2022
30
Aug
Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition Releases Land Management Plan
Dear Friends,
For the past two weeks and counting, I have productively applied my dated archaeological field skills to my daily life at the office. The Bates Mansion—Archaeology Southwest’s historic home in downtown Tucson—has had plumbing problems. Very serious plumbing problems.
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2022
13
Jan
Hands-On Archaeology: How to Make a Cruciform
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(January 14, 2022)—Cruciforms are artifacts people made by flaking and then grinding stone. In the Southwest, archaeologists find them in sites dating to the Early Agricultural period, particularly those of the Cienega ph...
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2019
26
Dec
Congressional Spending Bill Includes Protection for Greater Chaco
Congressional Spending Bill Includes Protection for Greater Chaco
The U.S. Senate has approved a $1.4 trillion spending package for the 2020 fiscal year. The White House has said that the president will sign the legislation. Importantly, the legislation includes interim protections for the landscap...
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2019
16
Jul
Ceremonial Shield Will Return to Acoma Pueblo
Ceremonial Shield Will Return to Acoma Pueblo
A sacred ceremonial shield will be returned to the Pueblo of Acoma following a settlement agreement filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court. The settlement orders the EVE Auction House in Paris, France, to release the shield into U.S. custody at t...
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2017
28
Jul
Burning an Early Agricultural Period Pithouse: Documenting the Process
This is the second post in our "Burning Down the (Pit) House" series. For part 1, read Allen Denoyer's post here.
Doug Gann, Preservation Archaeologist and Digital Media Specialist
(July 28, 2017)—In experimental archaeology, a common technique for trying to learn about past human activities...
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2016
27
Nov
New Data on the Domestication of Maize
New Data on the Domestication of Maize
According to an international team of scientists who have sequenced the genome of a 5,310-year-old maize cob from the Tehuacan Valley, the maize (Zea mays) grown in central Mexico more than five millennia ago was genetically more similar to modern maize than to...
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2016
30
Oct
Temporary Halt to Fracking near Chaco Canyon Overturned
Temporary Halt to Fracking near Chaco Canyon Overturned
An effort to temporarily halt drilling across part of one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields has been rejected by a federal appeals court, leaving environmentalists to push their case against hydraulic fracturing in district court. A...
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2016
08
Feb
Like a Live Wire
Andy Laurenzi, Southwest Field Representative
(February 8, 2016)—Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, Catalina State Park’s Romero Ruin, Pueblo Grande Museum, Flagstaff’s Picture Canyon, Tubac Presidio State Historic Park—here in the American Southwest, there are ample opportunities to connect with th...
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2016
24
Jan
Astonishing Early Agricultural Period Surface Shows Ancient Footprints in Tucson
Astonishing Early Agricultural Period Surface Shows Ancient Footprints in Tucson
Dan Arnit of Innovative Excavating was working at the site of the planned Sunset Road connection to Silverbell Road just west of Interstate 10 when he came across something startling — prehistoric human footprints, po...
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2016
21
Jan
An Adobe Pompeii
Doug Gann, Preservation Archaeologist and Digital Media Specialist
(January 21, 2016)—When reading book reviews or other arguments in archaeology, one of the more common put-downs is the dreaded "Pompeii premise." An archaeologist accused of this, so it goes, has been naive in assuming that th...
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2016
12
Jan
You're Invited: Making Archaeology Public
Sarah Herr, Senior Project Director, Desert Archaeology, Inc.
(January 12, 2016)—This Thursday night in Tucson, the 15th biennial Southwest Symposium opens. The Southwest Symposium has always been one of my favorite archaeological conferences, as archaeologists working in the Southwest United Sta...
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2015
02
Aug
The Archaeology of Southern Arizona's Early Farmers
Archaeology Southwest and Desert Archaeology, Inc., Publish New Works on the Archaeology of Southern Arizona’s Early Farmers
Tucson, Ariz. (August 1, 2015)—Tucson-based cultural resources management firm Desert Archaeology, Inc., has recently completed final reports on the Las Capas site, w...
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