Michelle Stevens, the Center’s first Preservation Fellow, completes her dissertation, Archaic and Early Agricultural Period Land Use in Cienega Valley, Southeastern Arizona, in October 2001. Stevens is awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona.

Preservation Fellow Jim Vint begins research on the protohistoric and earliest periods in the San Pedro River Valley.

Preservation Fellow Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, a doctoral student in the “Archaeology and Social Context” program at Indiana University, initiates research on the ways in which contemporary people use, value, and interpret the archaeological past in the San Pedro Valley.

In October 2001, an advanced week-long seminar, jointly sponsored by the Center and the Museum of Northern Arizona, gathers scholars from across North America to consider evidence of connections between the Zuni and prehistoric Mogollon. See some of the results of the research inspired by the seminar in Archaeology Southwest Vol. 22, No. 2, “Exploring Zuni Origins,” by clicking here.

A National Endowment for the Humanities grant helps the Center incorporate Tohono O’odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache perspectives into the mosaic of archaeology and history in the San Pedro Valley.

Salmon Ruins Museum and the Center join forces to bring that site’s research potential to fruition and improve curation and preservation efforts at the site. Center Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed is based at Salmon. His first task: to update and publish a comprehensive report on past work at this major Chacoan outlier.