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2024
06
Feb

What If TCM? A Multivocal Introduction

(February 6, 2024)—This is the third in a new series of posts that will consider the future of Preservation Archaeology. Each post will introduce a Preservation Archaeology Position Paper. Today we’re debuting “Tribal Co-Management: What Works Where and How.” We welcome and encourage fee...
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2024
04
Feb

I’itoi’s Swords: Imagining and Creating a Weapon from a Tohono O’odham Story

Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert (February 5, 2024)—In May 2023, Tohono O’odham museum curator April Ignacio contacted me to see if I would be interested in creating some obsidian swords for an exhibition they were planning. “They Don’t Love You: I...
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2024
07
Jan

Hands-On Archaeology: How to Make a Tabular Saw

Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert (January 8, 2024)—In today’s post, I’ll show you how to make a simple agave-processing tool. Although archaeologists generally call these “tabular knives,” experiments indicate that people probably used them more ...
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2023
29
Nov

Looking Back, Looking Forward: cyberSW and the Tribal Working Group

(November 30, 2023)—Boozhoo (“hello” in Ojibwemowin), I am Ashleigh Thompson, an enrolled member of the Red Lake Ojibwe Nation. I work as Director of Tribal Collaboration in Research and Education at Archaeology Southwest. Helping form the cyberSW Tribal Working Group (TWG) was one of my fi...
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2023
02
Nov

Walking the Walk: Applying the Tribal Collaboration Model

Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy Ashleigh Thompson, Red Lake Ojibwe, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Research & Education (November 2, 2023)—On April 27, 2023, we published “A Model for Tribal Collaboration at Archaeolog...
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2023
06
Oct

Community Stewardship in the San Pedro Valley

Alex Binford-Walsh, San Pedro Community Steward (October 6, 2023)—Hi all! As the new San Pedro Community Steward for Archaeology Southwest, I’m looking forward to promoting Preservation Archaeology and Tribes’ interests in the San Pedro Watershed and adjacent territory. Here’s what...
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2023
28
Sep

Bug Bling! How to Make a Necklace out of Beetle Legs

Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert (September 28, 2023)—When I was visiting Mission Garden this past summer during the height of the fig harvest, I was amazed to see thousands of beetles eating ripe figs. I grew up calling these “June bugs,” but in the...
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2023
25
Sep

On the Trail of Trails: A Dialogue

John R. Welch, Director, Landscape and Site Preservation Program Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist (September 26, 2023)—Archaeology Southwest is, of late, blazing trails in the Archaeology of Trails! Aaron (AW) has been documenting traces of ancient trails in present-day southern Arizo...
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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
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
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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2023
26
Jun

Reflections of the Great Bend

Skylar Begay, Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa, Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach and Advocacy, with Angelo Cortez, Cahokia Phoenix Reposted from and with the permission of our partners at Respect Great Bend. (June 27, 2023)—As part of the campaign to secure permanent protections for the Great...
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