2015
17
Sep
Four Words
By Kate Sarther Gann, Communications Coordinator
(September 17, 2015)—Earlier this afternoon, Kathleen took a call from a mom in California who was helping her sixth grader with a homework assignment. They couldn't find the answers on our website, so they reached out to us by phone.
Kathleen put...
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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
28
Apr
How Far Did They Carry Those Deer? And Where Did All Those Turkeys Come from?
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
April 28, 2015—I recently received the good news that a new project we’re starting here at Archaeology Southwest has been funded by the National Science Foundation (BCS-1460385). I’ll be working with Jeffrey Ferguson, an archaeological chemi...
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2015
15
Apr
What Most of Us Are Doing This Week: Ridiculously Long Titles Edition
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
Many of us here at Archaeology Southwest will be spending part of this week in San Francisco, California, at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. Every year, thousands of archaeologists flock to a different North American city to o...
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2015
04
Mar
Shoot, Grind, Chop, and Burn!
By Karen Schollmeyer and Allen Denoyer
One of the most exciting components of Archaeology Southwest’s growing Hands-On Archaeology program is the inclusion of public activities specifically geared toward residents of southwest New Mexico’s Upper Gila area. This area is the focus of our Preserv...
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2015
24
Feb
Learning from Broken Bunny Bones
Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
A few years ago, when I was a graduate student, a bright young undergraduate came into the lab to ask about volunteering to help with animal bone analysis, or zooarchaeology. I will never forget the look of horror on his face when I poured a bag o...
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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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2014
26
Sep
Rooms of Our Own
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist
As one of the newest Archaeology Southwest staff members, I still marvel at how peaceful, inviting, and singular our workplace is. I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Archaeology Southwest library lately, researching older excavations in ...
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