2011
02
Oct
Food Archaeologist
Gary Nabhan - Food Archaeologist
Gary Nabhan has written stacks of research papers about culture, archaeology and food for academic journals, and has authored at least a dozen books, some meant for popular consumption, others the academic kind whose titles have colons and subtitles that are longer ...
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2011
04
Apr
Did Ancient Southwestern Peoples Trade Turquoise for Chocolate?
Like Turquoise for Chocolate?
Talk about a sweet deal—prehistoric peoples of Mesoamerica may have traded chocolate for gems from the U.S. Southwest, a new study suggests. Traces of a chemical found in cacao—the main ingredient in chocolate—were found in several drinking vessels from variou...
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2011
13
Feb
Mount Taylor Stripped of Traditional Cultural Property Designation
Mount Taylor Stripped of Traditional Cultural Property Designation
It was about respect, said the Acoma, Hopi, Laguna, Navajo and Zuni tribes in mid-2008 pitching the designation of Mount Taylor as a traditional cultural property. A year later the TCP designation was a done deal, except that some...
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2011
30
Jan
Lawsuit Over Gas Drilling in Nine Mile Canyon Leads to Settlement Including Major BLM Policy Change
Lawsuit Over Gas Drilling in Nine Mile Canyon Leads to Settlement Including Major BLM Policy Change
A coalition of historic preservation and conservation groups announced yesterday that they settled a lawsuit with the Bureau of Land Management filed in the summer of 2008 challenging the BLM’s ...
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2011
02
Jan
Market for Southwestern Antiquities Fading
Market for Southwestern Antiquities Fading
It’s perfectly legal if the items come from private lands or from private collections predating federal antiquities law. Still, buyers at auction candidly say that they are worn down by government scrutiny and aren’t so keen on Ancestral Puebloan pie...
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2010
01
Dec
Preservation Archaeology News, Fall 2010
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Updates from the Field
Deborah Huntley: Mule Creek 2010
The third field season at Mule Creek, New Mexico, was as productive and enjoyable as ever. Katherine Dungan and Rob Jones began in mid-May by finishing site recording and mapping from t...
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2010
28
Nov
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association Featured a Growing "Jargon Gap"
Meetings of the American Anthropological Association Feature Growing "Jargon Gap"
This weekend's annual conference of the American Anthropological Association drew more than 6,000 scholars, making it among the best-attended meetings in the organization's history. But the robust numbers did not preve...
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