2022
30
Jun
Getting Down and Dirty: The Robinson Collection Project Team Visits the Gila River Farm Site
Jaye Smith, Robinson Collection Project Team Lead
(July 1, 2022)—When working on a legacy collection, it is hard to envision the context of the excavations conducted from just the notes and artifact assemblages. As the Robinson Collection Project Team conducts their preliminary research and reh...
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2021
28
Aug
Robinson Collection Project—We’re BAAAACK!
Jaye Smith, Robinson Collection Project Team Lead
Saturday, March 14, 2020, 10:46:25 a.m.: “Last night [Arizona State Museum] was informed that at the directive of the Provost Office and the office of Research, Innovation & Impact (RII) the Museum will be closed to the public effective th...
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2021
30
Jun
Fifteen Pipes
Val Freireich, Volunteer
(June 30, 2021)—Fifteen stone pipes in a plastic bag. Other than potsherds, fifteen of a single type of artifact in one place has been a rarity during my volunteer work on Archaeology Southwest’s Robinson Collection Project.
Fifteen steatite stone pipes. The quanti...
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2021
06
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at the 2021 (Virtual) SAA Meeting
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(April 6, 2021)—This time of year is generally filled with excitement as many of us at Archaeology Southwest prepare to present our current research at the annual meeting of the Society for Ameri...
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2020
29
Sep
A Resource for Zooarchaeology and Conservation Biology
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(September 29, 2020)—I’m happy to share news of a new publication some of you may be interested in. Wildlife biologist Stephen MacDonald and I just published Faunal Remains from Archaeology Sit...
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2019
25
Nov
When Two Worlds Collide
Jaye S. Smith, Robinson Collection Project Volunteer Co-Team Leader
(November 25, 2019)—Before my passion for archaeological research could take root, I spent 32 years traveling the world to serve the mineral specimen dealer and collector community. After my retirement, I devoted all of my avai...
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2019
10
May
Robinson Collection Project Update—A Successful Season of Citizen Science Collaboration, Participation, and Research
Jaye S. Smith and Sheri Thompson, Robinson Collection Project Volunteer Co-Team Leads
(May 10, 2019)—For more than 30 citizen-scientist volunteers, the “end of the season” for the Robinson Collection Project is both exhilarating and frustrating—the 2018–2019 session can’t be over yet!...
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2018
10
May
The Raymond F. Robinson Collection – A Successful Collaboration to Save Safford Basin Archaeological Artifacts
Linda J. Pierce, Deputy Director, Archaeology Southwest &
Jaye S. Smith, Robinson Collection Volunteer Co-Team Leader, Archaeology Southwest
(May 10, 2018)—A key element of Preservation Archaeology is a focus on working with existing collections and protecting sites still in the ground, ...
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2017
28
Feb
600 Boulders?
Doug Gann, Preservation Archaeologist and Digital Media Specialist
(February 28, 2017)—"Don't bite off more than you can chew," the old saying goes. In this case, to paraphrase another idiom, my eyes were definitely bigger than my computer's hard drive.
Painted Rocks Site by Doug Gann ...
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2017
16
Feb
Volunteerism
Jaye Smith, Archaeology Southwest member and volunteer
(February 16, 2016)—Volunteerism—I have thought about this word and its true meaning many times over the past 4 years, and when I originally decided to devote my remaining time on this magnificent planet to volunteer full time in the arch...
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2016
10
Oct
Painting Party
As International Archaeology Day (October 15, 2016) approaches, we're celebrating by sharing posts about what we're working on now—the daily work of archaeology. It could easily be argued that in this regard, Allen has the most fun of any of our staff on a daily basis!
Allen Denoyer, Preservati...
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2015
09
Jun
Cave Creek Midden Site: A Collaborative Site Protection Story, Part 2
By Linda Pierce, Deputy Director
On this blog, Andy Laurenzi recently described the collaborative process that led to Archaeology Southwest’s acceptance of a conservation easement on a 51-acre parcel in southeastern Arizona. The purpose of this easement is to protect, in perpetuity, the significa...
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