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2024
07
Oct
Revitalizing and Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: My Experiences at CoLang 2024
Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(October 7, 2024)—This past summer, from June 3 to 28, I had the pleasure of attending CoLang. Formally known as the Institute on Collaborative Language Research, CoLang is a biennial institute centered on training in language revitalizat...
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2024
29
Sep
For the Love of Land and the Sacredness of Landscapes
Aaron Wright’s edited volume Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology
is now available from the University of Utah Press
Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist
(September 30, 2024)—I remember the drive like it was yesterday.
I was on a loop of the Four Corn...
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2024
05
Sep
On Conferencing & Indigenous Data Sovereignty
Skylar Begay (Diné), Director of Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow
Joshua Watts, cyberSW Manager
(September 5, 2024)—In this post, we offer some individual reflections on our participation in several professional conferences...
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2024
03
Sep
New Research on Old Turkeys in the Mimbres Area
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(September 2, 2024)—One of the many fun and interesting things I got to do this summer while working at the WNMU Museum with our Preservation Archaeology Field School team was a rapid assessme...
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2024
03
Sep
A Decade of Weathering: The Mule Creek House
Allen Denoyer, Ancient Technologies Expert
(September 1, 2024)—In 2014, I joined the Archaeology Southwest Field School staff. The field school had been operating out of Mule Creek, New Mexico, for several years prior, and I was brought in to develop and teach the experiential component of the cu...
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2024
13
Aug
Floodplain Fusion
Jonathan Hazel, Arizona State University
(July 15, 2024)—Recently, my cohort within the field school wrapped up a week of archaeological survey along the banks of the Mimbres River. We uncovered a diverse array of ceramic sherds—brownwares, redwares, bowls, jars—each piece a testament to the ...
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2024
13
Aug
Making and Cataloguing Jewelry
Lydia-Ann Snyder, Arizona State University
(July 15, 2024)—Although I would not consider myself to be a particularly stylish person, I can recognize beauty in other people’s wardrobes. Fashion is not usually something people think about when considering the past. It is easy to assume that cloth...
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2024
31
Jul
Reaching out to Indigenous Youth
Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
(July 31, 2024)—We had three incredible opportunities to spend quality time with Indigenous young people this summer. Here, I share my reflections on those occasions, as well as those of some of my ...
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2024
05
Jul
Archaeological Survey at NAN Ranch
Cassie Merrill, UNC Chapel Hill
(July 3, 2024)—For the past week, I have had the opportunity to explore the Chihuahuan Desert at NAN Ranch in Faywood, New Mexico, as part of the field survey rotation during the 2024 Preservation Archaeology Field School. Our group has learned how to conduct archa...
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2024
03
Jul
Hands On, Phone Off
Mikayla Vasquez-Salgado, University of New Mexico
(June 28, 2024)—My time with Archaeology Southwest has already been an eye-opening and informative experience. During our first week of field school, my rotation was experimental archaeology. I found out firsthand (literally) just how much work it...
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2024
03
Jul
Preservation Archaeology Field School 3.0!
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(June 27, 2024)—Preservation Archaeology Field School is back, and I couldn’t be happier about it! After a one-year hiatus for planning, we’ve just begun a new field school program focused...
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2024
10
Jun
Celebrating the First Anniversary of the Greater Chaco Land Withdrawal
Paul F. Reed, New Mexico State Director
Preservation Archaeologist
(June 10, 2024)—On the one-year anniversary of the administrative withdrawal of Federal lands in the 10-mile zone around Chaco Canyon to protect its cultural resources from oil & gas drilling, I reflect on this hard-won victo...
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