2023
03
Oct
cyberSW and SKOPE Now Work Together
Dear Friends,
This note is divided into two parts: an important Part 1 and a self-indulgent Part 2.
Part 1. Last night, Archaeology Southwest initiated season 16 of its Archaeology Café series. My thanks to Director of Outreach, Sara Anderson, who took over hosting the Café, which allowed me...
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2023
28
Aug
Indigenous Sustainability and "Little Elders"
Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow
(August 29, 2023)—Yá’át’ééh shik’éí dóó shidine’é. Shí éí Caitlynn Mayhew yinishyé. Kin Łichii'nii nishłį́ dóó Bilagáana bashishchiin. Táchii’nii dashicheii dóó Bilagáana dashinalí. K’aabiizhii Nasdlah...
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2023
09
May
New Mexico Delegation Reintroduces Chaco Cultural Heritage Protection Act
Dear Friends,
My COVID has been dispatched! I’m back at work. Thanks to the many who sent kind words of support.
Friday is the day that the cyberSW team and the Tribal Working Group await with anticipation. Applications for the Native American Fellow are due. Although there is still a bit of...
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2022
01
Feb
Utah Diné Bikéyah Celebrates Ten Years
Dear Friends,
I find that even a tiny surprise can fuel an adrenalin boost. Please indulge my personal bird boost.
Last night, Dr. Katelyn Bishop presented a wonderful Archaeology Café (video coming soon) on the importance of birds in Chaco Canyon. A day earlier, Katelyn had logged in with us...
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2021
10
Aug
“Now is the time to celebrate America’s public lands…”
Dear Friends,
It would be interesting to ask today’s residents of cities in the US Southwest a simple question: “When was the last time you visited an archaeological site?” I predict many wrong answers. Many people would say “never,” and many more would try to recall when they last visi...
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2021
10
Aug
NSF Award Will Help Expand Massive Archaeological Database in Collaboration with Tribal Advisory Group
Researchers, Tribal cultural representatives, and community scientists to add data on ancient households to cyberSW platform
Tucson, Ariz. (August 11, 2021)—Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that a research team led by Preservation Archaeologist Jeffery J. Clark has received a genero...
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2021
06
Apr
Just What Is cyberSW? The Potential of Massive Databases for Future Preservation Archaeology Research
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 will bring you in on what we’re doing right now to learn more about the past and help protect special places.
Join...
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2021
02
Mar
Hope for Oak Flat
Dear Friends,
Recently, a friend from Phoenix commented that she was looking for a higher-elevation summer home. “I’m tired of breaking records for 115-degree temperatures like we did last summer.” [Fact check: In summer 2020, Phoenix had 145 days in triple digits, 53 days of 110 or more,...
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2020
18
Sep
Understanding Mimbres Painted Pottery
This guest post summarizes a new article by Michelle Hegmon, Will Russell, Kendall Baller, Matthew Peeples, and Sarah Striker, “The Social Significance of Mimbres Pottery,” which will appear soon in American Antiquity (DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/aaq.2020.63). This is one of the first publicat...
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2020
23
Jun
Grant Award from NEH Funds Tribal Petroglyphs Team
Following on recent field research, specialists from the Fort Yuma Quechan Indian Tribe will begin analysis and compilation project with Archaeology Southwest
Tucson, Ariz. (June 23, 2020)—Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that it has received a generous $114,219 grant award from the N...
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2020
09
Jun
CyberSW 1.0 Launches
Dear Friends,
These are uncomfortable times. Even deeply discouraging times.
But momentum toward change is palpable.
To minimize discouragement, this week we dropped several links to articles on the business-as-usual of the administration and various federal agencies. And, looking forwa...
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2020
09
Jun
Introducing cyberSW 1.0
Jeff Clark, Archaeology Southwest
Barbara Mills, University of Arizona
Matt Peeples, Arizona State University
Scott Ortman, University of Colorado Boulder
Sudha Ram, University of Arizona
(June 10, 2020)—After some COVID-related delays, including the stranding of a key programmer in Wuhan, ...
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