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Aug/25/2005
Southwest Archaeology Today for August 25, 2005
Archaeology making the news ... a service of the Center for Desert Archaeology.
- Sacred ground designations limited by Ninth Circuit: The San Carlos Apache Tribe may face limits in lawsuits aimed at protecting cultural, historical and sacred sites, including the San Carlos Reservoir and Mount Grah...
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Aug/22/2005
Southwest Archaeology Today for August 22, 2005
Archaeology making the news ... a service of the Center for Desert Archaeology
- Book digs into culture of an ancient people: Brian Fagan's Chaco Canyon: Archaeologists Explore the Lives of an Ancient Society (Oxford University Press, 2005).
http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/arizonaliving/ar...
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Jun/06/2005
Southwest Archaeology Today for June 6, 2005
- Endangered Places of the Past, Canyon of the Ancients: Canyons of the Ancients National Monument - Declared one of the 11 most endangered places in the US.
http://tinyurl.com/b68vw or
http://www.cortezjournal.com/asp-bin/article_generation.asp?article_type=news&article_path=/news/05/news05...
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Jun/01/2005
Southwest Archaeology Today for June 2, 2005
- New Exhibit at Museum of Northern Arizona: A new exhibit about the rock art of the Colorado Plateau, "Stories on Stone", opens on June 4th. From Robert Mark Ph.D. - Rupestrian CyberServices.
http://www.musnaz.org/exhibits/StoriesOnStone.html
- Tales of Southwestern Material Culture: America...
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Sep/10/2019
September Oil and Gas Lease Sale of Traditional Landscapes Criticized by Tr...
September Oil and Gas Lease Sale of Traditional Landscapes Criticized by Tribes
For the third time since last year, the Bureau of Land Management is auctioning oil and gas leases on archaeologically rich canyons and mesas in San Juan County, but this time in the face of opposition from local electe...
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Jul/03/2019
Fighting the Downsizing of Bears Ears National Monument
Commentary: Fighting the Downsizing of Bears Ears National Monument
The value of a landscape scale is that it is the best tool to capture the diverse human stories represented in the archaeological record of an area. These maps and images make it clear that the Trump-downsized monument fails to enc...
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Aug/14/2018
Origins of Chaco’s Scarlet Macaws
New Paper: Origins of Chaco’s Scarlet Macaws
And for more than a thousand years, these birds were traded north into what is now the southwestern United States in exchange for turquoise. The ancient Pueblo great houses of Chaco Canyon (in what's now New Mexico) started importing scarlet macaws fro...
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May/29/2018
More News and Views on New Bill to Protect Greater Chaco
More News and Views on New Bill to Protect Greater Chaco
The fight to preserve Chaco Canyon cannot take decades — too much would be lost — but passing this important legislation is a step in the right direction. Remember, too, that Chaco is not just a New Mexico treasure. Like Stonehenge in Eng...
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Jul/09/2017
Wild Potatoes Were on the Clovis Menu
Wild Potatoes Were Apparently Consumed by Clovis Era Peoples
A team of archaeologists and anthropologists, led by the University of Utah, has discovered potato starch residues in the crevices of a 10,900-year-old stone tool in Escalante, southern Utah — the earliest evidence of wild potato use i...
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Jun/25/2017
Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Objects Sacred to Native Peoples Introduc...
Bipartisan Legislation to Protect Objects Sacred to Native Peoples Introduced in Congress
Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) reintroduced the bipartisan Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act, a bill to prohibit the exporting of sacred Native American items and increase penalties...
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May/29/2017
Department of the Interior Receives Overwhelming Public Support for Bears E...
Department of the Interior Receives Overwhelming Public Support for Bears Ears
Supporters of Bears Ears National Monument sent a flood of comments to the Department of the Interior urging that the Utah monument be protected, with more than 685,000 messages of support submitted in just 15 days....“...
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Aug/28/2016
Continued Momentum for Bears Ears
NY Times Recognizes Presidential Legacy through Monument Creation
President Obama seems most comfortable outside on an 18-hole golf course, not hunting bear in Colorado, as Theodore Roosevelt did while president in 1905, or deep-sea fishing for tarpon in the Texas Gulf, as Franklin D. Roosevelt, an ...