My Experiences at CoLang 2024
Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(October 7, 2024)—This past summer, from June 3 to 28, I had the pleasure of attending CoLang. Formally known as the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, CoLang is a biennial institute centered on training in language revitalizat...
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2024
03
Oct
The NHPA in Federal Court, Again
Dear Friends,
On Tuesday, October 2, we held the first Archaeology Café of the season, and it was a smashing success! It was great fun to see old friends and make some new ones.
Archaeologist R. E. Burrillo presented “Celebrating the Song Dogs,” a fascinating lecture on coyotes and the ar...
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2024
29
Sep
For the Love of Land and the Sacredness of Landscapes
Aaron Wright’s edited volume Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology
is now available from the University of Utah Press
Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
(September 30, 2024)—I remember the drive like it was yesterday.
I was on a loop of the Four Corn...
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2024
26
Sep
Geoglyphs in Chile Destroyed
Dear Friends,
Archaeology Southwest (ASW) practices Preservation Archaeology, a holistic, collaborative, and conservation-based approach to exploring and protecting heritage places while honoring their diverse values. This mantra applies to and guides all of our research, preservation, outreach, ...
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2024
18
Sep
Four Corners Potato Is the Fourth Sister
Dear Friends,
I write to you this week while heading west at 34,000 ft., somewhere over Ohio. I’m on the way back to Tucson after several days at Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) headquarters in Washington D.C. with a crack team of archaeologists from Archaeology Southwest. Our task? To examine t...
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2024
12
Sep
Interview with Preservation Archaeology Field School Alumni
Dear Friends,
Several weeks ago, Preservation Archaeologists Karen Schollmeyer and Allen Denoyer returned to Tucson after an exhilarating AND exhausting six weeks in Silver City, New Mexico. There, they led the inaugural season of Archaeology Southwest’s new Preservation Archaeology Museum Cura...
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2024
05
Sep
On Conferencing & Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Skylar Begay (Diné), Director of Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow
Joshua Watts, cyberSW Manager
(September 5, 2024)—In this post, we offer some individual reflections on our participation in several professional conferences...
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2024
05
Sep
Sandals and Power in the Ancient Southwest
Dear Friends,
I hope you had a great Labor Day Weekend!
I spent the holiday weekend laboring (as it were) on archaeological research! I don’t get to do that often, so it didn’t really feel like work. It was a pleasure. An honor. A responsibility. And a privilege. I’ll share details of th...
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