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2017
30
May

New Site Protection Acquisition: The Fleming Parcel

Aaron Wright, Preservation Archaeologist (May 30, 2017)—Another site protection success! On May 22, 2017, we closed on the Fleming parcel, 120 acres in the lower Gila River valley. We purchased 40 acres, and Gail Fleming, Trustee for the Lawrence J. and Gail Fleming Trust, donated an addition...
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2017
29
May

Department of the Interior Receives Overwhelming Public Support for Bears Ears

Department of the Interior Receives Overwhelming Public Support for Bears Ears Supporters of Bears Ears National Monument sent a flood of comments to the Department of the Interior urging that the Utah monument be protected, with more than 685,000 messages of support submitted in just 15 days....“...
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2017
24
May

A Resolution of the Board of Directors for Archaeology Southwest in opposition to any efforts to revoke or diminish Bears Ears National Monument

RESOLUTION A Resolution of the Board of Directors for Archaeology Southwest in opposition to any efforts to revoke or diminish Bears Ears National Monument. Whereas, Presidential Executive Order 13792 of April 26, 2017, directs the Secretary of the Interior to conduct a review of all Presidential ...
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2017
21
May

Burning Down the (Pit) House

Burning Down the (Pit) House In 2015, volunteers joined me in building a half-scale model of a typical dwelling from the Early Agricultural period (2000 B.C.–A.D. 50) in the Tucson Basin. We built the model near our full-scale replica Hohokam pithouse at Steam Pump Ranch in Oro Valley, a public pr...
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2017
19
May

Burning Down the (Pit) House, part 1

Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert (May 19, 2017)—In 2015, volunteers joined me in building a half-scale model of a typical dwelling from the Early Agricultural period (2000 B.C.–A.D. 50) in the Tucson Basin. We built the model near our full-scale replic...
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2017
15
May

How to Protect Our National Monuments

Archaeology Southwest's President and CEO on How to Protect Our National Monuments On April 26, 2017, the President issued an executive order requiring the Department of the Interior to review national monument designations since 1996 that are greater than 100,000 acres.This order assails the fundam...
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2017
12
May

For Bears Ears, Our National Monuments, and the Antiquities Act

Bill Doelle, President & CEO (May 12, 2017)—The outraged community had the Swedish scientist arrested. The scientist, Gustav Nordenskiöld (1868–1895), had undertaken quite good archaeological excavations, by today’s standards, at cliff dwellings in southwestern Colorado’s Mesa ...
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2017
09
May

Boats to Trenches

Adam Sezate, University of Arizona and 2016 Preservation Archaeology Field School alumnus (May 9, 2017)—What does a person with a B.S. in History from the United States Naval Academy do after eight years in the U.S. fleet? During the two years before I turned in my uniform, I asked myself this ...
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2017
08
May

Borck Joins Faculty of Leiden University

(May 9, 2017)—Archaeology Southwest is pleased to share the news that former Preservation Fellow and current postdoctoral researcher Lewis Borck will be joining the Faculty of Archaeology at Universiteit Leiden in the Netherlands as a Lecturer/Researcher in September 2017. "This is an amazing opp...
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2017
07
May

Bears Ears and Monument Reviews

Interior Department Lists Monuments under Review: Opportunity for Public Comments Opens May 13 The Department of the Interior today announced the first ever formal public comment period for members of the public to officially weigh in on monument designations under the Antiquities Act of 1906, and ...
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