2020
25
Feb
Congressional Subcommittee Hearing Today: "Destroying Sacred Sites and Erasing Tribal Culture"
Continuing Coverage: Congressional Subcommittee Hearing Today on Desecration at Border
Association on American Indian Affairs Executive Director and Attorney Shannon Keller O’Loughlin will testify to Congress Wednesday that recent U.S. government destruction of Native American sacred sites for th...
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2020
28
Jan
Continuing Coverage: Chaco Buffer Zone
Continuing Coverage: Chaco Buffer Zone
Months after the U.S. House passed a bill that would create a long-sought, 10-mile drilling ban on federal land around Chaco Culture National Historical Park, the Navajo Nation is demanding Congress cut the proposed protection zone in half. The Navajo Nation C...
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2019
02
Aug
Learning with Adobe
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(August 2, 2019)—I wanted to follow up on Leslie’s post about how our 2014–2015 adobe structure helped us interpret walls at the Gila River Farm site in 2019.
There is something almost metaphysical about mixing mud...
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2019
01
Aug
Clues from Experimental Archaeology
Leslie Aragon, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
(August 1, 2019)—Now that we’ve wrapped up another field season of the Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology Field School, I thought I’d take a minute to talk about what we learned at the Gila River Farm site this season. I especially want to sha...
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2019
12
Jul
Our Last Correspondence
July 12, 2019
Dear Glorious Readers,
This will be the last correspondence from all of us young-uns here in Cliff. By the time this is published, we’ll all most likely be clean, well-rested, and missing our wonderful ranch land and internet-free oasis. It has been a terrific and memorable tim...
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2019
11
Jul
“Disconnecting” at Field School
Alex Cullison, Beloit College
(July 11, 2019)—When I first got into this field school, I remember reading that this would be an excellent opportunity to “disconnect.” That sounded great in March: I was studying abroad at the time, and I was spending more and more of my time checking Twitter...
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2019
10
Jul
Hide and Squeak
Zaynab Chamalian, University of Southern Florida
(July 10, 2019)—Something I appreciate about my field school group and instructors is their willingness to try new things and let things happen. One experience like this was tanning mouse hides with Allen and my fellow student Sarah. Allen has ...
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2019
09
Jul
ICOMOS Releases Report on Cultural Heritage and Climate Change
ICOMOS Releases Report on Cultural Heritage and Climate Change
The “Future of Our Pasts: Engaging Cultural Heritage in Climate Action” report was released by ICOMOS [International Council on Monuments and Sites] on Wednesday 3 July 2019 in Baku, Republic of Azerbaijan at an event held during th...
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2019
03
Jul
Fighting the Downsizing of Bears Ears National Monument
Commentary: Fighting the Downsizing of Bears Ears National Monument
The value of a landscape scale is that it is the best tool to capture the diverse human stories represented in the archaeological record of an area. These maps and images make it clear that the Trump-downsized monument fails to enc...
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2019
01
Jul
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
On Monday, July 1, Allen Denoyer (Archaeology Southwest) will present a public lecture, "The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Mule Creek Obsidian," at the Preservation Archaeology Field School headquarters, 8179 Hwy 180 W, Cliff NM 88028. Look for the cream building with blue portable toilets on the nor...
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2019
01
Jul
Home Is Where the Hearth Is
Sarah Hinton, Texas State University
(July 1, 2019)—Spaces hold power through time. Your childhood home is still your childhood home, regardless of the amount of time that has passed since your last step across the threshold. Places where you experienced great joy are probably still fondly kept...
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2019
27
Jun
Shield Rock Art of Tsegi Canyon
On Thursday, June 27, Maxwell Forton (State University of New York Binghamton) will present a public lecture, "Shield Rock Art of Tsegi Canyon," at the Preservation Archaeology Field School headquarters, 8179 Hwy 180 W, Cliff NM 88028. Look for the cream building with blue portable toilets on the no...
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