2023
19
Sep
Continuing Coverage: Pueblo Leaders Defend Chaco Protection Zone in DC
Dear Friends,
I have long been interested in changes in population—demography—in my archaeological studies and as a global phenomenon. With colleagues, I have suggested that population numbers may have dropped by as much as 75 percent in the southern Southwest over the century from 1350 to 14...
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2023
12
Sep
All Pueblo Council of Governors in DC to Advocate for Chaco Protection Zone
Dear Friends,
Today’s note comes with my thanks to Linda Vossler, Archaeology Southwest’s Amazing Office Manager. Linda sent our staff a reminder email that our monthly staff lunch this Friday—which we are so fortunate and grateful she organizes—will be catered by the San Xavier Co-op: ...
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2023
11
Sep
Call to Action: Support Common-Sense Reforms to Oil-Gas Leasing on Public Lands
Interior Dept. takes steps to modernize oil and gas leasing on public lands, ensure fair return to taxpayers
Comment now
Tucson, Ariz. and Taos, N.M. (September 11, 2023)—We and our coalition partners commend the Bureau of Land Management (BLM), the Department of the Interior, and the Bi...
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2023
05
Sep
Proclamation on National Wilderness Month
Dear Friends,
Reading books. Not reading books. Re-reading books.
Since I was very young, reading has been a passion. But, for a long dry spell during my early and middle professional career, there simply wasn’t time to read books.
Then, in the early portion of my “late professional car...
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2023
04
Sep
NSF Grant News to Share!
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(September 5, 2023)—I recently received some wonderful news: My friends and colleagues Jeff Clark and Mike Diehl and I have been awarded a new grant from the National Science Foundation to s...
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2023
29
Aug
Evidence that People Bred Macaws at Mimbres Site
Dear Friends,
Over the past 10 days I spent several days in Traverse City, Michigan, four days in San Diego, California, and a half-day on Mount Lemmon, a peak just outside of Tucson that rises over 9,100 feet.
These places have an important thing in common—they are MUCH cooler than Tucson.
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2023
28
Aug
Indigenous Sustainability and "Little Elders"
Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(August 29, 2023)—Yá’át’ééh shik’éí dóó shidine’é. Shí éí Caitlynn Mayhew yinishyé. Kin Łichii'nii nishłį́ dóó Bilagáana bashishchiin. Táchii’nii dashicheii dóó Bilagáana dashinalí. K’aabiizhii Nasdlah...
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2023
23
Aug
An Audio Postcard from Mesa Verde National Park
Dear Friends,
Good morning! And I say that because it’s 6:30 a.m. here in San Diego as I begin to write this.
I’ll confess. I forgot about you.
I take that as a good sign. It suggests that I really can occasionally step away from work and relax. Last evening—at the time I am normally ...
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2023
15
Aug
Monuments Lawsuit Dismissed; Antiquities Act Holds
Dear Friends,
Last Friday, a federal judge made a big decision.
Judge Nuffer, a Utah District Court Judge, dismissed Utah lawsuits that challenged President Biden’s use of the Antiquities Act of 1906 to restore Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
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2023
15
Aug
On Head Shaking While Others Nod: Archaeology Southwest’s Collaborative Opposition to the SunZia Power Line
Archaeology Southwest issues statement on recent Notice of Dispute
sent to BLM Director Stone-Manning
John R. Welch, Bill Doelle, Skylar Begay, and Ashleigh Thompson
Tucson, Ariz. (August 15, 2023)—On August 4, 2023, Archaeology Southwest, the Tohono O’odham Nation, and the San Carlos Apach...
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2023
08
Aug
Meet the Newest US National Monument, Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni
Dear Friends,
Today’s greeting began in my laundry room over the weekend. The latest issue of Journal of the Southwest arrived last week, and it features an article by my friend Bill Doolittle. Bill is a geographer who is retiring after a long career at the University of Texas at Austin. It’s...
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2023
02
Aug
The Story of Our Headquarters
Linda J. Pierce, Deputy Director
(August 2, 2023)—I’ve been thinking lately about places and their role in our stories. Humans are all about stories. We tell ourselves and others stories all the time—about our past, our future, about what things mean, about why it all matters. We can tell o...
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