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2025
22
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at SAA 2025: Where to Find Us
Sara Anderson, Director of Outreach
Banner image: R0uge, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
(April 23, 2025)—As we head to the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting in Denver this week, I’ve been reflecting on something we heard loud and clear during our Appreciative Inquiry...
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2025
14
Apr
In Memoriam: Bill Lipe
Particular to Preserve
The Life and Legacy of William D. Lipe
R. E. Burrillo, Archaeology Southwest Research Associate
(April 14, 2025)—In 2014, I attended the annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Austin, Texas, to present a research project for which I’d cooked b...
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2025
07
Apr
Hands-On Archaeology: Winter Count 2025
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(April 7, 2025)—As some of you know from my previous posts about this seriously earthy event, Winter Count is an ancient/ancestral skills gathering that has been happening in Arizona’s Sonoran Desert for the past 30 years. I’ve attended as many as I ...
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2025
27
Mar
Update on the Ninth Circuit Hearing Regarding the SunZia Case
John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration
(March 27, 2025)—Friends, you find me cautiously optimistic after my day (as a spectator) in court: The Ninth Circuit panel was skeptical about federal government and industry claims for the legality of the approval process for the ...
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2025
27
Feb
What You Need to Know about NSF Grants
(February 27, 2025)—Grants have been in the news lately, including grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Adults reading this in the US support NSF programs every year when we pay federal taxes. Most of us have paid around 44 cents a year for NSF programs, including just over one penny...
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2025
11
Feb
Emerging Attacks on Our Public Lands
Paul F. Reed, New Mexico Director and Preservation Archaeologist
(February 11, 2025)—Dramatic and harmful changes in Department of Interior management policies are beginning to emerge from the new administration. Last week, Interior Secretary Doug Burgum released Secretarial Order (SO) 3418. Th...
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2025
02
Feb
What cyberSW's New NEH Award Is Making Possible
Sarah Oas, Preservation Archaeologist
Caitlynn Mayhew, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(February 3, 2025)—On January 16, 2025, we proudly announced that cyberSW had received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for a new initiative, “Expanding cybe...
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2025
21
Jan
Hands-On Archaeology: How to (Ethically) Harvest Lac
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(January 22, 2025)—What is lac, and why do we care how it is harvested?
If you haven’t yet read Marilen Pool’s recent post on lac, go do that now. Marilen explains what it is and how people have used it through time. Some years ago, Marilen attend...
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2024
01
Dec
Preserving the Ray Robinson Collection: Avocational Efforts in Preservation and Research
Jaye Smith, Joyce Clarke, Mary Graham, Phillip Hunger, Harlow Sires, and Valerie Freireich-Kaplan, Robinson Project Researchers
Jeffery J. Clark, Vice President for Research, Archaeology Southwest
Paper presented at the 2024 Pecos Conference, August 2, 2024.
Abstract
In 2015, the Arizona St...
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2024
25
Nov
Return to Cove, Arizona
Paul F. Reed, New Mexico State Director and Preservation Archaeologist
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Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow
Ben Pelletier, Preservation Archaeologist
(November 26, 2024)—I was thrilled to return to Cove and Red Valley, Arizona, with Ben Pelletier, Caitlynn Mayhew, and R...
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2024
19
Nov
A Day in the Great Bend of the Gila
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director of Tribal Collaboration
(November 20, 2024)—Many readers will likely be aware of the Respect Great Bend national monument campaign and coalition, which involves 13 organizations and which Archaeology Southwest helps lead. The coalition works tog...
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2024
31
Oct
Insect Lac in Southwestern Cultural Heritage
Marilen Pool, Sonoran Art Conservation Services, LLC
(November 19, 2024)—Several species of Tachardiella, lac scale insects, live in the arid Southwest as sessile phloem feeders on a variety of different host plants from various families. The insects produce a hard, waxy, resinous coating as a de...
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