2017
03
Dec
The President Is Expected to Announce Cuts to Our National Monuments Today
President Plans to Cut Crucial Areas from Two of Our National Monuments
Two of the nation’s most scientifically significant landscapes — the Kaiparowits Plateau and Cedar Mesa — could be largely stripped of hard-won protections when President Donald Trump appears in Utah on Monday to announce...
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2017
12
Nov
The Chaco Landscape Is Too Important to Lose
Chaco Canyon Might Lack the Monumentality of Egyptian Pyramids, but the Chaco Landscape Is Too Important to Lose
In Chaco Canyon, New Mexico, it is still possible to wander the maze of rooms of an ancestral Puebloan village erected roughly 1,000 years ago. Visitors use the same staircases and duc...
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2017
17
Sep
Utah Requests Bears Ears Be Reduced in Area by Ninety Percent
State of Utah Requests Bears Ears Be Reduced in Area by Ninety Percent
If maps Utah has submitted to the Interior Department are a guide, Bears Ears National Monument will be drastically cut in size. The state’s vision, shared with Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, is to shrink Bears Ears to one-ten...
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2017
10
Sep
New York Times Takes a Look at Crow Canyon's Northern Chaco Outliers Project
New York Times Takes a Look at Crow Canyon's Northern Chaco Outliers Project
On the site of a former auto-repair shop here, broken stone walls mark the site of a 900-year-old village that may yield new insights into an ancient desert culture. The ruins are what remains of two “great houses” ...
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2017
13
Aug
Innovative Study of DNA of Domesticated Animals Used to Track Migrations from Mesa Verde
Innovative Study of DNA of Domesticated Animals Used to Track Migrations from Mesa Verde
The 13th century Puebloan depopulation of the Four Corners region of the US Southwest is an iconic episode in world prehistory. Studies of its causes, as well as its consequences, have a bearing not only on arc...
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2017
06
Aug
The Archaeological Backhoe Master and the Early Agricultural Period Footprints - 8/6/2017
The Archaeological Backhoe Master and the Early Agricultural Period Footprints
Not long after Dan Arnit made the biggest archaeological find of his career, he had to go build a parking lot. The news of his discovery—3,000-year-old footprints made by a family walking through ancient fields—had ...
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2017
16
Jul
Diné and Pueblo Youth Join to Fight Fracking of the Chaco Landscape
Diné and Pueblo Youth Join to Fight Fracking of the Chaco Landscape
“Save the sacredness of our land and our water and our air and our soil. With fracking, all of those components in life are at a threat,” Antonio said. The group recently held a “consent dinner” for the communities of Tor...
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2017
11
Jul
For Posterity
Johnny Schaefer, University of Missouri
(July 11, 2017)—My Intro to Archaeology instructor once told me that an Archaeologist is only as good as the notes he or she takes. (Well, actually, it wasn’t just once.) I have had that statement repeated like a mantra ever since I began my coursework in...
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2017
09
Jul
Wild Potatoes Were on the Clovis Menu
Wild Potatoes Were Apparently Consumed by Clovis Era Peoples
A team of archaeologists and anthropologists, led by the University of Utah, has discovered potato starch residues in the crevices of a 10,900-year-old stone tool in Escalante, southern Utah — the earliest evidence of wild potato use i...
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2017
25
Jun
Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Objects Sacred to Native Peoples Introduced in Congress
Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Objects Sacred to Native Peoples Introduced in Congress
Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) reintroduced the bipartisan Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act, a bill to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties...
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2017
13
Mar
Seven Southwestern Archaeology Groups Advocating for Protecting Bears Ears Monument Status
Seven Southwestern Archaeology Groups Advocating for Protecting Bears Ears Monument Status
Seven archaeology groups in the southwest have asked the new Interior secretary to support the Bears Ears national monument designation. Utah lawmakers are calling for an elimination of the monument. Former P...
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2017
12
Feb
Archaeology Southwest's Paul Reed on Protecting Chaco Canyon
Editorial: Archaeology Southwest's Paul Reed on Protecting Chaco Canyon
Our public lands were at the center of many celebrations this past year. The centennial of the National Park Service allowed Americans across the country to celebrate what makes America so special: our public lands, cultural sit...
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