2020
20
Oct
Bears Ears Monument Advisory Committee Meets as Judge Deliberates
Dear Friends,
For two reasons, I am in a good—very good—mood.
First, I am so grateful that I live in a county that knows how to do mail-in voting right. I am on my county’s permanent mail-in voter list, so my ballot automatically appeared in my home mailbox on October 8. I took the w...
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2020
25
Aug
Radiocarbon Dating’s New Calibration Curve
Dear Friends,
Hopefully you have been feeling in need of a map. Because today I am going to indulge my love of maps and share some of the fun several of us at Archaeology Southwest have been having recently.
I have been undertaking some fairly standard archaeological mapping of ancient agricul...
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2019
08
Oct
Coming Home: Mesa Verde Repatriation
Coming Home: Mesa Verde Repatriation
The remains of 20 Native people and 28 funerary objects will be returned to the tribes with relations to Mesa Verde, the White House announced on Wednesday. The announcement comes after a repatriation agreement was reached between the United States and Finland. ...
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2019
16
Jul
Ceremonial Shield Will Return to Acoma Pueblo
Ceremonial Shield Will Return to Acoma Pueblo
A sacred ceremonial shield will be returned to the Pueblo of Acoma following a settlement agreement filed Friday afternoon in U.S. District Court. The settlement orders the EVE Auction House in Paris, France, to release the shield into U.S. custody at t...
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2017
11
Jun
Archaeology Is Often the Last Line of Defense for the Places of the Past
Archaeology Is Often the Last Line of Defense for the Places of the Past
Sometimes I get the feeling that, as a field archaeologist, I am an undertaker for wild places, for I might be one of the last people to see a place before it is chained, leveled, mined, trenched or burned. The thought of what ...
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2015
17
May
Cronkite News Examines Repatriation in Arizona
Is Arizona Lagging in the Implementation of NAGPRA?
Manley Begay Jr. stood surrounded by boxes "stacked to the ceiling" that were filled with the remains of more than 1,000 Native Americans, when one label caught his eye. Canyon Del Muerte. It was where Begay's family took their livestock to winte...
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2015
22
Feb
When is a Village? Defining the Beginnings of Village Life is the Topic of Archaeology Southwest's Next Archaeology Cafe - Tucson
When is a Village? Defining the Beginnings of Village Life is the Topic of Archaeology Southwest's Next Archaeology Cafe - Tucson
On March 3, 2015, Dr. Lisa C. Young (University of Michigan) and Dr. Sarah A. Herr (Desert Archaeology, Inc.) will describe what makes a settlement a village. We meet on ...
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2014
01
Jun
Bruce Babbit Advocates for a Major Push in Public Lands Protection
Bruce Babbit Advocates for a Major Push in Public Lands Protection
When a racist rancher in Nevada and his armed supporters can command headlines by claiming to own and control publicly owned lands, perhaps it's time to remind Westerners about the history of the nation's public-land heritage. Recal...
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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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2013
22
Dec
Peabody Coal, the Black Mesa Archaeological Project, and Repatriation Problems
Peabody Coal, the Black Mesa Archaeological Project, and Repatriation Problems
In 1967 Peabody Energy needed to clear land it was leasing on the Navajo reservation to strip mine coal, but ancient Indian dwellings and graves were in the way. So, as required by law, it hired a team of archeologists ...
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2012
30
Dec
Arizona Republic Claims Repatriation of the Magician's Burial was Controversial
Arizona Republic Claims Repatriation of the Magician's Burial Was Controversial
On an unknown date at an unidentified location, the U.S. government turned over a collection of undisclosed Sinagua artifacts to anonymous members of the Hopi Tribe for unspecified disposition. The mysterious proceeding...
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