2025
20
Oct
BREAKING: Interior Plans to Cut More Than 2,000 Jobs
Dear Friends,
With heavy hearts and our thoughts going out to our many friends and colleagues in service at Interior, we are saddened and frustrated to bring you today’s headline article on looming cuts at the department. The news broke yesterday, and this is a developing story, still in the co...
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2025
13
Oct
Archaeologist Receives MacArthur Genius Grant
Dear Friends,
Last week, we welcomed friends and colleagues to the Corona Room at our Bates Mansion headquarters in downtown Tucson not once, but twice!
The first was Tuesday, October 7, when preservation archaeologist Paul Reed presented “A Very Special Landscape: Trails and the Lava Fields...
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2025
05
Oct
National Parks and Public Lands in Turmoil
Good morning, Friends,
Here is your Preservation Archaeology news of the week. Please send us news stories; interviews, podcasts, publications, and jobs; notices of upcoming events and webinars; info about forthcoming tours and workshops; and anything else you’d like to share with this group. T...
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2025
30
Sep
Four Nations Symposium on Sonoran Rock Imagery Concludes
Proceedings will be shared in a forthcoming volume
Tucson, Ariz. (September 30, 2025)—Last week, Preservation Anthropologist Aaron Wright, of Tucson-based nonprofit Archaeology Southwest, convened a three-day seminar at Amerind, a museum, art gallery, and research center in Dragoon, Arizona. Enti...
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2025
29
Sep
Continuing Coverage & Commentary: Imminent Threats to Public Lands, Parks, and History
Dear Friends,
Another week, another road trip or two.
Honestly, I’m still getting used to the post-Labor Day change in cadence here in Tucson. The extreme heat and the lack of students and snow birds in town really do mean that life is slower in summer. This past weekend, in order to make ti...
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2025
29
Sep
Celebrating Tribal Historic Preservation: Our Takeaways from the NATHPO Conference
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
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Anastasia Walhovd (Red Cliff Band of Lake Superior Chippewa), BIA ARPA Assistance Initiative & Save History
Shannon Cowell, Director, BIA ARPA Assistance Initiative & Save History
Amy...
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2025
29
Sep
Advocating for Public Lands in 2025
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
(September 29, 2025)—There is no mistaking that protections for public lands, and even public lands themselves, are under attack.
You may have seen how the entire country came together to stop t...
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2025
22
Sep
Celebrate Public Lands Day This Weekend
Dear Friends,
This week, I bring greetings from northern New Mexico! Yesterday, I drove my favorite blue highways through southeastern Arizona and west-central New Mexico, to ultimately arrive in Albuquerque and then Santa Fe for a couple days’ work with the Department of Cultural Affairs.
O...
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2025
16
Sep
Tribal Leaders Push for Chaco Protections
Dear Friends,
Some of you long-timers already know this history, so bear with me for the folks who don’t.
This weekly newsletter, Preservation Archaeology Today, has been around in some form or another for more than two decades.
Its earliest iteration was founded by archaeologist Brian W....
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2025
08
Sep
Continuing Coverage: Smithsonian’s Initial Response
Dear Friends,
This past weekend, I drove to Cortez, Colorado, to attend a beautiful celebration of Dr. William (Bill) Lipe’s life. Bill passed away on April 9, 2025, about a month shy of his 90th birthday. He lived a remarkably full life, as a person and an archaeologist.
The event took plac...
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2025
01
Sep
Tucson’s Big Block Party Was a Big Success
Dear Friends,
On Saturday, August 23, thousands of people gathered in downtown Tucson to celebrate Tucson’s 250th anniversary. The air was hot and the mood was festive. Vendors and exhibitors in and around the Presidio San Agustín del Tucsón showcased the myriad cultures, religions, nationali...
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2025
01
Sep
Hands-On Archaeology: How to Use Lac, the Amazing, Mystical Mastic
We hope you enjoy this post from our most prolific blogger, Allen Denoyer. Thanks for all the great posts, Allen!
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(August 29, 2025)—Earlier this year, I shared information about how to ethically harvest lac. Prior to that, conservator Marilen Pool wrote...
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