Sonoran Desert

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Kate Sarther
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2025
30
Sep

Four Nations Symposium on Sonoran Rock Imagery Concludes

Proceedings will be shared in a forthcoming volume Tucson, Ariz. (September 30, 2025)—Last week, Preservation Anthropologist Aaron Wright, of Tucson-based nonprofit Archaeology Southwest, convened a three-day seminar at Amerind, a museum, art gallery, and research center in Dragoon, Arizona. Enti...
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2025
14
Jan

Wright Receives Grant Award from Wenner-Gren Foundation

The Wenner-Gren Workshop Grant will bring Indigenous, Mexican, and US experts together to create an atlas of the Sonoran Desert’s rock imagery Tucson, Ariz. (January 14, 2025)—Tucson-based nonprofit Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that Preservation Anthropologist Aaron Wright has r...
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2020
08
Jun

At Home

Leslie Aragon, Preservation Archaeology Fellow and Field Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School (June 8, 2020)—I’m really missing the field school and some of what have become yearly traditions since I became field director in 2013. I miss going to the airport and trying to guess whi...
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2019
08
Jan

Sonoran Desert Food and Lifeways, Past and Present

Knowledge-seekers of every kind are welcome at Archaeology Café at Changing Hands for a season of programs exploring the deep and diverse history of Phoenix and the greater Southwest in a jargon-free zone. Dr. Melissa Kruse-Peeples and Bernard Siquieros will explore “Sonoran Desert Food and Lifew...
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2015
16
Oct

How a Sense of Place Made Sense of the Past

Between now and October 17, 2015, Archaeology Southwest is participating in the Archaeological Institute of America's celebration of International Archaeology Day (10/17/15) by sharing blog posts about why—or how—we became archaeologists. Today we feature Kathleen Bader, who designs the beautifu...
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