2011
14
Jun
Barbacoa
On our first day off of the season, most of the students headed in to Silver City to do laundry and pick up necessities that had been used up or forgotten. A few stayed behind to help our hosts with the yearly task of branding and castrating their cattle, and did a fine job as ranch hands. To ...
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2011
10
Jun
New Videos - Center Archaeologists on Work in Mule Creek, New Mexico
Deborah Huntley, Rob Jones, and Katherine Dungan share their research questions and their perspectives on working in the Upper Gila River region of west-central New Mexico in these new Center-produced video segments.
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2011
09
Jun
Fire Update
It's not that often that this part of New Mexico makes the news. Unfortunately, the extra wet summer last year and the extra dry one this year have led to one of the largest fires in Southwestern history, burning up more than forty miles away and across two rivers, but we are making plans should w...
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2011
08
Jun
Camp Life
We get out on the site only a little after sunrise and make it back in the late afternoon, which is often taken up with artifact washing, lecture, and the business of trying to get the New Mexico silt scrubbed off. The field house is for cooking, reading, and getting out of the rain (if we had any...
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2011
05
Jun
Underground
The first few days are always a little tough, as folks grow calluses where there were none, and stretch muscles that haven't been called on before. Sometimes, even bloggers get too worn out to get much blogging done (sorry). But now we've hit our stride. We have five active excavation units: three i...
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2011
05
Jun
"Save America's Treasures" Program to Close at the End of This Month
"Save America's Treasures" to Close at the End of This Month
For the past twelve years, Save America’s Treasures has been one of the country’s most important and effective historic preservation efforts, bringing hundreds of millions of dollars for restoration to nationally significant historic s...
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2011
05
Jun
Off to a Good Start
The last few days have been incredibly busy, but the field school is now underway! The students arrived late Sunday afternoon to a meal of turkey mole prepared by our wonderful hosts. They gave a brief introduction to their ranch and life here in Mule Creek, and Bill Doelle talked to the students ...
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2011
31
May
Lunch for Twenty
The nearest grocery stores are either an hour east in Silver City, New Mexico, or an hour west in Safford, Arizona, so we have to stock up. We've got limited refrigeration and storage in the field house, so we generally keep about a week of food at a time. This can be shocking for the check-ou...
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2011
30
May
Field Prep
After a month of gathering gear, compiling reading lists, and writing plans of work, we departed Tucson to set up camp in Mule Creek ahead of the students. One of the challenges of working more than an hour away from the nearest store is being absolutely sure that nothing (or at least nothing esse...
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2011
26
May
NEW CENTER BLOG - PRESENTING MULE CREEK UNDERGROUND
Follow along with Center Preservation Fellow Robert Jones and the staff and students of the Center for Desert Archaeology and University of Arizona School of Anthropology's Preservation Archaeology Field School as they conduct a fourth season of fieldwork in the Mule Creek region of western New Mexi...
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2011
26
May
Welcome to Mule Creek Underground
Welcome to the inaugural edition of Mule Creek Underground! We've started this blog to give you a feel for the process of planning, conducting, and living through an archaeological research project.
First, a little history is in order. This will be our fourth year working in Mule Creek, and our l...
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2011
16
May
Center Volunteer Freeman Honored
The Center is pleased to announce that long-time volunteer Cherie Freeman will receive the 2011 Governor’s Archaeology Advisory Commission’s Award in Public Archaeology, in the Avocational Archaeologist category. Cherie’s contributions to the preservation and protection of Arizona’s herita...
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