Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology
- Mimbres Pottery Recovered from Possible Looters: Taos, Chama and Silver City homes were searched last month in an ongoing probe into illegal excavation of Mimbres pottery. The investigation began in late April when someone witnessed what they believed was an illegal dig in the Gila National Forest and called the Catron County sheriff. "They responded, and they found items in the car, interviewed the individuals and then forwarded it on to the Forest Service for additional investigation," said Kathy DeLucas of the Carson National Forest in Taos.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/jpjj - Santa Fe New Mexican
- Crow Canyon Studying Ancient Agricultural Techniques: Corn may seem like an impossible dryland crop for the Four Corners region. With an annual rainfall of 13 inches and soils full of clay, it's certainly not Iowa. Yet the early Ancestral Puebloans successfully grew enough corn, beans and squash without irrigation in a short growing season to support populations that equaled today's population in Montezuma County. How did they do it? That’s the answer being sought by a Pueblo Farming Project at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center northwest of Cortez.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/i4w5 - Cortez Journal
- Grand Canyon Archaeology Topic of Special Program at the Museum of Northern Arizona: Learn about the process of conducting archaeology in the Grand Canyon. Flagstaff adventure photographer Dawn Kish and archaeologists from the National Park Service and Museum of Northern Arizona will discuss images of recent archaeological research done by MNA in partnership with Grand Canyon National Park. Saturday, June 7 from 5:00 p.m.—6:30 p.m.
http://www.musnaz.org/exhibits/grandarch.html
- Preserve Petroglyphs: They look a little like ancient graffiti — the doodlings of an ancient hunter who was better with a chisel than a bow. And maybe that is why prehistoric petroglyphs don't garner the care or respect they deserve. People look at them and don't see the value. But the value is there.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700231226,00.html
- The Southwest as a Tri-Cultural Region: From my roof I can look west and see Mount Taylor, which looms above Grants, a small New Mexico city built on the dreams of unmeterably cheap electricity, thanks to the existence there of vast seams of uranium ore. Mount Taylor is one of the four sacred mountains of the Navajo, and you can't see Mount Taylor without also thinking about San Francisco Peaks, a mountain whose three peaks rise above Flagstaff, Arizona, 400 miles west of here. It's another mountain sacred to the Navajo and is also the winter home of the Hopi rain spirits, the kachinas. When you see clouds building up over San Francisco Peaks, the Hopi say, it is the kachinas rehearsing the business of bringing rain to Hopi cornfields.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/jyph - Mother Earth News
- Rafting though Ancient Places: Our first stop was Butler Wash, where a series of petroglyphs 100 yards from the river’s northern bank stretched so far along an overhanging hunk of sandstone they resembled an elaborate frieze. About 10 feet off the ground, bighorn sheep, ducks, spirals, zigzags and human figures scratched in white and dating from 5000 B.C. covered the terra-cotta-colored rock.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/l19c - New York Times, Site may require user regsistration.
- University of Arizona Archaeology Student Wins American Anthropology Association Dissertation Fellowship: Kerry F. Thompson received the award for the dissertation " A?k'ida;a; 'da hooghanée (They used to live here): An archaeological study of 19th century Navajo households." This annual Fellowship is intended to encourage members of ethnic minorities to complete doctoral degrees in anthropology, thereby increasing diversity in the discipline and/or promoting research on issues of concern among minority populations. Dissertation topics in all areas of the discipline are welcome. Doctoral students who require financial assistance to complete the write-up phase of the dissertation are urged to apply. A nonrenewable dissertation fellowship of $10,000 will be provided annually to one anthropology graduate student.
http://anthropology.arizona.edu/news_events/news_story.php?id=153
-The Historical Growth of Phoenix will be the Topic of a Lunchtime Lecture at the Carnegie Center: Professor VanderMeer, as his students like to call him, will be the Lunchtime Speaker at the Carnegie Center on June 12. The title of his talk is Transforming Desert Visions: The Growth of Phoenix, 1860 – 2006." If you've ever wondered how Phoenix could get so big, with 100 plus degree weather like were having now, here in the desert, on a horse with no name. Well, at this lunch time chat, the illustrious Dr. Phil will explain why Phoenix grew and how it was able to surpass in size and success other cities such as Tucson, El Paso, Albuquerque, and Winkleman. So come on down to the historic Carnegie Center next Thursday (June 12) from noon to 1:00 in Downtown Phoenix at 1100 W Washington St, Phoenix, 85007. There will be light refreshments and the parking is free as is the lecture.
