2024
12
Sep
Interview with Preservation Archaeology Field School Alumni
Dear Friends,
Several weeks ago, Preservation Archaeologists Karen Schollmeyer and Allen Denoyer returned to Tucson after an exhilarating AND exhausting six weeks in Silver City, New Mexico. There, they led the inaugural season of Archaeology Southwest’s new Preservation Archaeology Museum Cura...
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2024
08
Aug
Grijalva Introduces Legislation to Create Great Bend of the Gila National Monument
Dear Friends,
Archaeology Southwest practices preservation archaeology in all its manifestations—from minimally invasive and nondestructive scientific research to landscape and site preservation, from Tribal collaboration and co-management to advocacy for site and landscape protections. At any ...
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2024
13
Jun
Crow Canyon Welcomes Theresa Pasqual as EVP of Indigenous Affairs
Dear Friends,
Earlier this week we had a small staff meeting of folks who are responsible for our long-running and beloved Archaeology Café series. We met in the library of the Bates Mansion complex, our wonderfully charismatic headquarters here in Tucson, where it has been brutally hot already....
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2024
26
Mar
ASU Works with Tribal Reps to Fulfill NAGPRA Obligations
Dear Friends,
As I mentioned in a previous note, I always take window seats while flying so I can watch the landscape below as we cruise along. On Thursday, March 21, I had a window seat from Tucson to Denver. I almost wish I hadn’t; what I saw made me sick to my stomach.
As you can see from...
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2024
07
Feb
Tribal Co-Management: What Works Where and How?
Dear Friends,
As usual, Archaeologist Southwest staff are busy working on an astonishing range of preservation, outreach, research, and advocacy projects, many of which are garnering media attention.
On January 24, Skylar Begay, our Director of Tribal Collaboration in Outreach and Advocacy, pa...
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2024
31
Jan
Continuing Coverage: US Museums Respond to New NAGPRA Regulations
Dear Friends,
Museums are back in the news again.
This week, the American Museum of Natural History in New York announced the closure of two major exhibitions focused on Native American material culture from the Eastern Woodlands and Great Plains. Earlier this month, Chicago’s Field Museum, ...
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2024
16
Jan
A Message from Steve Nash
Dear Friends,
The moment is finally here—Monday, January 15, was my first day as President and CEO of Archaeology Southwest! So far, it has been every bit as exciting as I’d hoped. From the exceptionally capable and welcoming ASW staff to the unique office setting provided by the Bates Mansio...
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2023
17
Oct
American Museum of Natural History Changes Policy on Human Remains
Dear Friends,
The view from my kitchen window impacts my life in an outsized way.
It’s not a particularly large window, but it does give me invaluable perspective. In my specific case, the mere 25 feet to the terraced slope in which my wife and I invest lots of energy—horse manure and mulc...
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2023
31
Jan
Commentary: Museums Should Stop Exhibiting Human Bodies
Dear Friends,
I spend a good bit of time in the early morning taking in different media. There’s my current audiobook during my workout on the elliptical and before my coffee. I usually finish a chapter while nursing that cup of coffee. Then it’s time to consume some newspaper content—digit...
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2022
02
Nov
Experts Reimagine Bedrock Conservation Laws
Dear Friends,
Several times over the course of the pandemic, I’ve felt that the pace of in-person meetings has suddenly quickened—and slowed—and then accelerated again. And for sure, for me, the past few days have been a marathon!
Last Friday, I attended an in-person meeting of the Four ...
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2022
18
Oct
Interior Proposes to Revamp NAGPRA
Dear Friends,
Pursuing Preservation Archaeology often leads me to interesting new topics and places, such as regenerative agriculture.
That interest got a big boost over a month ago, courtesy of Dax Hansen, owner of Oatman Flats Ranch on the lower Gila River. He held a meeting in Phoenix to sh...
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2022
06
Sep
Capturing Day-to-Night in Bears Ears
Dear Friends,
A week from today, the bill to establish a Great Bend of the Gila National Conservation Area (H.R. 8719) will have a hearing before the House Natural Resources Committee in Washington, DC. It will be heard along with two other bills (H.R. 8108, Advancing Tribal Parity on Public Land...
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