2012
09
Dec
Road to Chaco to Remain Unpaved
Road to Chaco to Remain Unpaved
The Hopi refer to Chaco Canyon as "the place beyond the horizon." Because of increasing cost and staunch opposition to a road improvement plan, it will remain the place beyond chip sealing. San Juan County commissioners voted Tuesday to pull the plug on a plan years ...
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2012
08
Jan
The Center for Desert Archaeology is Now Archaeology Southwest
Editor's Note
The Center for Desert Archaeology is now Archaeology Southwest. We’ve changed our name, but not the important work we do. Southwest Archaeology Today continues to bring you the latest news in regional archaeology every Monday morning. Let us know what you think of our fresh look!
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2011
30
Oct
Archaeologists Rally Against "Apache Leap" Land Transfer
Archaeologists Rally Against "Apache Leap" Land Transfer
Archaeology groups are lining up against a proposal, currently being debated on the floor of the House of Representatives, to give a major copper mining company a large chunk of federal land in Arizona in exchange for private lands. The group...
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2011
21
Aug
New Youtube Channel Features a Variety of Presentations on Hohokam Archaeology
New Youtube Channel Features a Variety of Presentations on Hohokam Archaeology
Thanks to support from the Arizona Humanities Council, The Arizona Archaeology Society and the Museum of Northern Arizona were able to employ professional videographers to record a number of scholars' presentations on t...
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2011
31
Jul
Major Interpretive Improvements at Mesa Grande
Community Updates Plans for a Visitor's Center at Mesa Grande
As Mesa’s pioneers scouted their new home, one of their most striking discoveries was a mound larger than a football field that was the cultural center of the ancient Hohokam. Now Mesa is planning to boost the site’s profile by openi...
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2011
06
Feb
ATV Drivers vs. Ancient Places - The Sad Case of Recapture Draw
ATV Drivers vs. Ancient Places - The Sad Case of Recapture Draw
Whatever possessed these men to think that it was alright to build seven miles of illegal trail straight down Recapture Wash by cutting 300-year-old juniper trees and damaging Ancestral Puebloan sites? To the shame of other law-abidi...
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2010
19
Nov
Steve Lekson to be Honored by the Roy Chapman Andrews Society
Steve Lekson to be Honored by the Roy Chapman Andrews Society
Archaeologist Steve Lekson is changing the past, or at least our ideas about the past. His work at prehistoric ruins throughout the Southwest convinces him that ancient Native American societies were more complex, connected, and cosmo...
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