2020
06
Oct
Safford, Ancient Arizona’s Forgotten Cosmopolitan Center
Now available: watch a video recording and explore extended content related to this presentation here.
From our house to yours…The 14th season of Archaeology Café celebrates and shares Archaeology Southwest’s current Preservation Archaeology projects with you. Our staff members wi...
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2020
22
Sep
Last Chance to Protect Greater Chaco?
Dear Friends,
This week, Greater Chaco continues to be our lead story. If the amended resource management plan developed by the Bureau of Land Management goes forward, future oil and gas extraction directly threatens archaeological sites and other places sacred to Tribes over an extensive area ...
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2020
08
Sep
George Frison Passes
Dear Friends,
Less than three months ago, my note to you linked to a blog post I published on June 17 that called on conscientious individuals and organizations to do more than simply post statements of support for Black Lives Matter. Compared to the magnitude of confronting America’s systemi...
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2020
20
Apr
Following Up on My April 14 Archaeology Café
On April 14, Paul Reed kicked off our first-ever Archaeology Café served entirely online. Watch and share his discussion of "Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan" below. To participate in our next Archaeology Café on May 5, 2020, register ahead here.
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2020
25
Feb
Congressional Subcommittee Hearing Today: "Destroying Sacred Sites and Erasing Tribal Culture"
Continuing Coverage: Congressional Subcommittee Hearing Today on Desecration at Border
Association on American Indian Affairs Executive Director and Attorney Shannon Keller O’Loughlin will testify to Congress Wednesday that recent U.S. government destruction of Native American sacred sites for th...
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2019
17
Sep
Border Construction Imperils Archaeological Sites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Border Construction Imperils Archaeological Sites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Environmental groups have fought unsuccessfully to halt construction in protected areas, arguing that more-imposing barriers could disrupt wildlife migration and threaten the survival of imperiled species. But ...
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2019
13
Sep
Archaeology Southwest’s Archaeology Café Program Receives Grant Award from Arizona Humanities
For information on our current Archaeology Café season, go here.
Archaeology Southwest’s Archaeology Café Program Receives Grant Award from Arizona Humanities
Funding will help encourage meaningful visits to some of the Southwest’s most special cultural sites and landscapes.
Tucson,...
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2019
04
Sep
Understanding When and How the Americas Were Populated
Understanding When and How the Americas Were Populated
Most archaeologists would now agree that there were widely scattered, small but culturally diverse groups of people living in the Americas at least one or two millennia before the emergence of Clovis spear points. That estimate, then, placing p...
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2019
30
Aug
Cafés Are Complicated
Bill Doelle, President & CEO
(August 30, 2019)—When Archaeology Southwest wholeheartedly embraced the “science café” movement more than a decade ago, we knew from the overwhelming response that we had started a good thing with Archaeology Café. And before we knew it, we’d hosted c...
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2019
04
Jun
Fingerprints Show Chaco Potters Were Male and Female
New Research: Fingerprints Show Chaco Potters Were Male and Female
In the Pueblo communities of New Mexico and Arizona, pottery is a skill that is traditionally passed down from grandmothers and mothers to younger women of the community. This custom was thought to have ancient origins, and archaeol...
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2019
23
Apr
Commentary: Rosemont Mine Will Be Disastrous for Tohono O'odham Sacred Lands
Commentary: Rosemont Mine Will Be Disastrous for Tohono O'odham Sacred Lands
The mountainous area southeast of Tucson is sacred to the Tohono O’odham Nation. For thousands of years, our people have used these ancestral lands to reflect and pray. We gather medicinal plants and food, and bear grass...
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2019
09
Apr
New Mexico Delegation Introduces Chaco Protection Legislation
New Mexico Delegation Introduces Chaco Protection Legislation
Today, U.S. Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and U.S. Representatives Ben Ray Luján and Deb Haaland introduced the Chaco Cultural Heritage Area Protection Act, S. 1079, a bill to withdraw the federal lands around Chaco Canyon from...
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