2012
19
Jun
Student Post: Reading the Dirt
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Kelly Sweeney and her crew are learning to "read the dirt":
It is always exciting to start a new unit and uncover what lies beneath the soil. When I first arrived at the Fornholt site, I felt this exact sentiment. My crew’s goal was...
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2012
14
Jun
Student Post: The Importance of Field Training
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Field training is proving invaluable to student Madeline Weinberger:
If you have any doubts about the importance of field training in archaeology, let me end them. Attending a field school is incredibly important.
After talking to ot...
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2012
11
Jun
Student Post: Expectations
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Our student Mac Mattingly discovers the reality of archaeological fieldwork:
So much has happened over the past week, it's hard to know where to begin.
When I first heard about this field school, I had no idea what to expect. Maybe w...
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2012
06
Jun
Student Post: Blissfully Disconnected
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Field school student Megan Smith settles in to the rhythm of camp life:
I often feel that I have lost sight of what is really important in my life as I scramble to meet deadlines and constantly focus my views so nar...
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2012
04
Jun
Student Post: First Days at Mule Creek
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Our first student blog post comes from Tom Sprynczynatyk:
As we drove up to the field school camp, I couldn’t help but feel some trepidation. Leaving Safford, about 50 miles southwest from Mule Creek, I could see smoke from the Whit...
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2012
01
Jun
2012 Field Season Begins
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
This Tuesday, we arrived in Mule Creek with the new students, officially beginning the 2012 Mule Creek Preservation Archaeology field school. For those of you who haven’t visited the blog before, we began this journal during the 2011 field s...
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2012
22
May
Counting Down the Days
...to the 2012 Preservation Archaeology Field School!
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
It’s nearly here, and our staff is busy making final preparations for the 2012 Archaeology Southwest/University of Arizona Preservation Archaeology Field School at Mule Creek, New M...
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2012
30
Apr
Mule Creek in Memphis
By Katherine A. Dungan, Research Assistant
The Society for American Archaeology held its 77th Annual Meeting last week, and several of Archaeology Southwest’s staff, research associates, and friends traveled to Memphis to talk about archaeology, see old friends, and enjoy some barbequ...
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2012
06
Apr
Salado polychrome pottery, part 2
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
A major part of our research at Mule Creek—and in the Upper Gila region in general—is to identify compositional and stylistic variability in Salado polychrome pottery (also known as Roosevelt Red Ware) through time and across space. ...
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2012
23
Mar
Salado polychrome pottery, part 1
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
A major part of our research at Mule Creek—and in the Upper Gila region in general—is to identify compositional and stylistic variability in Salado polychrome pottery (also known as Roosevelt Red Ware) through time and across space. ...
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2012
05
Mar
Catching Up, continued
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
Here are a few more updates from our field school students and staff.
From Meaghan Trowbridge (2010 Volunteer and 2011 Field Supervisor): "Since last August, I have worked for Statistical Research, Inc,. doing cultural resource ...
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2011
18
Nov
Learning from Pottery, Part 1: Dating
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
When an archaeologist says that a site was inhabited, say, during the late 1200s A.D., how does he or she know that? There are many methods used to date archaeological sites. Some, like radiocarbon dating of materials like burned wood or ...
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