- Reminder, there is still time to register for next week's 2008 Arizona Historic Preservation Conference!
http://www.azpreservation.com/
- Archaeology of the Western Mohave Desert to be Lecture Topic at the Next Meeting of the Pacific Coast Archaeology Society: Pacific Coast Archaeological Society's June 12th meeting will feature Dr. Mark Sutton speaking on "Excavations at the Koehn Lake Site, Western Mojave Desert." Excavations undertaken at the Koehn Lake site (CA-KER-875) revealed a Rose Spring Complex site situated on a lakeshore containing an extensive deposit and structures. The work at this site is important to an understanding of changing settlement and subsistence patterns across the Mojave Desert for the last several thousand years and may be related to larger-scale population movements into southern California and across the Great Basin. Meeting information: Thursday, June 12th, 2008, 7:30 pm at the Irvine Ranch Water District, 15600 Sand Canyon Ave., Irvine, CA.
Meeting is free and open to the public.
Http://www.pcas.org.
- Employment Opportunity (Las Vegas): Nevada Humanities is seeking a dynamic and visionary executive director to implement its recently adopted five-year program plan. The program plan addresses needs in the State of Nevada for community building, organizational capacity building, convening people for informed discussion and civic reflection, and new technologies for program delivery and communication. It also emphasizes expanding financial resources so that Nevada Humanities can keep pace with population growth and have a greater impact and influence. For additional information on the program plan and activities of Nevada Humanities, including the Online Nevada Encyclopedia, go to www.nevadahumanities.org.
http://www.cdarc.org/sat/nh.doc - Ms Word Document.
Showing posts with label Crow Canyon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Crow Canyon. Show all posts
Friday, June 6, 2008
Monday, June 2, 2008
25 Years at Crow Canyon, U of AZ Language Studies, Homol'ovi
Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology
- Crow Canyon Celebrates 25 Years of Research: Over Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s 25 years of existence, a variety of people from different places have visited, participated in a program, and had the center, and southwest Colorado, become a special place in their minds and memories. The center, founded in 1983, first attracted Lynn Romay-Khourie, of Haytime, Mo., in 1986 and 1987. She heard about their educational programs through an advertisement in an archaeology magazine.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/i0sm - Cortez Journal
- University of Arizona Working to Preserve Southwestern Languages: Research has shown that students of color who learn in their native language and are taught about their respective cultures and heritage tend to perform better academically. That is one reason why The University of Arizona’s American Indian Language Development Institute is working to preserve and revitalize indigenous languages and to also help educators figure out ways to teach languages to others.
http://uanews.org/node/19899
- Hopi History on Display at Homol'ovi Ruins State Park: The park, just off Interstate 40 north of Winslow, was created in 1993 at the urging of the Hopis, who were desperate to save their ancient villages from thieves and vandals. The ruins of villages from the 1200s to the late 1300s were filled with thousands of pots, luring unscrupulous collectors. "In the 1960s, a guy came in here with a backhoe," Berggren says. The thieves stole the pots and destroyed much of the surrounding village structures, all of which are sacred to the Hopis. It would be like tourists chipping off pieces of the Sistine Chapel ceiling when they visited. "We estimate we've lost 95 percent of the pots," Berggren says.
http://www.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/features/articles/0530homolovi0601.html
USC Conference Explores the "Underground" of the West: Historians digging up the past of California and the West have hit a rich vein of underground topics: cemeteries, coal mines, secret escape tunnels, buried treasures, earthquake faults and a little girl trapped in a well nine stories below. On the surface (no pun intended), these subjects may not have much in common other than what USC history professor William Deverell calls their "undergroundness." But "the subterranean West is a really important West," he said, noting the economic power of mining, oil gushers and water rights.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/3vve - LA Times (site may require user registration)
- Employment Opportunity (Tempe): Director of Cultural Resources – Senior Archeologist. Logan Simpson Design has a position open for a Director of Cultural Resources in our Tempe, AZ office. The ideal candidate will have the ability to achieve efficient, profitable, timely, and technically excellent performance from the cultural team through effective leadership, mentoring, training, and supervision. Individual must be able to demonstrate success in a management position while having frequent client and agency contact in a decision-making role. Minimum Requirements: Must have at least a Masters degree (Ph.D. preferred) in Anthropology or related field with twelve or more years of Southwestern archaeology consulting or agency experience or equivalent combination. Must have a minimum of 4 years of management or supervisory experience in a Cultural setting, Excellent technical writing, verbal communication, and public speaking skills. If you meet all the minimum requirements and would like to apply for this position, please email your résumé to hr@lsdaz.com. Please include a cover letter which includes your salary history. Contact Sue Tinsman, Human Resources Manager, Logan Simpson Design, Inc. 51 West Third Street, Suite 450 Tempe, AZ 85281,
Ph: 480.967.1343,Fax: 480.966.9232, stinsman@lsdaz.com
- Crow Canyon Celebrates 25 Years of Research: Over Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s 25 years of existence, a variety of people from different places have visited, participated in a program, and had the center, and southwest Colorado, become a special place in their minds and memories. The center, founded in 1983, first attracted Lynn Romay-Khourie, of Haytime, Mo., in 1986 and 1987. She heard about their educational programs through an advertisement in an archaeology magazine.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/i0sm - Cortez Journal
- University of Arizona Working to Preserve Southwestern Languages: Research has shown that students of color who learn in their native language and are taught about their respective cultures and heritage tend to perform better academically. That is one reason why The University of Arizona’s American Indian Language Development Institute is working to preserve and revitalize indigenous languages and to also help educators figure out ways to teach languages to others.
