Southwest Archaeology Today for May 14, 2007

Archaeology Making the News – A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology

– Craig Childs Continues to Examine Phoenix in Relation to the Hohokam: Phoenix, which has more than doubled to nearly 4 million residents over the last two decades, is growing faster than any other population center in the nation. Thirty new skyscrapers are proposed for downtown alone, while metastatic sprawl carves up surrounding desert. But if you lift the rug of Phoenix, buried directly below you will find the remains of an ancient city, a Neolithic version of Phoenix.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/hlsa – Arizona Republic

– Mesa Verde National Park Joins Monte Alban and Paquime in a Sister Parks program: An international group gathered at Mesa Verde National Park on Wednesday to make history. The group, which included representatives from two archaeological parks in Mexico, Zona Arqueol