2019
02
Aug
Learning with Adobe
Allen Denoyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Ancient Technologies Expert
(August 2, 2019)—I wanted to follow up on Leslie’s post about how our 2014–2015 adobe structure helped us interpret walls at the Gila River Farm site in 2019.
There is something almost metaphysical about mixing mud...
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2018
11
Dec
Life in the Cliff Valley, 1300-1450
Our guest author for this post is undergraduate Chris LaRoche. Chris received his Associate’s Degree from Pima Community College’s archaeology program, and also attended the Preservation Archaeology Field School as a Pima student. He is now an anthropology major at the University of Arizona, whe...
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2016
22
Aug
Where Most Research Happens
Katherine Dungan, Preservation Archaeologist
(August 19, 2016)—Odds are good that when you think of archaeology, you’re thinking of an outdoor activity, whether that’s a bunch of dust-covered researchers poking around in square holes or just you, experiencing a place on the landscape with a...
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2016
28
Apr
The Students Are Coming!
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
(April 28, 2016)—Our 2016 Preservation Archaeology Field School is only a month away! For me, late April brings a list of quirky archaeological tasks, such as ordering thousands of very specific plastic bags for artifact curation and re...
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2015
23
Jul
2015 Field School Wrap-Up
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Field School Co-Director and Preservation Archaeologist
(July 23, 2015)—The end of the Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology Field School is always a bittersweet time, as students and staff members say goodbye to the teammates we’ve worked and lived with for six very inte...
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2015
16
Jul
Flakes, Points, and Little Obsidian Discs
Stacy Ryan, Lithics Lab Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
Now that excavations at the Dinwiddie site are complete, the students are focused on writing detailed summaries about what we’ve learned these past five weeks. Our days here have been incredibly full with fieldwork, ceramics ...
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2015
14
Jul
The Sirens
Dushyant Naresh, Vassar College
Eyelids slowly wilt as the soothing hum of the car engine lulls me to sleep. The rising sun casts a golden glow across the endless landscape, with subtle magentas, yellows, and blues fusing together the feathery clouds. Desert grasses and prickly pear cacti blanket t...
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2015
13
Jul
Learning the Landscape
Barry Price Steinbrecher, Survey Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
The 2015 survey component of the field school primarily focused on surveying land on the Pitchfork Ranch in the Burro Mountains south of Silver City. The ranch owners generously hosted us as we hiked our way through ...
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2015
25
Jun
Welcome to the Grand Ballroom
By Will Russell, Ceramics Lab Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
From what I gather, blog posts are supposed to be insightful, so I’ll apologize up front. This isn’t going to solve any of life’s riddles. Rather, it’s more an expression of interpretive frustration. You see, we s...
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2015
18
Jun
What We're Doing at the 2015 Field School
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
As you can tell if you're following Archaeology Southwest on Facebook, our 2015 field season is off and running! This year, as in the past, students are rotating through experiences in excavation, archaeological survey, field laboratory analysis, ...
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2015
01
Jun
Preparations
Leslie Aragon, Excavation Director and University of Arizona Doctoral Program
The beginning of the summer field school season is always an exciting time of year. Every year, the staff of the Upper Gila Preservation Archaeology (UGPA) field school (a partnership between Archaeology Southwest and ...
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2015
03
Feb
What I'm Doing This Week: Karen Schollmeyer
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
This week, I am finishing up faunal analysis (animal remains) from Jakob Sedig's excavations at Woodrow Ruin in the Upper Gila area. He had a field project there in 2012–2013 for his dissertation work.
It's interesting because it's just a fe...
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