http://uanews.org/node/19899
- Hopi History on Display at Homol'ovi Ruins State Park: The park, just off Interstate 40 north of Winslow, was created in 1993 at the urging of the Hopis, who were desperate to save their ancient villages from thieves and vandals. The ruins of villages from the 1200s to the late 1300s were filled with thousands of pots, luring unscrupulous collectors. "In the 1960s, a guy came in here with a backhoe," Berggren says. The thieves stole the pots and destroyed much of the surrounding village structures, all of which are sacred to the Hopis. It would be like tourists chipping off pieces of the Sistine Chapel ceiling when they visited. "We estimate we've lost 95 percent of the pots," Berggren says.
http://www.azcentral.com/travel/arizona/features/articles/0530homolovi0601.html
USC Conference Explores the "Underground" of the West: Historians digging up the past of California and the West have hit a rich vein of underground topics: cemeteries, coal mines, secret escape tunnels, buried treasures, earthquake faults and a little girl trapped in a well nine stories below. On the surface (no pun intended), these subjects may not have much in common other than what USC history professor William Deverell calls their "undergroundness." But "the subterranean West is a really important West," he said, noting the economic power of mining, oil gushers and water rights.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/3vve - LA Times (site may require user registration)
- Employment Opportunity (Tempe): Director of Cultural Resources – Senior Archeologist. Logan Simpson Design has a position open for a Director of Cultural Resources in our Tempe, AZ office. The ideal candidate will have the ability to achieve efficient, profitable, timely, and technically excellent performance from the cultural team through effective leadership, mentoring, training, and supervision. Individual must be able to demonstrate success in a management position while having frequent client and agency contact in a decision-making role. Minimum Requirements: Must have at least a Masters degree (Ph.D. preferred) in Anthropology or related field with twelve or more years of Southwestern archaeology consulting or agency experience or equivalent combination. Must have a minimum of 4 years of management or supervisory experience in a Cultural setting, Excellent technical writing, verbal communication, and public speaking skills. If you meet all the minimum requirements and would like to apply for this position, please email your résumé to hr@lsdaz.com. Please include a cover letter which includes your salary history. Contact Sue Tinsman, Human Resources Manager, Logan Simpson Design, Inc. 51 West Third Street, Suite 450 Tempe, AZ 85281,
Ph: 480.967.1343,Fax: 480.966.9232, stinsman@lsdaz.com
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Archaeology @ Crow Canyon, Grand Canyon Uranium Mining Halted, ASNM Meetings
Southwestern Archaeology Making the News - A Service of the Center for Desert Archaeology
- Field Research Continues At Crow Canyon: Coffey and his fellow archaeologists at Crow Canyon are embarking on the second phase of a six-year research project this year. They recently finished the first three years of an excavation at Goodman Point Pueblo, and are now moving to examine peripheral sites in the areas that predate the village. The goal of the second part of this research is to understand why a group of people who lived in smaller, scattered sites might have coalesced into a large village centered on a natural spring, Coffey said.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/91ih - Cortez Journal
- Rock art subject of lecture, symposium (Pueblo, CO): The archaeologist who's overseeing a project to record rock art in the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site will speak in Pueblo as part of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month activities. Lawrence Loendorf will speak on "Pigments of the Imagination: Rock Paintings in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona" at 7 p.m. May 1 at Robert H. Rawlings Public Library. The public is welcome to attend his lecture at the meeting of Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society.
http://www.chieftain.com/life/1208865602/2
- Native and Environmental Groups Join Forces to Stop Uranium Mining Close to Grand Canyon: A federal judge in early April blocked the British company Vane Minerals from continuing exploratory uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. The judgment was a victory for environmental groups and for the 13 tribes that are affected by uranium mining in the western United States. But the renewed interest in an old mineral has tribal leaders on edge. At a congressional field hearing in Flagstaff March 28, Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. said Navajos ''do not want to sit by, ignorant of the effects of uranium mining, only to watch another generation of mothers and fathers die.'' Representatives from the Kaibab Paiute, Havasupai, Hualapai and Hopi tribes also testified at the hearing, along with representatives from the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service, local counties, mining companies and the scientific community.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417110
- 2008 Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) Annual Meeting: The 2008 Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) Annual Meeting will be held at the Best Western Inn & Suites, Farmington, NM on Saturday, April 26. Registration is $30 at the door. Center for Desert Archaeology Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed will be giving the Bandelier Lecture (Sat. night, 8pm): Salmon, Aztec, and Their Roles in the Chacoan and Post-Chacoan Worlds of the Middle San Juan Region. Contact mathiefj@unm.edu or visit the conference website for more information.
