2022
01
Nov
Revitalizing Cultural Lifestyle through Archeological Preservation
Join us on November 1, 2022, when Kevin Cooeyate (ALCC Zuni) and James Othole (ALCC Zuni) will discuss “Revitalizing Cultural Lifestyle through Archeological Preservation.” Reconnecting indigenous young adults to ancestral lifeways through the service work of the Ancestral Lands Conservation Cor...
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2022
04
Oct
Diné Archaeology on Chacra Mesa
Join us on October 4, 2022, when Ruth Van Dyke (Binghamton University) and Davina Two Bears (Swarthmore College) will discuss “Diné Archaeology on Chacra Mesa.” Davina Two Bears and Ruth Van Dyke discuss a collaborative project in which they re-visited and re-documented historic Diné (Navajo) ...
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2022
06
Sep
Capturing Day-to-Night in Bears Ears
Dear Friends,
A week from today, the bill to establish a Great Bend of the Gila National Conservation Area (H.R. 8719) will have a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee in Washington, DC. It will be heard along with two other bills (H.R. 8108, Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land...
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2022
11
Jan
Bureau of Land Management Moves to Protect Chaco, Opens Public Comment Period
Dear Friends,
Last Sunday morning I happened to glance out my kitchen window. On the power pole about 100 yards away was a very large white-breasted bird. It had to be a hawk. But it was really large.
Fearing it would fly away, I moved swiftly to grab my bird guide and binoculars. I got a ...
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2020
06
Oct
Safford, Ancient Arizona’s Forgotten Cosmopolitan Center
Now available: watch a video recording and explore extended content related to this presentation here.
From our house to yours…The 14th season of Archaeology Café celebrates and shares Archaeology Southwest’s current Preservation Archaeology projects with you. Our staff members wi...
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2020
22
Sep
Last Chance to Protect Greater Chaco?
Dear Friends,
This week, Greater Chaco continues to be our lead story. If the amended resource management plan developed by the Bureau of Land Management goes forward, future oil and gas extraction directly threatens archaeological sites and other places sacred to Tribes over an extensive area ...
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2020
08
Sep
George Frison Passes
Dear Friends,
Less than three months ago, my note to you linked to a blog post I published on June 17 that called on conscientious individuals and organizations to do more than simply post statements of support for Black Lives Matter. Compared to the magnitude of confronting America’s systemi...
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2020
20
Apr
Following Up on My April 14 Archaeology Café
On April 14, Paul Reed kicked off our first-ever Archaeology Café served entirely online. Watch and share his discussion of "Aztec, Salmon, and the Puebloan Heartland of the Middle San Juan" below. To participate in our next Archaeology Café on May 5, 2020, register ahead here.
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2020
25
Feb
Congressional Subcommittee Hearing Today: "Destroying Sacred Sites and Erasing Tribal Culture"
Continuing Coverage: Congressional Subcommittee Hearing Today on Desecration at Border
Association on American Indian Affairs Executive Director and Attorney Shannon Keller O’Loughlin will testify to Congress Wednesday that recent U.S. government destruction of Native American sacred sites for th...
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2019
17
Sep
Border Construction Imperils Archaeological Sites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Border Construction Imperils Archaeological Sites in Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument
Environmental groups have fought unsuccessfully to halt construction in protected areas, arguing that more-imposing barriers could disrupt wildlife migration and threaten the survival of imperiled species. But ...
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2019
13
Sep
Archaeology Southwest’s Archaeology Café Program Receives Grant Award from Arizona Humanities
For information on our current Archaeology Café season, go here.
Archaeology Southwest’s Archaeology Café Program Receives Grant Award from Arizona Humanities
Funding will help encourage meaningful visits to some of the Southwest’s most special cultural sites and landscapes.
Tucson,...
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2019
04
Sep
Understanding When and How the Americas Were Populated
Understanding When and How the Americas Were Populated
Most archaeologists would now agree that there were widely scattered, small but culturally diverse groups of people living in the Americas at least one or two millennia before the emergence of Clovis spear points. That estimate, then, placing p...
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