2011
20
Mar
Website Launched to Track Threatened Heritage Sites
Website Launched to Track Threatened Heritage Sites
A new internet platform has been launched today to rescue cultural heritage sites on the verge of being irremediably lost, said Global Heritage Fund, a California-based nonprofit organization that focuses on historical preservation. Called Glob...
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2011
13
Mar
Chaco Digital Archive Demonstrates Best Practices in Open Access Archaeology
Chaco Digital Archive Demonstrates Best Practices in Open Access Archaeology
How can we effectively convey information on the process of the excavation, the importance of theory and method, and the way in which general historical trends are interpreted from specific artifacts? It is time to op...
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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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2010
05
Nov
Homol'ovi Ruins State Park to Reopen
Editor's Note
Welcome to the newly redesigned Southwest Archaeology Today newsletter, published by the Center for Desert Archaeology. We hope you will find the revised formatting easier to read, and more useful as we continue to make improvements on the ways we can share information about archaeol...
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2010
27
Sep
New Digital Video: Science and Serendipity
At a recent Center for Desert Archaeology gathering, Dr. Patricia Crown related the series of serendipitous events that led to her discovery of ancient cacao residues on ceramics from Chaco Canyon's Pueblo Bonito. This presentation was recorded on September 19, 2010. more...
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