2012
04
Jun
Student Post: First Days at Mule Creek
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Our first student blog post comes from Tom Sprynczynatyk:
As we drove up to the field school camp, I couldn’t help but feel some trepidation. Leaving Safford, about 50 miles southwest from Mule Creek, I could see smoke from the Whit...
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2012
01
Jun
2012 Field Season Begins
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
This Tuesday, we arrived in Mule Creek with the new students, officially beginning the 2012 Mule Creek Preservation Archaeology field school. For those of you who haven’t visited the blog before, we began this journal during the 2011 field s...
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2012
22
May
Counting Down the Days
...to the 2012 Preservation Archaeology Field School!
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
It’s nearly here, and our staff is busy making final preparations for the 2012 Archaeology Southwest/University of Arizona Preservation Archaeology Field School at Mule Creek, New M...
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2012
30
Apr
Mule Creek in Memphis
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
The Society for American Archaeology held its 77th Annual Meeting last week, and several of Archaeology Southwest’s staff, research associates, and friends traveled to Memphis to talk about archaeology, see old friends, and enjoy some barbequ...
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2012
06
Apr
Salado polychrome pottery, part 2
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
A major part of our research at Mule Creek—and in the Upper Gila region in general—is to identify compositional and stylistic variability in Salado polychrome pottery (also known as Roosevelt Red Ware) through time and across space. ...
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2012
23
Mar
Salado polychrome pottery, part 1
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
A major part of our research at Mule Creek—and in the Upper Gila region in general—is to identify compositional and stylistic variability in Salado polychrome pottery (also known as Roosevelt Red Ware) through time and across space. ...
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2012
15
Mar
Have Pottery, Will Travel: Trade Ware at Gamalstad
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
If you’ve been following the blog, you already know a little bit about the Gamalstad site, where we worked in 2009 (you can find my earlier posts here and here). Before we set Gamalstad aside to focus on the upcoming field season, I’...
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2012
09
Mar
Finishing Our Student Updates
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
Our last update for the time being comes from Ahren Wardwell, who was one of our students in 2008, at the first Mule Creek field school.
Ahren writes: "I finished my BA in anthropology at Hendrix in 2009 and immediately started seeking ...
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2012
05
Mar
Catching Up, continued
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Here are a few more updates from our field school students and staff.
From Meaghan Trowbridge (2010 Volunteer and 2011 Field Supervisor): "Since last August, I have worked for Statistical Research, Inc,. doing cultural resource ...
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2012
23
Feb
Updates from Our Students and Staff
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
I thought I’d share a series of updates about what some of our former Mule Creek field school students and staff members have been doing lately. Here is the first installment:
From Jake Mitchell (2011 Field School, Hendrix Coll...
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2012
03
Feb
The Sherds of Gamalstad: Ceramic Chronology in Mule Creek
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
In a post back in October, I discussed the Late Pithouse period at Gamalstad, one of the sites we investigated during the 2009 field season. As I wrote then, we have evidence of a substantial pithouse occupation (c. A.D. 550–1000), underneath s...
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2012
27
Jan
Fruitful Discussions at the Southwest Symposium
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist, with Katherine Dungan, Research Associate
A few weekends ago, several Archaeology Southwest staff members had the opportunity to attend the 13th Biennial Southwest Symposium in Albuquerque, New Mexico. This year’s symposium title was “...
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