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2025
10
Jul

Learning to See

Carmen Elsasser, New York University (July 10, 2025)—Before arriving at Archaeology Southwest’s field school, my experience with archaeology was mostly limited to textbooks and classroom lectures. As an undergraduate student just beginning to study archaeology, I knew I was interested in the di...
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2025
10
Jul

Community through Oral History at the Gooch House

Alexis Cornett, University of Missouri (July 10, 2025)—Soon after arriving in Silver City, our group travelled to the Mimbres Culture Heritage Site to visit the museum and walk along the trail around the Mattocks archaeological site, which was dotted with Mimbres pottery. The abundance of sherds ...
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2025
10
Jul

Learning How to Survey II

Charles Shaw, Idaho State University (July 10, 2025)—Over the last week I have been learning about archaeological surveying techniques, a topic I was most excited to learn about during the field school. On June 23, three other students and I were taken out to a high Pleistocene terrace overlookin...
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2025
10
Jul

Learning How to Survey

Jaydn Johnson, Mesa Community College (July 10, 2025)—At the field school, we get to experience three different areas of archaeology during our weekly workday rotations: archaeological survey, experimental archaeology, and museum work. My first workday rotation experience was learning how to surv...
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2025
09
Jul

Kicking off Our 2025 Field School Blog Posts!

Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School (July 10, 2025)—It’s summer, and that means our Preservation Archaeology Field School is back in action! If you follow us on social media (Instagram, Facebook), you’ve probably already see...
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2025
09
Jul

Reaching out to Youth, Year 2

Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy (July 10, 2025)—Last year, opportunities to work with both Indigenous and non-Indigenous youth presented themselves in a seemingly serendipitous way. I learned of the Bryan Brown Foundation while p...
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2025
03
Jul

This Edition's Stories Explore Why Heritage Preservation Is Essential

Dear Friends, I’ve just returned from the 10th World Archaeological Congress (WAC) in Darwin, Australia. Twenty years ago, I had the pleasure of working with the late Dr. Donny George Youkhanna, the director general of the Iraq Museum in Baghdad when it was looted on April 10, 2003. Donny re...
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2025
26
Jun

Update from the Tribal Working Group

Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy With Jeff Clark, Ritchie Sahneyah, Lyle Balenquah, Garrett W. Briggs, Caitlynn Mayhew, and Wade Campbell (June 27, 2025)—Ya’at’eeh (Hello)! Skylar Begay, Director of Tribal Collaboration here....
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2025
19
Jun

Threats to Public Lands Intensify

Dear Friends, Fair warning: This note is not about archaeology, at least not per se. It’s about my attempts to make meaning out of the chaos that seems to get even more chaotic by the day. I try to work out every weekday. The elliptical machine is my tool of choice. With some Air pods cranki...
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2025
10
Jun

Defending the 10-Mile Protection Zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park

Paul F. Reed, New Mexico Director and Preservation Archaeologist  (June 11, 2025)—Interior Secretary Burgum is considering reduction options for the 10-mile protection zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park—either revocation of the entire withdrawal or reduction in size or types of...
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2025
05
Jun

June 7 Is a Day of Action for Public Lands

Dear Friends, It’s hard to believe, but we’re fast approaching the summer solstice on Friday, June 20. In the northern hemisphere, the summer solstice is longest day of the year. Here in Tucson, daytime highs are again breaching 100 degrees, but the early morning temperature is just about ...
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2025
29
May

US Archaeology’s Imperiled Future

Dear Friends, Tuesday, May 27, was a rollercoaster, whipsaw day for those of us who support the myriad efforts to protect places that are important to Indigenous culture, history, and ecology. Midday, within minutes of each other, the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) and the 9th Cir...
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