2020
24
Mar
Educational and Public Archaeology Resources Online
Educational and Public Archaeology Resources Online
Last week, Lewis Borck (University of Missouri) organized a community-crowdsourced spreadsheet of archaeology/history-oriented educational and public content online as a resource for teachers and students looking for activities/readings/videos the...
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2016
25
Dec
Archaeology Southwest Acquires Another Important Place of the Past: Baicatcan
Archaeology Southwest Acquires Another Important Place of the Past: Baicatcan
In 2011, Daniel Baker donated a conservation easement to Archaeology Southwest over 8 acres of his 12-acre residence to protect a portion of the José Solas Ruin. In 2014, Daniel approached Archaeology Southwest about do...
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2015
10
Jul
Connecting the Past to the Present
Anna Porter, State University of New York at Buffalo
The first thing that comes to mind when you think about archaeology is not usually involvement in modern society. Archaeologists study things that happened thousands of years ago—how could this be relevant to today? What I learned at this field...
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2015
08
Jul
Career Directions
Victoria Bowler, University of New Mexico
Since graduating with an Anthropology degree three years ago, I have been putting off graduate school and roaming to and from National Park Service sites in the Southwest. My seasonal nomadic employment has supplied me with so many friends and networks and ...
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2015
12
May
What Is Public Archaeology?
By Paul F. Reed, Preservation Archaeologist
May 12, 2015—Scott Michlin welcomed me back to his morning radio program in March (listen here).
We discussed the realm of public archaeology. “Public,” in this case, refers to the funding stream and to the nature of the work completed.
The init...
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2013
15
Mar
An Archaeology Road Show
By Matt Peeples, Preservation Archaeologist
A few Saturdays ago, on March 2, 2013, Doug Gann and I traveled up to the Casa Malpais Archaeological Park and Museum in Springerville, Arizona, for a regional Archaeology Road Show. Supported by the Arizona Humanities Council, this event repres...
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