2019
06
Feb
Parcels within 10-Mile Buffer Zone around Chaco to Go up for Leasing
Parcels within 10-Mile Buffer Zone around Chaco to Go up for Leasing
A high point on the Pueblo Alto Trail at Chaco Culture National Historical Park, a climb of more than 300 feet, offers a view of landscape scattered with purple-brown brush and carved with ancestral Puebloan ruins. It is here wher...
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2019
22
Jan
Museum of Northern Arizona and the Glen Canyon Dam Project Today
Museum of Northern Arizona and the Glen Canyon Dam Project Today
Archaeology is still an important research domain at the museum. In 2014, MNA began a cooperative agreement with Glen Canyon National Recreation area to monitor previously-recorded archaeological sites. These are sites known from the ...
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2018
18
Dec
Resilient Farmers of the Phoenix Basin
Resilient Farmers of the Phoenix Basin
From approximately A.D. 450-1400, a Native American group known today as the Hohokam overcame a harsh desert environment along with periodic droughts and floods to settle and farm much of modern Arizona. They managed this feat by collectively maintaining an ex...
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2018
04
Dec
Thank You for Commenting
Unprecedented Number of Comments Submitted on Behalf of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante
Organizations in Utah announced Tuesday that Americans across the country submitted more than 500,000 comments on the future of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. This outsized...
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2018
20
Nov
AZ State Parks Director Ousted
AZ Governor Fires State Parks Director
Black's termination follows an Arizona Republic investigation revealing allegations from former department archaeologists that Arizona State Parks & Trails had repeatedly developed state land without regard for laws protecting Native American and other arc...
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2018
13
Nov
New Allegations in AZ State Parks Archaeology Scandal
New Allegations in AZ State Parks Archaeology Scandal
An Arizona State Parks & Trails deputy director obtained nearly $80,000 for the department after signing a federal grant application as the agency's archaeologist even though he had no training in that field, documents obtained by The Arizon...
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2018
23
Oct
Ancestral Homelands
Interviews: Bears Ears Is My Ancestral Homeland
Jim Enote is a member of the Zuni tribe. The Zuni and other southwestern Pueblo tribes, such as the Hopi, are descendants of the Ancestral Puebloans, who inhabited the canyons and mesas of the Bears Ears region of southern Utah before migrating away i...
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2018
18
Sep
BLM to Host Public Meetings on Bears Ears
BLM to Host Public Meetings on Bears Ears
The Bureau of Land Management and U.S. Forest Service will host three public meetings in Utah as part of the planning process for the Bears Ears National Monument. The draft management plans for the Shash Jáa and Indian Creek units and associated environme...
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2018
04
Sep
A Zuni Ahayuda Goes Home
A Zuni Ahayuda Goes Home
For four decades, the Zuni tribe has scoured the world looking to reclaim its war god idols [sic]. While most are found in southwest museums, one was found at Albion College. The war god—also known as an Ahayuda—is being returned to the Zuni, a southwestern U.S. Native ...
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2018
28
Aug
Understanding the Chaco World
New Paper: Chaco Social Networks
Migration was a key social process contributing to the creation of the ‘Chaco World’ between AD 800 and 1200. Dynamic social network analysis allows for evaluation of several migration scenarios, and demonstrates that Chaco’s earliest ninth-century networks sh...
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2018
22
Aug
Pursuing a Better Future for Bears Ears National Monument
Join William H. Doelle, President and CEO of Archaeology Southwest, for a presentation entitled Pursuing a Better Future for Bears Ears National Monument on Wednesday, August 22, 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. at St. Michael and All Angels Church, 601 Montano Road NW, Albuquerque. Dr. Doelle will discuss s...
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2018
22
Aug
BLM Releases Draft Monument-Management Plans for Grand Staircase, Bears Ears
BLM Releases Draft Monument-Management Plans for Grand Staircase, Bears Ears
Most of the lands removed from southern Utah’s Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument would be available to coal mining and oil or gas drilling under federal draft plans released Wednesday, putting nearly 700,000 ac...
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