2023
03
Oct
cyberSW and SKOPE Now Work Together
Dear Friends,
This note is divided into two parts: an important Part 1 and a self-indulgent Part 2.
Part 1. Last night, Archaeology Southwest initiated season 16 of its Archaeology Café series. My thanks to Director of Outreach, Sara Anderson, who took over hosting the Café, which allowed me...
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2023
28
Sep
Bug Bling! How to Make a Necklace out of Beetle Legs
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(September 28, 2023)—When I was visiting Mission Garden this past summer during the height of the fig harvest, I was amazed to see thousands of beetles eating ripe figs. I grew up calling these “June bugs,” but in the...
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2023
26
Sep
Continuing Coverage: Tribal Co-Management of Public Lands
Dear Friends,
As I looked out my kitchen window on Sunday, I saw the first Black-throated Sparrow since sometime in May. And for the last several weeks, I have had to replenish my hummingbird feeder every morning. The nectar-feeding bats that take on the night shift consume a lot more than the da...
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2023
25
Sep
On the Trail of Trails: A Dialogue
John R. Welch, Director, Landscape and Site Preservation Program
Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
(September 26, 2023)—Archaeology Southwest is, of late, blazing trails in the Archaeology of Trails! Aaron (AW) has been documenting traces of ancient trails in present-day southern Arizo...
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2023
19
Sep
Continuing Coverage: Pueblo Leaders Defend Chaco Protection Zone in DC
Dear Friends,
I have long been interested in changes in population—demography—in my archaeological studies and as a global phenomenon. With colleagues, I have suggested that population numbers may have dropped by as much as 75 percent in the southern Southwest over the century from 1350 to 14...
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2023
12
Sep
All Pueblo Council of Governors in DC to Advocate for Chaco Protection Zone
Dear Friends,
Today’s note comes with my thanks to Linda Vossler, Archaeology Southwest’s Amazing Office Manager. Linda sent our staff a reminder email that our monthly staff lunch this Friday—which we are so fortunate and grateful she organizes—will be catered by the San Xavier Co-op: ...
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2023
11
Sep
Call to Action: Support Common-Sense Reforms to Oil-Gas Leasing on Public Lands
Interior Dept. takes steps to modernize oil and gas leasing on public lands, ensure fair return to taxpayers
Comment now
Tucson, Ariz. and Taos, N.M. (September 11, 2023)—We and our coalition partners commend the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Department of the Interior, and the Bi...
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2023
05
Sep
Proclamation on National Wilderness Month
Dear Friends,
Reading books. Not reading books. Re-reading books.
Since I was very young, reading has been a passion. But, for a long dry spell during my early and middle professional career, there simply wasn’t time to read books.
Then, in the early portion of my “late professional car...
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2023
04
Sep
NSF Grant News to Share!
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(September 5, 2023)—I recently received some wonderful news: My friends and colleagues Jeff Clark and Mike Diehl and I have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation to s...
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2023
29
Aug
Evidence that People Bred Macaws at Mimbres Site
Dear Friends,
Over the past 10 days I spent several days in Traverse City, Michigan, four days in San Diego, California, and a half-day on Mount Lemmon, a peak just outside of Tucson that rises over 9,100 feet.
These places have an important thing in common—they are MUCH cooler than Tucson.
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2023
28
Aug
Indigenous Sustainability and "Little Elders"
Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(August 29, 2023)—Yá’át’ééh shik’éí dóó shidine’é. Shí éí Caitlynn Mayhew yinishyé. Kin Łichii'nii nishłį́ dóó Bilagáana bashishchiin. Táchii’nii dashicheii dóó Bilagáana dashinalí. K’aabiizhii Nasdlah...
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2023
23
Aug
An Audio Postcard from Mesa Verde National Park
Dear Friends,
Good morning! And I say that because it’s 6:30 a.m. here in San Diego as I begin to write this.
I’ll confess. I forgot about you.
I take that as a good sign. It suggests that I really can occasionally step away from work and relax. Last evening—at the time I am normally ...
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