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2014
21
May

Turquoise Trade among Ancestral Pueblo Groups

By Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist and Chaco Scholar at Salmon Ruins Scott Michlin welcomed me back to his radio show last month, and I came bearing tales of turquoise (click here to listen to our discussion). Sharon Hull (University of Manitoba, Department of Geological Sciences) and her ...
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2014
13
Apr

Low-Impact Archaeological Research - Drone with Thermal Camera Quickly Maps Ancient Pueblo Village

Low-Impact Archaeological Research - Drone with Thermal Camera Quickly Maps Ancient Pueblo Village Thermal images captured by an small drone allowed archaeologists to peer under the surface of the New Mexican desert floor, revealing never-before-seen structures in an ancient Native American settleme...
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2013
15
Dec

Annenberg Foundation Purchases and Plans to Repatriate Hopi and Apache Sacred Objects

Annenberg Foundation Purchases and Plans to Repatriate Hopi and Apache Sacred Objects The Annenberg Foundation has revealed that it was an anonymous bidder that paid $530,000 for 24 Native American artifacts that were being sold at a controversial auction in Paris earlier this week. The Los Angeles-...
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2013
17
Nov

The Story of Florence Lister: Heroine of Southwestern Archaeology

The Story of Florence Lister: Heroine of Southwestern Archaeology A woman who has inspired several generations of archaeologists apparently is not content to rest on her laurels. At the seemingly advanced age of 93, she’s hard at work on a paper to help settle a controversy surrounding a kiva at A...
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2013
22
Sep

The Debate over Developing Lands Adjacent to Chaco Canyon

The Debate over Developing Lands Adjacent to Chaco Canyon As far as the Park Service is concerned, Binettnee Kirk suggested the resort might be pitched to the feds as a preferable alternative to fracking, to which the gas-rich Nageezians might resort if there's no other way to harvest income from th...
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2013
08
Sep

Oil and Gas Leases Pushed Back 10 Miles from Chaco Park Boundary

BLM Prevents Oil and Gas Drilling on Chaco Culture Park Boundary Opponents of drilling near Chaco Culture National Historic Park in New Mexico have received a reprieve from proposals to drill on U.S. Bureau of Land Management parcels bordering the park, which is home to ancestral Puebloan ruins. Th...
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2013
01
Sep

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Could Transform Archaeological Research and Preservation

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Could Transform Archaeological Research and Preservation In Peru, home to the spectacular Inca city of Machu Picchu and thousands of ancient ruins, archaeologists are turning to drones to speed up sluggish survey work and protect sites from squatters, builders and miners. R...
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2013
25
Aug

Plans in Place for Hydraulic Fracturing on Chaco Culture Park Boundary

Fracking Chaco Canyon?  That's why so many are looking for salvation in two words: Mancos Shale. The formation, which extends from New Mexico into portions of Colorado, Utah, and Wyoming, is buried about a mile beneath the surface. Estimated to contain upwards of six billion barrels of oil, approx...
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2013
09
Jul

Visiting Chaco Canyon

By Thatcher Rogers, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse The weekend field trip to Chaco Canyon began splendidly with an informative visit to Zuni. Due to purchasing a large number of zoomorphic figures associated with water, we were unfortunately deterred by rains from accomplishing our original g...
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2013
16
Jun

Indian Education Leader Della Warrior to Direct Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology

Indian Education Leader Della Warrior to Direct Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology Della C. Warrior (Otoe-Missouria) has been appointed to lead the Museum of Indian Arts and Culture/New Mexico Laboratory of Anthropology (MIAC). Warrior will commence her duties ...
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2012
09
Dec

Road to Chaco to Remain Unpaved

Road to Chaco to Remain Unpaved The Hopi refer to Chaco Canyon as "the place beyond the horizon." Because of increasing cost and staunch opposition to a road improvement plan, it will remain the place beyond chip sealing. San Juan County commissioners voted Tuesday to pull the plug on a plan years ...
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2012
29
Jul

Archaeologist Elisa Villalpando vs. the Narcotraficantes

Archaeologist Elisa Villalpando vs. the Narcotraficantes During the holiday season, my family always hosted the many archaeology graduate students from Binghamton University in upstate New York, where my father, Randall McGuire, was and still is a professor. After the dinner of turkey with all the ...
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