2014
12
Mar
Not Exactly a Vacant Lot!
By Stephen Darling, Archaeology Southwest Member since 2013
This past Saturday morning, March 8, my wife Anne-Marie, my friend Steve Cox, and I attended Archaeology Southwest’s 2014 Annual Members’ Gathering, which featured a walking tour of the Valencia site. Owned by Pima Community College an...
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2014
20
Feb
A Visit to the Steam Pump Ranch Pithouse
Today's guest author is Nanette Weaver, Arizona Site Steward Regional Coordinator for the Lower and Middle San Pedro River valley.
Have you ever stood looking at the vague outline of a Hohokam pithouse and tried to visualize what the whole house looked like? I know that I, for one, as a Site Stew...
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2014
30
Jan
From Above: Images of a Storied Land
By Adriel Heisey, Photographer
I grew up in a land cloaked in verdure, where time and the elements have long since softened every bold edge, so the desert’s nakedness will always turn my head. Even now, after living here a quarter century, when I fly through this land laid bare by clima...
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2013
21
Jul
Tribal Consultation in the Kaibab National Forest and Vermilion Cliffs National Monument
Today's guest author is Connie Reid, an Archaeologist with the Kaibab National Forest:
“Sometimes you get homesick, but here you don’t. It feels normal and like you were back to where you were before. You have a sense of being. Everything is there and you can feel it. You don’t have any feel...
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2013
16
Jul
Life with New Mexico's Weather
By Trevor McLam, field school student from Washington State University
As one might expect of a place that has been called the Great American Desert, the first thing one notices upon arrival is that it is hot. But it truly is a dry heat, which helps immensely. When we arrived in Mule Creek, it was ...
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2013
09
Jul
Visiting Chaco Canyon
By Thatcher Rogers, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse
The weekend field trip to Chaco Canyon began splendidly with an informative visit to Zuni. Due to purchasing a large number of zoomorphic figures associated with water, we were unfortunately deterred by rains from accomplishing our original g...
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2013
08
Jul
Archaeology Students on the Loose!
By Jay Stephens, University of Arizona
After a long and hard five weeks of excavation and lab work, we were turned loose on a three day trip to Chaco Canyon and the pueblos of Acoma and Zuni. It is difficult to summarize all of the amazing landscapes and sites that we saw over the long weekend, a...
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2013
28
Jun
Experimental Archaeology at Mule Creek
By David Loome, field school student from Northern Arizona University/Coconino Community College
As students at the Preservation Archaeology Field School at Mule Creek, we are exposed almost every day to the tools and technology used by people in the past. By analyzing and studying artifacts like...
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2013
27
Jun
Summer Solstice Sites in Southwestern Arizona
Introduction by Andy Laurenzi, Southwest Field Representative
Of the several rewarding elements of my job, meeting and traveling with site stewards is certainly one of the most enjoyable. As our first line of defense in our collective efforts to safeguard ancient sites, site stewards have been mo...
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2013
25
Jun
Sharing Archaeology with the Community, Part I
By Dorothy Kilgore, field school student from the College of Western Idaho
On June 15, 2013, Archaeology Southwest field students and staff performed a community outreach day at the Gila Community Center in New Mexico. Stations included an artifact show-and-tell, a pottery-making station, an artifa...
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2013
21
Jun
Gila Cliff Dwellings
By Heather Seltzer, field school student from SUNY Binghamton
On Sunday, we took a break from excavating and lab work and headed to the Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument. After being decently shook up on the long bumpy road, we piled out of the van. Before we went to tour the Mimbres-Mogollon...
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2013
12
Jun
Meet Our Cook
By Emily Reed, field school student from the University of Connecticut
Excavating the Dinwiddie site has been exhausting. With the sun beating down on us constantly while we pick-axe and shovel into the hard ground, we are all drained by the end of the day. Our thirty-minute ride from Dinwid...
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