2024
22
Aug
Why Great Bend of the Gila Should Be a National Monument
Dear Friends,
I am thrilled to announce our lineup for the 2024–2025 Archaeology Café series, focused on dogs in North American archaeology, has now been set!
Tuesday, October 1, 2024: R.E. Burrillo, Bureau of Land Management
Tuesday, November 12, 2024: Laurie Webster, Independent Schola...
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2024
15
Aug
NPS Awards Funds to Aid NAGPRA Compliance
Dear Friends,
This week, I’d like to highlight some of the work of our cyberSW team, led by Vice-President of Research Jeff Clark and cyberSW manager Josh Watts. Before diving into specifics of their work, I’d like to ask you to consider our digital world from a 30,000-foot perspective.
Ri...
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2024
13
Aug
Floodplain Fusion
Jonathan Hazel, Arizona State University
(July 15, 2024)—Recently, my cohort within the field school wrapped up a week of archaeological survey along the banks of the Mimbres River. We uncovered a diverse array of ceramic sherds—brownwares, redwares, bowls, jars—each piece a testament to the ...
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2024
13
Aug
Making and Cataloguing Jewelry
Lydia-Ann Snyder, Arizona State University
(July 15, 2024)—Although I would not consider myself to be a particularly stylish person, I can recognize beauty in other people’s wardrobes. Fashion is not usually something people think about when considering the past. It is easy to assume that cloth...
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2024
08
Aug
Grijalva Introduces Legislation to Create Great Bend of the Gila National Monument
Dear Friends,
Archaeology Southwest practices preservation archaeology in all its manifestations—from minimally invasive and nondestructive scientific research to landscape and site preservation, from Tribal collaboration and co-management to advocacy for site and landscape protections. At any ...
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2024
02
Aug
Archaeology Southwest Applauds Rep. Grijalva’s Introduction of Legislation to Designate Arizona’s Great Bend of the Gila as a National Monument
Great Bend of the Gila is a globally significant landscape — invaluable, unique, and fragile
Tucson, Ariz. (August 2, 2024)—Congressman Raúl M. Grijalva (D-AZ) today reintroduced legislation in the House of Representatives seeking national monument designation for a remarkable cultural landsca...
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2024
01
Aug
The Return of Zuni Waffle Gardening
Dear Friends,
Last week I had the good fortune of taking an epic road trip around the American Southwest with two of our newest employees—Vice-President of Development Ethan Cox and Development & Marketing Manager Elysia Hansel. Neither had ever been to Mesa Verde National Park, Chaco Canyo...
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2024
31
Jul
Reaching out to Indigenous Youth
Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
(July 31, 2024)—We had three incredible opportunities to spend quality time with Indigenous young people this summer. Here, I share my reflections on those occasions, as well as those of some of my ...
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2024
18
Jul
Urge Congress to Fund Public Lands
Dear Friends,
It’s summer vacation season! Kate Sarther, our wonderful Vice President of Communications & Outreach (and editor of this newsletter) is headed back to Chicago—her birthplace—to see family and friends, so we won’t send another edition of this newsletter for two weeks.
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2024
13
Jul
Archaeology Southwest Statement on New York Times Guest Essay by Robinson Meyer
Archaeology Southwest Statement on New York Times Guest Essay by Robinson Meyer, “It Takes Too Many Studies for the Government to Do the Right Thing” (previously titled “Liberals Are Accidentally Smothering the Clean Energy Revolution”)
Tucson, Ariz. (July 13, 2024)—On January 17, 2024,...
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2024
10
Jul
National Monuments: The Heart of the West
Dear Friends,
I’ve spent the past week driving across upstate New York—a land that is very unfamiliar territory for me. My wife and I drove from the Big Apple to Buffalo, across the Adirondacks and the Catskills, through historic towns and tourist traps, along the Hudson River, past the Finge...
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2024
05
Jul
Archaeological Survey at NAN Ranch
Cassie Merrill, UNC Chapel Hill
(July 3, 2024)—For the past week, I have had the opportunity to explore the Chihuahuan Desert at NAN Ranch in Faywood, New Mexico, as part of the field survey rotation during the 2024 Preservation Archaeology Field School. Our group has learned how to conduct archa...
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