http://www.newmexico-archaeology.org/
- The Arizona Archaeological Council Presents an Arizona Bioarchaeology Roundtable: Friday, April 25th, 10 am - 4 pm at the Pueblo Grande Museum. The event features informal presentations and discussions of current research/issues facing the bioarchaeological community in Arizona and across the Southwest. For members and students the event is free of charge, for non-members admission is $10. Please Note: The Pueblo Grande Museum would appreciate participants reserving those parking spaces closest to the museum for museum visitors.
- "Archaeology's Nightmare" - Indiana Jones: "Forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world," the professor tells his adoring students. "We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and X never, ever marks the spot." True enough, at least in that professor's day job. Teaching at a swanky college, Indiana Jones wears tweed and a bow tie. During his "field work," however, it's leather jackets, a pistol, a fedora, and of course, , the bullwhip.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/ghvy - National Public Radio
- Field Research Continues At Crow Canyon: Coffey and his fellow archaeologists at Crow Canyon are embarking on the second phase of a six-year research project this year. They recently finished the first three years of an excavation at Goodman Point Pueblo, and are now moving to examine peripheral sites in the areas that predate the village. The goal of the second part of this research is to understand why a group of people who lived in smaller, scattered sites might have coalesced into a large village centered on a natural spring, Coffey said.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/91ih - Cortez Journal
- Rock art subject of lecture, symposium (Pueblo, CO): The archaeologist who's overseeing a project to record rock art in the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site will speak in Pueblo as part of Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month activities. Lawrence Loendorf will speak on "Pigments of the Imagination: Rock Paintings in Canyon de Chelly, Arizona" at 7 p.m. May 1 at Robert H. Rawlings Public Library. The public is welcome to attend his lecture at the meeting of Pueblo Archaeological and Historical Society.
http://www.chieftain.com/life/1208865602/2
- Native and Environmental Groups Join Forces to Stop Uranium Mining Close to Grand Canyon: A federal judge in early April blocked the British company Vane Minerals from continuing exploratory uranium mining near the Grand Canyon. The judgment was a victory for environmental groups and for the 13 tribes that are affected by uranium mining in the western United States. But the renewed interest in an old mineral has tribal leaders on edge. At a congressional field hearing in Flagstaff March 28, Navajo Nation President Joe Shirley Jr. said Navajos ''do not want to sit by, ignorant of the effects of uranium mining, only to watch another generation of mothers and fathers die.'' Representatives from the Kaibab Paiute, Havasupai, Hualapai and Hopi tribes also testified at the hearing, along with representatives from the National Park Service and the U.S. Forest Service, local counties, mining companies and the scientific community.
http://www.indiancountry.com/content.cfm?id=1096417110
- 2008 Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) Annual Meeting: The 2008 Archaeological Society of New Mexico (ASNM) Annual Meeting will be held at the Best Western Inn & Suites, Farmington, NM on Saturday, April 26. Registration is $30 at the door. Center for Desert Archaeology Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed will be giving the Bandelier Lecture (Sat. night, 8pm): Salmon, Aztec, and Their Roles in the Chacoan and Post-Chacoan Worlds of the Middle San Juan Region. Contact mathiefj@unm.edu or visit the conference website for more information.
http://www.newmexico-archaeology.org/
- The Arizona Archaeological Council Presents an Arizona Bioarchaeology Roundtable: Friday, April 25th, 10 am - 4 pm at the Pueblo Grande Museum. The event features informal presentations and discussions of current research/issues facing the bioarchaeological community in Arizona and across the Southwest. For members and students the event is free of charge, for non-members admission is $10. Please Note: The Pueblo Grande Museum would appreciate participants reserving those parking spaces closest to the museum for museum visitors.
- "Archaeology's Nightmare" - Indiana Jones: "Forget any ideas you've got about lost cities, exotic travel and digging up the world," the professor tells his adoring students. "We do not follow maps to buried treasure, and X never, ever marks the spot." True enough, at least in that professor's day job. Teaching at a swanky college, Indiana Jones wears tweed and a bow tie. During his "field work," however, it's leather jackets, a pistol, a fedora, and of course, , the bullwhip.
http://www.cdarc.org/page/ghvy - National Public Radio
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