2015
08
Oct
Indiana O’Brien and the Raiders of the Maze
Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
(October 8, 2015)—Over the last couple of days I’ve been attempting to fulfill a long-standing personal goal. This means that I’ve been frantically, frenetically, and furiously working on the last two parts of my dissertation with not much else on ...
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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
24
Jul
People's Stuff
By Kate Sarther Gann, Communications Coordinator
(July 24, 2015)—Archaeologists examine people's stuff. As a former assistant museum curator, I can tell you that people's stuff—at least, once that stuff is "vintage"—is pretty nifty. One of my favorite artifacts in the collections of t...
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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
03
Feb
What I'm Doing This Week: Lewis Borck
By Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
This week, I'm doing data entry and synthesis for the Edge of Salado project, guest-editing the forthcoming Archaeology Southwest Magazine issue on the Gallina Branch, writing a research grant, writing a book review, and participating on the Universit...
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2014
01
Nov
Creepytings versus Rock Art and Banksy, Part 2
By Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
Read this first part of this post here.
View examples of Creepytings’s graffiti at www.modernhiker.com.
The second argument that bloggers and commentators have rolled out to defend Creepytings’s actions is that we shouldn’t view her w...
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2014
01
Nov
Creepytings versus Rock Art and Banksy
By Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
One of the things I like best about studying human behavior is exactly how confusing human behavior can be. What we do as archaeologists, anthropologists, sociologists, human geographers, and/or historians is much less like the frequently used...
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2014
13
Jun
Rusty American Dream
By Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
Ahhhhhhh, the scent of green chiles, sage, piñon, dust, ponderosa…and a vehicle full of sweaty, tired folk who have lost all sense of societal norms. It must be field school season again.
This year, my job is to lead the survey portion of ...
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2014
27
Apr
Cultural Conservatism in the Ancient Southwest - Research on the Edge of Salado
Introduction to Archaeology Southwest's Edge of Salado Research
What slows or halts the geographic spread of an ideology—especially an ideology that brings people together? In our previous work, we focused on detecting Kayenta immigrants and determining their impacts in communities across the sout...
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2014
10
Apr
A View from the Edge…of Salado
By Kathryn Turney, Project Intern
I have had the pleasure of being an intern for the Edge of Salado project since February of this year. It has been fun, challenging at times, and very rewarding. It has been a good learning experience, in terms of how to meet the project’s research goals while st...
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2014
19
Mar
Exploring the Edge, March 8–9, 15–16
By Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow
We have been working in the Coyote Mountains for three weeks now as part of our Edge of Salado investigation.
I can say, without any doubt, that it has been one of my favorite settings to work in. Each site is nestled within a box canyon er...
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2014
09
Mar
Southwestern Archaeology Provides Insights on Disaster Recovery
Southwestern Archaeology Provides Insights on Disaster Recovery
Following a natural disaster, vulnerability to food shortage appears to depend more on a group's ability to migrate and its positive relationships with other groups than on resource factors. That's according to a research team led by A...
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