2014
30
Jun
A Lesson Quickly Learned
Maxwell Forton, Preservation Archaeology Field School Student
A lesson quickly learned: not every excavation is going to unearth the find of the century. All too often, a unit is going to fail to meet your hopes and expectations. My group’s excavations atop the hill overlooking the Dinwiddie site...
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2014
26
Jun
Archaeology in the Southwestern and Eastern United States
Alex Covert, Preservation Archaeology Field School Student
I participated in a field school in Virginia last summer, and that experience was quite different from the one I’m having in New Mexico this summer. Through these two experiences, I have realized that archaeology varies greatly depending ...
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2013
08
Oct
Student Research at the Dinwiddie Site: Raw Material Sources
Deb Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Students attending the 2013 Archaeology Southwest/University of Arizona Preservation Archaeology Field School completed several interesting and valuable research projects covering a wide range of topics, from experimental ceramics and flaked stone st...
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2013
25
Jun
Sharing Archaeology with the Community, Part I
By Dorothy Kilgore, field school student from the College of Western Idaho
On June 15, 2013, Archaeology Southwest field students and staff performed a community outreach day at the Gila Community Center in New Mexico. Stations included an artifact show-and-tell, a pottery-making station, an artifa...
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2013
12
Jun
Meet Our Cook
By Emily Reed, field school student from the University of Connecticut
Excavating the Dinwiddie site has been exhausting. With the sun beating down on us constantly while we pick-axe and shovel into the hard ground, we are all drained by the end of the day. Our thirty-minute ride from Dinwid...
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2013
08
Jun
Archaeological Eyes
By Ely Rareshide, field school student from Rice University
Before we put trowel to dirt at the Dinwiddie site, we first visited the Valencia site at Pima Community College, Desert Vista Campus, to train our “archaeological eyes.” Bill Doelle led us through the site and explained how to interpr...
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