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2025
10
Jul
Learning to See
Carmen Elsasser, New York University
(July 10, 2025)—Before arriving at Archaeology Southwest’s field school, my experience with archaeology was mostly limited to textbooks and classroom lectures. As an undergraduate student just beginning to study archaeology, I knew I was interested in the di...
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2025
10
Jul
Community through Oral History at the Gooch House
Alexis Cornett, University of Missouri
(July 10, 2025)—Soon after arriving in Silver City, our group travelled to the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site to visit the museum and walk along the trail around the Mattocks archaeological site, which was dotted with Mimbres pottery. The abundance of sherds ...
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2025
10
Jul
Learning How to Survey II
Charles Shaw, Idaho State University
(July 10, 2025)—Over the last week I have been learning about archaeological surveying techniques, a topic I was most excited to learn about during the field school. On June 23, three other students and I were taken out to a high Pleistocene terrace overlookin...
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2025
10
Jul
Learning How to Survey
Jaydn Johnson, Mesa Community College
(July 10, 2025)—At the field school, we get to experience three different areas of archaeology during our weekly workday rotations: archaeological survey, experimental archaeology, and museum work. My first workday rotation experience was learning how to surv...
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2025
09
Jul
Kicking off Our 2025 Field School Blog Posts!
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(July 10, 2025)—It’s summer, and that means our Preservation Archaeology Field School is back in action! If you follow us on social media (Instagram, Facebook), you’ve probably already see...
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2025
09
Jul
Reaching out to Youth, Year 2
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
(July 10, 2025)—Last year, opportunities to work with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth presented themselves in a seemingly serendipitous way. I learned of the Bryan Brown Foundation while p...
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2025
26
Jun
Update from the Tribal Working Group
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
With Jeff Clark, Ritchie Sahneyah, Lyle Balenquah, Garrett W. Briggs, Caitlynn Mayhew, and Wade Campbell
(June 27, 2025)—Ya’at’eeh (Hello)! Skylar Begay, Director of Tribal Collaboration here....
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2025
10
Jun
Defending the 10-Mile Protection Zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park
Paul F. Reed, New Mexico Director and Preservation Archaeologist
(June 11, 2025)—Interior Secretary Burgum is considering reduction options for the 10-mile protection zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park—either revocation of the entire withdrawal or reduction in size or types of...
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2025
22
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at SAA 2025: Where to Find Us
Sara Anderson, Director of Outreach
Banner image: R0uge, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
(April 23, 2025)—As we head to the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting in Denver this week, I’ve been reflecting on something we heard loud and clear during our Appreciative Inquiry...
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2025
17
Apr
Protecting Ancestral Lands: Nanbé Owingeh Installs Fence to Safeguard an Ancestral Pueblo
Sean O’Meara and Michael Spears, Principal Investigators at MOS Research, LLC
(May 1, 2025)—Atop a windswept mesa nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, opening onto sweeping views of the Pojoaque Basin and the Jemez Mountains, the Pueblo of Nambé—Nanbé Owingeh—recent...
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2025
14
Apr
In Memoriam: Bill Lipe
Particular to Preserve
The Life and Legacy of William D. Lipe
R. E. Burrillo, Archaeology Southwest Research Associate
(April 14, 2025)—In 2014, I attended the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin, Texas, to present a research project for which I’d cooked b...
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2025
07
Apr
Hands-On Archaeology: Winter Count 2025
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(April 7, 2025)—As some of you know from my previous posts about this seriously earthy event, Winter Count is an ancient/ancestral skills gathering that has been happening in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert for the past 30 years. I’ve attended as many as I ...
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