2024
11
Nov
Stephen E. Nash, President & CEO
Time, Trees, and Prehistory: Tree-Ring Dating and the Development of North American Archaeology
Dendrochronology, or tree-ring dating, burst onto the archaeological scene in December 1929, when Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an astronomer at the University of Arizona, published more than a dozen new com...
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2024
11
Nov
Skylar Begay, Director, Tribal Collaboration
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa) co-authored, with Ashleigh Thompson (Red Lake Ojibwe Nation), Archaeology Southwest’s Model for Tribal Collaboration, a living document that guides our work and relationships with Tribes. Begay is keenly interested in Tribal co-management and co-stewardship...
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2024
11
Nov
Jeffery J. Clark, Vice President, Research
Migrants and Mounds in the Northern San Pedro Valley, Arizona, 1200–1450 CE
During the late 1200s, a small group of Ancestral Pueblo immigrants from northeastern Arizona resettled in the northern San Pedro Valley in southeastern Arizona, maintaining their identity and lifeways. In response, local...
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2024
11
Nov
Shannon Cowell, Director, BIA-ARPA Assistance Program (Save History)
CSI ASW (Crime Scene Investigation Archaeology Southwest)
With John R. Welch. Archaeology Southwest's Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) Assistance Program has worked with dozens of Tribes to prevent, investigate, prosecute, and remediate archaeological resource crime. Come learn from Sh...
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2024
11
Nov
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert, Hands-On Archaeology Program
MUD!
Archaeologist and renowned ancient technologies expert Allen Denoyer explores the squishy medium of mud and its many uses, with a focus on experimental archaeology and adobe architecture and its preservation, from ancient to historic contexts.
Early Farming in Arizona’s Tucson Basin
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2024
11
Nov
Sarah Oas, cyberSW Data Specialist and Traditional Foodways Expert
Sarah Oas’s interest in archaeology, and her pathway to working in the American Southwest, center around the beautiful and complex relationships between people and plants, relationships that continue to be central to daily life in the ways we incorporate plants into our foods, medicines, crafts, a...
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2024
11
Nov
Ben Pelletier, Preservation Archaeologist
Movement, Migration, and Ceramic Exchange in Northeastern Arizona
Ceramics are an important part of the archaeological record and can help us understand the age and function of an archaeological site. Due to their unique composition of materials, they can also be used as a fingerprint of place on t...
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2024
11
Nov
Paul F. Reed, New Mexico Program Director and Chaco Scholar
Reimagining Chaco Canyon
Interpretations of Chaco Canyon tend to emphasize the ritual activities and a ceremonial center model for the Puebloan world. Although this is part of the story, there is much more to the history of Chaco that needs to be highlighted. Drawing upon 35 years of experience in ...
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2024
11
Nov
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
Searching for Sustainability: Ancient Impacts and Resource Management in the Southwest
Native people in the US Southwest have been able to thrive under challenging conditions for millennia thanks to flexible ways of farming and foraging well suited to this environment. The archaeological record is ...
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2024
11
Nov
Aaron M. Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
Aaron Wright is an award-winning author who explores the sacredness of cultural landscapes primarily through documentation of and consultation regarding rock imagery—petroglyphs, pictographs, ground figures, and related practices. Wright’s research is currently focused on the Hohokam and Patayan...
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2024
11
Nov
Anastasia Walhovd, Preservation Archaeologist, BIA-ARPA Assistance Program (Save History)
Anastasia Walhovd (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa) works to serve the Archaeological Resource Protection Act (ARPA) at Archaeology Southwest. Her work involves documenting and assessing ARPA violations on Tribal lands and educating the public about cultural resource crime. She frequently s...
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2024
11
Nov
Joshua Watts, cyberSW Manager
From the late 1990s through the 2000s, Joshua Watts worked on archaeological field projects across the Southwest, with an emphasis on the Hohokam of the Phoenix Basin. In the 2010s, he focused on computational modeling and simulation methods for researching both prehistoric and modern social systems...
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