2022
01
Jun
Preservation Archaeology 2022 Public Lectures
Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona ask you to join the 2022 Preservation Archaeology Public Lecture series.
All lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. (MDT), located at 8179 Hwy 180 W, Cliff NM 88028. Look for the cream building with orange portable toilets on the north side of Hwy 180 just...
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2020
21
Jul
Google Won’t Save You Here
Kelsey Hanson, University of Arizona
(July 21, 2020)—I hate looking dumb. I always have and I always will. And I will readily admit that I try really hard to not look dumb. How do I do that? I have two answers.
One answer is the one everyone probably expects: I do my homework. I’ve been in...
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2019
10
Jun
Treasures in the Screen
This post is one in our annual series of essays by our Preservation Archaeology Field School students. We invite you to follow along with their experiences over the next six weeks through their own words.
Chris Fuchs, Washington College
(June 10, 2019)—I’ve always found archaeology particu...
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2017
05
Jul
Learning about Preservation in Archaeology
Taylor Picard, Humboldt State University
(July 5, 2017)—Recognizing that archaeological resources are nonrenewable, today’s archaeologists try to preserve as much of the resource as possible, as circumstances allow. Some nondestructive techniques include ground-penetrating radar, remote-sensing...
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2017
19
Jun
Watching the Landscape Change
Dylan Fick, New College of Florida
(June 19, 2017)—Scarcely before we had finished digging our initial trench it was time for me to head out with two other students and a staff member to survey possible new sites for preservation and perhaps later investigation. This let me see a lot more of the ...
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2016
13
Jul
The Durability of an Ancient Technology
Alyssa Kyper, Eastern New Mexico University
(Posted on July 13, 2016)—Today was an excellent day on survey with Evan, Karen, and Jon. We spent the cool, crisp morning showing Karen an array of check dams and terraces on a bench above the Gila River we had surveyed earlier in the season, double-...
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2016
12
Jul
A Room Revealed
Stacy L. Ryan, Teaching Assistant, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(July 12, 2016)—Field school provides an opportunity to spend weeks getting to the bottom of a feature, and interpretations of what we encounter along the way can shift during the process. We proceed with patience and the ...
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2016
03
Jul
Community Outreach in Archaeology
Peter Babala, Santa Rosa Junior College
(July 3, 2016)—A huge part of what initially attracted me to the field of archaeology was the sense of connection I get when I learn little more about the places I have lived and where the roots of my ancestries lie. It is a gift to have been given the op...
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2016
30
Jun
The Importance of Floors: A Case Study of Feature 300
Jonathan Alperstein, Vassar College
(June 29, 2016)—Whether you are working in a pit house or a pueblo room block, one of the most exciting parts of an excavation unit to work on is the floor fill. This year, while excavating the pueblo room we labeled Feature 300, we removed a grueling number ...
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2016
28
Jun
Understanding the Landscape They Lived in
Evan Giomi, Survey Director, University of Arizona
(June 27, 2016)—Archaeological survey is the activity of locating, identifying, and recording archaeological sites to build a record that can be later used by archaeologists looking to put shovels in the ground or monitor any damage to the sites ...
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2016
27
Jun
Adobe Walls
Conner Awayda, SUNY–Buffalo
(June 27, 2016)—Protecting from wind and rain, allowing cool temperatures in the summer, and heating in the winter, adobe makes up the walls of past homes. A mixture of sand and clay, adobe is made from earth and water. By mixing in water until the soil is the righ...
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2016
17
Jun
The Archaeology of Looting
Elissa McDavid, Hendrix College
(June 16, 2016)—Before arriving at field school, I had imagined well-preserved sites disturbed by nothing more than a few animal burrows, adobe walls and floors that behaved nicely, and no looting. (Blame National Geographic glamour and the fact that no one reall...
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