2025
11
Dec
Routes and Roots
Today’s post is the fourth in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We'll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support!
Steve Nash, President & CEO
(December 12, 2025)—In 1946, Bobby Troupe wrote the memorable song “(Get Your Kick...
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2025
08
Dec
IMLS Grants Restored
Hi Friends,
Shameless plug for the cause follows.
Need holiday gifts for the other Preservation Archaeology nerds enthusiasts in your life? We have you covered! For the first time ever, we’re offering t-shirts as part of a limited-time campaign. They feature (with permission) our friend and ...
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2025
04
Dec
Finding My Way across Many Trails
Today’s post is the third in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We'll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support!
Amy Gillaspie, BIA NAGPRA Assistance Program Coordinator
Audio version of "Finding My Way across Many Trails." Re...
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2025
02
Dec
International Visitors Will Face Much Higher NPS Entry Fees
Hi Everyone, Kate here.
Please indulge me for a few words about Archaeology Southwest’s year-end campaign on this Giving Tuesday. Your gifts wholly fund this weekly newsletter and so many other aspects of our work not funded by grants and contracts.
We’re thinking a lot these days about tr...
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2025
25
Nov
Ndee Trails
Today’s post is the second in our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We'll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support!
John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration
Audio Version of "Ndee Trails." Read by John Wel...
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2025
25
Nov
Continuing Coverage: Protecting the Chaco Protection Zone
Dear Friends,
A short edition today.
First, some sad news. We have learned that legendary ethnobotanist and archaeologist Suzanne K. “Suzy” Fish passed away last week. We have no other information at present. Here is an oral history interview with Suzy produced by the Arizona Archaeologica...
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2025
19
Nov
Trail Memories
Today’s post kicks off our Trails series, a companion to our year-end fundraising campaign. We'll have weekly essays from now until the New Year. Thanks for your support!
Skylar Begay (Diné, Mandan and Hidatsa), Director, Tribal Collaboration in Outreach & Advocacy
New! Listen to the ...
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2025
18
Nov
Human Ancestors Created Tools Continuously for 300,000 Years
Goodness gracious, Friends, do I love the science of tree-ring dating!
My dissertation research, which I published in 1997 as Time, Trees, and Prehistory, explored the 15-year-long effort, from 1914 to 1929, in which Andrew Ellicott Douglass, an astronomer at the University of Arizona (UA) here i...
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2025
11
Nov
Protecting the Chaco Protection Zone
Hi Friends,
As promised, here’s the video/audio (opens at YouTube) of Paul Reed’s recent interview with Four Corners KSJE host Scott Michlin, in which my friend and colleague fiercely defends the 10-mile protection zone around Chaco Culture National Historical Park. The zone was created throu...
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2025
04
Nov
Chaco Zone in Jeopardy, Again
Hi Folks,
Paul Reed here, filling in for Steve this week.
One of our most beloved places—Chaco Culture National Historical Park—is once again threatened. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is moving quickly revoke the mineral withdrawal in the 10-mile zone of protection around Chaco Park....
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2025
03
Nov
SunZia Dawning
John R. Welch, Vice President, Preservation & Collaboration
(November 3, 2025)—I am not big on fall. In my ledger, arborescent polychromes don’t balance out the shortening days or the calls to abandon shorts and sandals for pants and shoes. I favor Fourth of July and Jerry Garcia birthday ...
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2025
28
Oct
Precontact Yup’ik Place Badly Impacted by Typhoon Halong
Dear Friends,
I write to you aboard a flight to my beloved hometown, Chicago.
I’m headed back to the Field Museum, where I worked from 1997 to 2006, to engage in discussions with their new curator of North American archaeology about collaborating on a field- and collections-based project foc...
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