2025
18
Nov
Human Ancestors Created Tools Continuously for 300,000 Years
Goodness gracious, Friends, do I love the science of tree-ring dating!
My dissertation research, which I published in 1997 as Time, Trees, and Prehistory, explored the 15-year-long effort, from 1914 to 1929, in which Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an astronomer at the University of Arizona (UA) here i...
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2019
19
Nov
Acoma Pueblo Rejoices in Shield’s Return
Acoma Pueblo Rejoices in Shield’s Return
Video: Acoma Governor Vallo Comments on the Shield’s Return. Editors’ note: We strongly encourage our readers to watch this video of the press conference in its entirety to understand the cultural importance of the shield to the Pueblo of Acoma and th...
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2014
27
Oct
Exegesis of a Southwestern Archaeologist, Part 2
By Steve Nash, Anthropology Department Chair, Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Read Part 1 here.
Neanderthals and Tree-Rings
Sometime in mid-August 1988, I flew to Tucson on a direct flight from Chicago. I picked up my personal belongings—everything packed into a backpack and an old travel...
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