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Aug/02/2015
Salt Lake Tribune Op-Ed Questions Lack of Respect for Native Heritage in So...
Salt Lake Tribune Op-Ed Questions Lack of Respect for Native Heritage in Southern Utah
Utah is known for its exquisite rock art, cliff dwellings and dry desert caves. The state has some of the most spectacular, well-preserved and information-rich archaeological sites in North America, and perhaps ...
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May/17/2015
Cronkite News Examines Repatriation in Arizona
Is Arizona Lagging in the Implementation of NAGPRA?
Manley Begay Jr. stood surrounded by boxes "stacked to the ceiling" that were filled with the remains of more than 1,000 Native Americans, when one label caught his eye. Canyon Del Muerte. It was where Begay's family took their livestock to winte...
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Oct/19/2014
Reflections on the Life and Career of Archaeologist George Frison
Reflections on the Life and Career of George Frison
The story, Frison said, is exactly what the title suggests. He recounts a mid-life transition from rancher to university student to professor of anthropology. Drawing on experience working with and hunting large animals, Frison focused his resear...
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Jun/15/2014
Boom Times for Archaeologists in North Dakota – Is the Four Corners R...
Boom Times for Archaeologists in North Dakota - Is the Four Corners Region Next?
Drilling crews are eager to plunge their equipment into the ground. Road builders are ready to start highway projects, and construction workers need to dig. But across the hyperactive oil fields of North Dakota, these ...
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Dec/01/2013
Outrage Expressed over Second Paris Auction of Objects Sacred to Hopi Peopl...
Outrage Expressed over Second Paris Auction of Objects Sacred to Hopi Peoples
Activists vowed Thursday to block the proposed sale of sacred objects originating from Arizona’s Hopi tribe at a Paris auction, just months after a similar controversy stoked outrage. Tribal people’s advocacy group S...
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Mar/24/2013
Representative Grijalva Sponsors Legislation to Create the Great Bend of th...
Representative Grijalva Sponsors Legislation to Create the Great Bend of the Gila National Monument and the Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area
Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva today introduced six bills focused on the management, conservation, and long-term stewardship of federal land in Arizona and thr...
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Jan/27/2013
Chocolate in the Southwest by AD 800?
Chocolate in the Southwest by AD 800?
They were humble farmers who grew corn and dwelt in subterranean pit houses. But the people who lived 1200 years ago in a Utah village known as Site 13, near Canyonlands National Park in Utah, seem to have had at least one indulgence: chocolate. Researchers repo...
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Jul/01/2012
Significant Red Mountain Phase Discoveries in Phoenix Highlight Familiar Te...
Significant Red Mountain Phase Discoveries in Phoenix Highlight Familiar Tensions between Science, Government, and Development
Archeologists said they've found ancient artifacts that could date back to before the Hohokams in dirt removed from the downtown Phoenix construction site of the Maricopa ...
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Feb/19/2012
What Are New Mexico’s Most Endangered Historic Places?
What Are New Mexico's Most Endangered Historic Places?
The 2012 call for nominations to the New Mexico Historic Preservation Alliance most endangered cultural heritage is now out and available online: www.nmheritage.org. The deadline for submitting nominations has now been extended to March 31, 2...
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Nov/20/2011
New Utah Natural History Museum Opens to Appreciative Audience
New Utah Natural History Museum Opens to Appreciative Audience
"This is spectacular," said Valerie Henderson, who visited the museum Friday with her husband and two-month-old daughter, leaving her toddler with a friend so she could fully take it all in. She said she’s eager to return with her todd...
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Jul/31/2011
Major Interpretive Improvements at Mesa Grande
Community Updates Plans for a Visitor's Center at Mesa Grande
As Mesa’s pioneers scouted their new home, one of their most striking discoveries was a mound larger than a football field that was the cultural center of the ancient Hohokam. Now Mesa is planning to boost the site’s profile by openi...
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Sep/07/2010
Southwest Archaeology Today for Sept 7, 2010
Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology
The Archaeological Institute that Helped Define Santa Fe
Adolph Bandelier was broke. Although he had received a $1,200 grant to explore the indigenous peoples and wondrous ruins of New Mexico, that money went ...