2022
09
Jun
Preservation Archaeology 2022 Public Lectures
Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona ask you to join the 2022 Preservation Archaeology Public Lecture series.
All lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. (MDT), located at 8179 Hwy 180 W, Cliff NM 88028. Look for the cream building with orange portable toilets on the north side of Hwy 180 just...
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2022
09
Jun
A (Long, Hot, Summer) Day in the Life
Charles Hemphill, Eastern Arizona College and University of Arizona
(June 9, 2022)—We wake before the sun to the sounds of birds in nearby trees. After a week and a half, the mockingbirds have adopted the beeping of our alarm clocks as their morning song, and an always-heard but never-seen turk...
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2022
06
Jun
Melodies, Harmonies, and Community
Elie Stenson, Case Western Reserve University
(June 7, 2022)—Each morning as we drive from our camp to the site, the early sun’s trace against the mountains of the Gila National Forest brings Paul Simon’s “Hearts and Bones” to my mind.
Prior to this year, I had never been to New Mexi...
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2022
06
Jun
50 Acres in Two Days
Ian Youth, Washington University in St. Louis
(June 6, 2022)—Each day at the Preservation Archaeology Field School, Ben Pelletier has been teaching three of us the basics of surveying an unfamiliar landscape. Because surveying allows us to identify previously unknown sites, it is an essential c...
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2022
01
Jun
Unit 463
Stephan Wallace, University of Texas at El Paso
(June 3, 2022)—I am currently working on Unit 463 on the Gila River Farm. It started out last year as a trench to find the extent of a wall. The trench ended when another wall was found connected to the first wall at a 90-degree angle. Our crew le...
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2022
01
Jun
Preservation Archaeology 2022 Public Lectures
Archaeology Southwest and the University of Arizona ask you to join the 2022 Preservation Archaeology Public Lecture series.
All lectures begin at 6:30 p.m. (MDT), located at 8179 Hwy 180 W, Cliff NM 88028. Look for the cream building with orange portable toilets on the north side of Hwy 180 just...
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2022
31
May
The Lands Between
Dear Friends,
Sometimes a blow is external—other times, internal.
I got one of each over the holiday weekend.
Apropos of our yearlong focus on “Avian Archaeology,” a Cooper’s Hawk that inhabits the Eucalyptus tree next to my house hit me on the back of the head at full speed, ...
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2022
31
May
The First Three Days
Avy Henrikson, University of Evansville
(June 1, 2022)—Welcome to another exciting season of Archaeology Southwest’s Preservation Archaeology Field School. So far, we have been flooded with new information about the area around Tucson and about the archaeological context for the site we are w...
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2022
31
May
They're Baaaack, 2022 Edition
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(May 31, 2022)—It’s the end of May, and our Preservation Archaeology Field School has just begun our 2022 field season. I’ve been having a great week spending time with our group, and I’m l...
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2022
24
May
13,000-Year-Old Ocher Mine in Wyoming
Dear Friends,
I may soon be overwhelmed by positivity.
It started at the Summit hosted by the Conservation Lands Foundation last week. That was one of the best professional gatherings I have ever attended.
And today, I get to meet our 2022 field school students.
We spend two days...
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2022
12
Apr
Archaeology Southwest at the SAAs—Recap
Karen Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School
(April 12, 2022)—In early April, a handful of us from Archaeology Southwest attended the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) annual meeting in Chicago—in person! After a few years of cancell...
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2021
16
Jul
An Old Cultural Anthropologist Goes to Archaeological Field School
Jason Roberts, University of Texas at San Antonio
(July 16, 2021)—Like so many during the COVID-19 pandemic, I had to make many social and economic adjustments I was unprepared for.
In the spring of 2020, I was finishing up my first year teaching cultural anthropology at a small liberal arts...
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