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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2024
03
Sep
New Research on Old Turkeys in the Mimbres Area
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(September 2, 2024)—One of the many fun and interesting things I got to do this summer while working at the WNMU Museum with our Preservation Archaeology Field School team was a rapid assessme...
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2024
03
Sep
A Decade of Weathering: The Mule Creek House
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(September 1, 2024)—In 2014, I joined the Archaeology Southwest Field School staff. The field school had been operating out of Mule Creek, New Mexico, for several years prior, and I was brought in to develop and teach the experiential component of the cu...
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2024
28
Aug
Archaeology Journal Goes Open Access
Dear Friends,
CNN recently published a story about a 4-year-old boy who accidently broke a 3,500-year-old Bronze Age jar at the Hecht Museum in Haifa. The jar was on open display because the museum’s founder wants to keep artifacts more accessible to the public, even if they are not supposed to...
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2024
27
Aug
Archaeology Southwest Honors Linda Pierce on the Occasion of Her Retirement
Pierce served the organization for decades, growing it from a team of 3 to an annual budget of $3M
Tucson, Ariz. (August 27, 2024)—Please join Archaeology Southwest’s Board of Directors, staff, and longtime supporters in celebrating Linda Pierce and her innumerable contributions to the heart ...
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