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Kate Sarther
Communications Director
Email | (520) 882-6946, ext. 16

 

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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2020
04
Apr

Postponed: How Did People Make and Use Atlatls?

UPDATE (3/16/2020): This class has been postponed until further notice. Learn more.  In this class, you will make a replica atlatl and an expedient dart. Hunters in the distant past used the atlatl to propel the dart and shaft. Patterned after archaeological examples known from the Southwest, ou...
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2020
04
Jan

How Did People Haft A Knife?

In this class, you will learn the process of hafting a stone knife blade into a wood handle. There are very few examples of hafted knives preserved in the Southwest. The style of hafting we will do in this class is based on Basketmaker and Pueblo knives that have been found in rock shelters across t...
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2019
19
Oct

How Did People Haft A Knife?

In this class, you will learn the process of hafting a stone knife blade into a wood handle. There are very few examples of hafted knives preserved in the Southwest. The style of hafting we will do in this class is based on Basketmaker and Pueblo knives that have been found in rock shelters across t...
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2017
02
Aug

Archaeology and Oral History Project Receives Prestigious NEH Grant

Four American Indian Tribes will collaborate with scholars on three-year study Tucson, Ariz. (August 2, 2017)—Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that a team of affiliated researchers has earned a prestigious Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH...
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2015
12
Oct

How Bad Poetry Can Lead to a Career in Archaeology

Between now and October 17, 2015, Archaeology Southwest is participating in the Archaeological Institute of America's celebration of International Archaeology Day (10/17/15) by sharing blog posts about why—or how—we became archaeologists. We hope you enjoy this very personal look at our staff me...
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2015
17
Sep

Four Words

By Kate Sarther Gann, Communications Coordinator (September 17, 2015)—Earlier this afternoon, Kathleen took a call from a mom in California who was helping her sixth grader with a homework assignment. They couldn't find the answers on our website, so they reached out to us by phone. Kathleen put...
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2015
24
Jul

People's Stuff

By Kate Sarther Gann, Communications Coordinator   (July 24, 2015)—Archaeologists examine people's stuff. As a former assistant museum curator, I can tell you that people's stuff—at least, once that stuff is "vintage"—is pretty nifty. One of my favorite artifacts in the collections of t...
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