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Apr/05/2019
Road Trips, Research, and Site Protection in Southwest New Mexico
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(April 5, 2019)—One of the most interesting parts of our work here at Archaeology Southwest is the interplay between research and site protection. Two weeks ago, I had the opportunity to spend a weekend visiting archaeological sites in the upper G...
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Nov/17/2014
Draw, Scan, Make, and Model: Complementary Approaches to Understanding Ston...
Lance K. Trask, Scientific Illustrator and Archaeology Southwest Member
There has been a shift from publishing scientific illustrations of artifacts to publishing photographs. Although there are a number of reasons for this, the primary one is that technical illustrations are a unique art form, and ...
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Sep/26/2014
Rooms of Our Own
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
As one of the newest Archaeology Southwest staff members, I still marvel at how peaceful, inviting, and singular our workplace is. I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Archaeology Southwest library lately, researching older excavations in ...
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Sep/12/2014
Meltdown!
By Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
On September 8, 2014, southern Arizona received heavy rains from a hurricane (Norbert) moving up along the Baja California of Mexico. Previous rains had caused some damage to our pilot pithouse experiment, but Mond...
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Sep/11/2014
Flooding Down in Arizona
By Matt Peeples, Preservation Archaeologist
For those of us living in central and southern Arizona, Monday was a record-breaking day of rain. Many parts of the Phoenix metro area received more than 3 to 5 inches within a 24-hour period. To put that in perspective, the Phoenix area typically...
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Apr/03/2014
Tracking Canals in the Safford Basin: A Tale of Fate 34 & 54 Years in ...
By James A. Neely, Professor Emeritus, University of Texas at Austin
This story begins in the summer of 1994, when I accompanied Kyle Woodson—one of my graduate students at the University of Texas at Austin—into the field to get him started on excavations for his master’s thesis project at t...
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Sep/26/2013
Routes to the New World
By Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist and Chaco Scholar at Salmon Ruins
Recently, I was a guest on the Scott Michlin Morning Program at KSJE, the San Juan College radio station in Farmington, New Mexico, where I discussed recent findings regarding migrations to the New World. (Listen ...
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Aug/07/2011
The Chaco Experience
EVENT: The Chaco Experience
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, November 1, 2011, at 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Casa Vicente, 375 S. Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ.
ADMISSION: Free and open to the community—all are welcome. Seating is open and unreserved. Guests are encouraged to support our host, Casa Vicente, by buying...
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Apr/01/2011
Paso por aquí with Lasers
Increasingly fragile messages from the past...
EVENT: Paso por aquí with Lasers: LIDAR Documentation at El Morro National Monument
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, April 5, 2011, at 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Casa Vicente, 375 S. Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ.
ADMISSION: Free and ope...
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Mar/01/2011
What Obsidian Studies Hath Wrought
EVENT: What Obsidian Studies Hath Wrought in the Southwest
DATE/TIME: Tuesday, March 1, 2011, at 6:00 p.m.
LOCATION: Casa Vicente, 375 S. Stone Avenue, Tucson, AZ.
ADMISSION: Free and open to the community—all are welcome. Seating is open and unreserved. Guests are en...
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Jan/21/2011
2011 Mule Creek Field School
Center for Desert Archaeology and University of Arizona
2011 Preservation Archaeology Field School at Mule Creek, NM
The Center for Desert Archaeology and the University of Arizona School of Anthropology are offering a preservation archaeology field school from May 29 through July 4, 2011. The fiel...