2014
07
Jan
Tanque Verde Brown and the Temper of Sand
By Lewis Borck, Preservation Fellow
In the not-so-distant past, I organized a meeting of the minds to discuss problems and interesting phenomena associated with precontact southern Arizona pottery (“precontact” meaning “before the arrival of Europeans”). As I prepared for “Edge ...
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2013
12
Dec
A Dream Comes True
Deb Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
When I was a kid growing up in the Denver area, I loved going to the Denver Museum of Nature and Science (DMNS). There, I could see fantastic nature dioramas, rooms full of dinosaur skeletons, and Egyptian mummies. Now that I’m back in Colorado, my...
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2012
05
Nov
Report from the 2012 National Preservation Conference
By Bill Doelle, Archaeology Southwest President & CEO
The National Trust for Historic Preservation holds an annual conference in a different U.S. city each year. Last week, from October 31 through November 2, we converged on Spokane, Washington, a city of 209,000 that has a robust historic do...
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2011
18
Nov
Learning from Pottery, Part 1: Dating
By Deborah L. Huntley, Preservation Archaeologist
When an archaeologist says that a site was inhabited, say, during the late 1200s A.D., how does he or she know that? There are many methods used to date archaeological sites. Some, like radiocarbon dating of materials like burned wood or ...
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