2021
14
Dec
Ancient Indigenous Farming Strategies as Climate Solutions
Dear Friends,
Two shots and a booster. Everyone at the Southwest Seminars in-person lecture I gave on Monday evening in Santa Fe met those criteria—including me. And we were masked and socially distanced. (I did remove my mask for my presentation.)
I opened my talk by thanking the audien...
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2021
01
Feb
A Tonto Basin Journey
Chris Caseldine, Preservation Archaeology Postdoc
(February 1, 2021)—During my time at Archaeology Southwest, I have been afforded the opportunity to expand my research interests. I furthered a study of Hohokam irrigation that I began during my dissertation research, gained new insights into an...
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2020
24
Mar
Educational and Public Archaeology Resources Online
Educational and Public Archaeology Resources Online
Last week, Lewis Borck (University of Missouri) organized a community-crowdsourced spreadsheet of archaeology/history-oriented educational and public content online as a resource for teachers and students looking for activities/readings/videos the...
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2020
19
Mar
Life of the Gila: Salado—Bringing Worlds Together
Jeff Clark, Preservation Archaeologist
(March 20, 2020)—In the late 1200s CE, during a great drought, a few thousand people left settlements in what is now northeastern Arizona. They immigrated south toward perennial streams in the central and eastern Gila Watershed, where they lived alongside ...
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2019
27
Sep
Eight Sites in 48 Hours
Stacy Ryan, Preservation Archaeologist
(September 27, 2019)—I recently joined my Archaeology Southwest coworkers on our annual staff retreat, which entails exploring archaeological sites, connecting to landscapes, and learning a few new skills. This year, we experienced Salado and Mimbres arc...
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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
24
Jun
Time and Change
This post is one in our annual series of essays by our Preservation Archaeology Field School students. We invite you to continue following along with their experiences over the next few weeks.
Andrea Dalton, Mesa Community College
(June 24, 2019)—At New Mexico's Gila River Farm site, where we ...
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2019
05
Apr
Road Trips, Research, and Site Protection in Southwest New Mexico
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(April 5, 2019)—One of the most interesting parts of our work here at Archaeology Southwest is the interplay between research and site protection. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend a weekend visiting archaeological sites in the upper G...
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2018
11
Dec
Do Better by Chaco
Commentary: Do Better by Chaco
However, outside the pueblos, little information is available about the Pueblos’ ties to the Greater Chaco Region that would enable the BLM to meet its mandated duties. Pueblo ethnographic information is scarce or entirely absent from the archaeological and academic...
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2018
11
Dec
Life in the Cliff Valley, 1300-1450
Our guest author for this post is undergraduate Chris LaRoche. Chris received his Associate’s Degree from Pima Community College’s archaeology program, and also attended the Preservation Archaeology Field School as a Pima student. He is now an anthropology major at the University of Arizona, whe...
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2018
26
Nov
Along the Gila Watershed
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(November 26, 2018)—One of our current areas of research here at Archaeology Southwest is focused on how archaeological culture areas along the Gila River were connected in the past. Our Fluid Identities research program examines how people in th...
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2018
07
Aug
Identity Politics, Past and Present
Aaron Wright, Preservation Archaeologist
(August 7, 2018)—Social identity has emerged as a field of concerted archaeological inquiry in the Southwest and beyond. At Archaeology Southwest, we’ve been thinking a lot about how people create and express social identities at multiple scales, and...
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