2013
10
Mar
Patrick Lyons Selected as Director of the Arizona State Museum
Patrick Lyons Selected as Director of the Arizona State Museum
In the midst of its 120th year, Arizona State Museum (ASM) has named Patrick D. Lyons, Ph.D., as its new director. Lyons, an archaeologist, is ASM’s seventh director since its founding by the territorial legislature in 1893. Lyons repl...
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2012
14
Oct
Archaeological Insight on Modern Mexican Migration
Archaeological Insight on Modern Mexican Migration
Jason de Leon regularly traipses the deserts of the American southwest, in search of artifacts and information that could help him understand how Mexican migrants move across the border and into the United States. In the process, he's trying to unde...
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2012
05
Aug
Cliff Palace Closed to Public — Ancient Structures in Peril
Cliff Palace in Peril
Scott Travis stepped delicately around the ruins of Cliff Palace, his eyes deftly scanning the sandstone bricks, the carefully carved windows and the well-worn wooden beams of at one of Mesa Verde National Park’s most extensive cliff dwellings. Below him, hundreds of voices i...
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2012
15
Apr
An Ancient Collection Restored? The Case of the Pilling Figurines
An Ancient Collection Restored? The Case of the Pilling Figurines
Last year, Bonnie Pitblado received a striking piece of ceramic art in a small box with a typed note that expressed the anonymous sender’s desire for the artifact to "find its original home." One look and the Utah State University a...
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2011
23
Jan
Major Clovis Discovery in Northern Sonora
Major Clovis Discovery in Northern Sonora
Mexican Archaeologists discovered 3 Clovis projectile heads associated to remains of Gomphotheres with an age of at least 12,000 years, in the northern region of the Mexican state of Sonora. The finding is relevant because these are the first evidence...
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