2017
27
Apr
Take Action: Stand with the Antiquities Act
Kate Sarther Gann, Communications Coordinator
(April 27, 2017)—An attack on one national monument is an attack on all national monuments.
On April 26, 2017, President Trump signed an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review national monument designations since 1996 ...
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2017
24
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at Tucson's March for Science
Leslie Aragon, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
(April 24, 2017)—Over the weekend, thousands of people across the country came together to march, rally, and speak out for science. In Tucson, an estimated 4,000 people came out to El Presidio Park to show their support for the S.T.E.M. fields. Loo...
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2017
07
Apr
I Took My Dremel to Vancouver
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(April 7, 2017)—Last week, several of us from Archaeology Southwest attended the Society for American Archaeology annual meetings in Vancouver, BC. Thousands of archaeologists migrated north and flocked to the Vancouver Convention Centre to s...
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2017
29
Mar
Hands-On Archaeology: How to Tan a Hide
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(March 29, 2017)—In this post I will describe the process of brain-tanning, which I learned last month at Winter Count. I have to admit, though I have seen the process in parts, it always looked like more work than I wanted...
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2017
03
Mar
Protecting Native Rock Art: Be a Good Guest!
Kirk Astroth, Archaeology Southwest Member and Volunteer
(March 3, 2017)—For the past 7 weeks, a team of us (Jaye Smith, Carl Evertsbusch, Fran Maiuri, Lance Trask, and I) have been working under the guidance of Aaron Wright to document the 594 boulders at the Painted Rock Petroglyph Site. I have...
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2017
17
Feb
Shade, Cultures, and Foxes
Carl Evertsbusch, Archaeology Southwest member and volunteer
(February 17, 2017)—Gripping a pole lashed to one end of an 8x10 piece of dark plastic, I drift off into scenes of kneeling in dirt making earthshaking archaeological discoveries. With no warning a breeze hits our homemade contraption...
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2017
16
Feb
Volunteerism
Jaye Smith, Archaeology Southwest member and volunteer
(February 16, 2016)—Volunteerism—I have thought about this word and its true meaning many times over the past 4 years, and when I originally decided to devote my remaining time on this magnificent planet to volunteer full time in the arch...
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2017
14
Feb
Documenting Painted Rock Petroglyph Site
Fran Maiuri, Archaeology Southwest member and volunteer
(February 14, 2017)—We’re in the middle of over 500 boulders with petroglyphs on them and we’re wearing bright orange vests that say ARCHAEOLOGIST. Five of us—Kirk Astroth, Carl Evertsbusch, Jaye Smith, and Lance Trask—are voluntee...
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2017
06
Feb
Take Action: Greater Chaco Landscape
Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist
(February 20, 2017)—DEADLINE TO COMMENT IS MIDNIGHT TONIGHT, MST, 2/20/17.
(Original post dated 2/7/17 follows)
First, thank you to everyone who has contacted me and Archaeology Southwest about taking action on behalf of the Greater Chaco Landscape...
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2017
31
Jan
Teaching Archaeology
Leslie Aragon, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
(January 31, 2017)—A couple of weeks ago, Lewis Borck and I (along with our friend and fellow archaeologist, Ashleigh Thompson) went to the Khalsa Montessori School here in Tucson to talk about archaeology to a group of first through third graders...
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2017
27
Jan
Facts, Biases, and How We Sift through Them
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(January 27, 2016)—As you know if you read this blog often, archaeologists instinctively draw on our training in anthropology and our studies of the past when we’re trying to understand the complexity of today’s world. To my surprise, an ...
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2017
19
Jan
Hands-On Archaeology: How to Make a Shell Tinkler
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(January 19, 2017)—Shell tinklers are a relatively common shell artifact we find in Hohokam and Salado archaeological sites in southern Arizona. Most are made of Conus shell or Olivella shell, both of which come from the ...
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