2024
01
Dec
Preserving the Ray Robinson Collection: Avocational Efforts in Preservation and Research
Jaye Smith, Joyce Clarke, Mary Graham, Phillip Hunger, Harlow Sires, and Valerie Freireich-Kaplan, Robinson Project Researchers
Jeffery J. Clark, Vice President for Research, Archaeology Southwest
Paper presented at the 2024 Pecos Conference, August 2, 2024.
Abstract
In 2015, the Arizona St...
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2022
30
Jun
Getting Down and Dirty: The Robinson Collection Project Team Visits the Gila River Farm Site
Jaye Smith, Robinson Collection Project Team Lead
(July 1, 2022)—When working on a legacy collection, it is hard to envision the context of the excavations conducted from just the notes and artifact assemblages. As the Robinson Collection Project Team conducts their preliminary research and reh...
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2021
28
Aug
Robinson Collection Project—We’re BAAAACK!
Jaye Smith, Robinson Collection Project Team Lead
Saturday, March 14, 2020, 10:46:25 a.m.: “Last night [Arizona State Museum] was informed that at the directive of the Provost Office and the office of Research, Innovation & Impact (RII) the Museum will be closed to the public effective th...
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2021
30
Jun
Fifteen Pipes
Val Freireich, Volunteer
(June 30, 2021)—Fifteen stone pipes in a plastic bag. Other than potsherds, fifteen of a single type of artifact in one place has been a rarity during my volunteer work on Archaeology Southwest’s Robinson Collection Project.
Fifteen steatite stone pipes. The quanti...
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2019
10
May
Robinson Collection Project Update—A Successful Season of Citizen Science Collaboration, Participation, and Research
Jaye S. Smith and Sheri Thompson, Robinson Collection Project Volunteer Co-Team Leads
(May 10, 2019)—For more than 30 citizen-scientist volunteers, the “end of the season” for the Robinson Collection Project is both exhilarating and frustrating—the 2018–2019 session can’t be over yet!...
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2018
10
May
The Raymond F. Robinson Collection – A Successful Collaboration to Save Safford Basin Archaeological Artifacts
Linda J. Pierce, Deputy Director, Archaeology Southwest &
Jaye S. Smith, Robinson Collection Volunteer Co-Team Leader, Archaeology Southwest
(May 10, 2018)—A key element of Preservation Archaeology is a focus on working with existing collections and protecting sites still in the ground, ...
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