2022
29
Mar
Chaco Protection Zone Comment Period Extended
Dear Friends,
Last week Archaeology Southwest staff had a glorious 10-hour field trip along the San Pedro River. It was pretty much a perfect day.
Before I head to the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting in Chicago this week, I want to share with you another field day from ...
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2019
26
Mar
Tribes Come Together to Protect Greater Chaco
Tribes Come Together to Protect Greater Chaco
Native American leaders are banding together to pressure U.S. officials to ban oil and gas exploration around a sacred tribal site that features massive stone structures and other remnants of an ancient civilization but are facing the Trump administrati...
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2018
04
Sep
A Zuni Ahayuda Goes Home
A Zuni Ahayuda Goes Home
For four decades, the Zuni tribe has scoured the world looking to reclaim its war god idols [sic]. While most are found in southwest museums, one was found at Albion College. The war god—also known as an Ahayuda—is being returned to the Zuni, a southwestern U.S. Native ...
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2015
19
Jun
The Spark
Monica Veale, University of Texas at Arlington
As a child, my first experience with archaeology was a long road trip to Portland, Oregon, for a family reunion. The trip involved stops in Mesa Verde National Park, Bandelier National Monument, and Gila Cliff Dwellings. I was only eight years old at t...
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2013
21
Aug
Movement Is Life
By Andy Laurenzi, Southwest Field Representative
“Movement is life. Movement is seen everywhere… Movement was characteristic of our ancestors, who moved across the landscape like the clouds across the sky.” —Tessy Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo, quoted on the Bandelier National Monumen...
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2012
09
Sep
The City of Mesa Breaks Ground on Mesa Grande Visitors Center
The City of Mesa Breaks Ground on Mesa Grande Visitors Center
At the age of 93, Sam Lewis still gets emotional about his grandparents’ former property in west Mesa — the one he and his family knew as home in the 1920s, long after the ancient Hohokam lived there. When he was a boy, Lewis, the gr...
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