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Preservation Archaeology News
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Announcing...
"From Above: Images of a Storied Land - The Photography of Adriel Heisey"
The Center is pleased to announce the upcoming opening of an exhibition of Adriel Heisey's large-format landscape photographs at the Albuquerque Museum on May 9, 2004. Read more...
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Mounds and Migrants in the Classic Period - The Center's long term preservation archaeology project in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona is resulting in new insights and understanding of the late Classic period in the Southwest. Read more... |
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What's New at the Center's Website?
One Valley, Many Histories: Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache History in the San Pedro Valley - Archaeology Southwest, Winter 2004 (vol. 18, no.1).
Three New Papers added to Online Readings - The Camp Grant Massacre, virtue ethics, and an analysis of artifacts in the Benson Public Library collection. |
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March is Arizona's Archaeology Awareness Month! Center archaeologists will be making a wide variety of presentations in communities throughout the state. For a complete list, click here.
Arizona's Archaeology Awareness Month is a program of the State Historic Preservation Office.
The rest of the southwestern states celebrate our shared heritage in the month of May! For more information, visit the links below:
Colorado Archaeology and Historic Preservation Month
New Mexico Heritage Preservation Month
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Reinvesting in Salmon Ruins - Highlights of the Center's San Juan Basin Project in northwestern New Mexico. The Center is now well over two years into its three-and-a-half-year partnership with Salmon Ruins Museum in Farmington, New Mexico, and the pace of work continues at a rapid clip. Upgrades to the curation facility have been completed, thanks to funding from a Save America's Treasures grant. Curator Nancy Sweet Espinosa and her group of loyal volunteers have raised the collections curation completion rate from 12% to 35% over the past year.
Center Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed is hard at work writing and editing the Salmon Technical report series, This long-awaited multi-volume report on the excavation of Salmon Pueblo and analysis of artifacts is scheduled to be completed in early 2005.
Planning is in full swing for the Salmon Working Conference in April 2004. Twenty invited scholars from across the Southwest will convene in closed session for several days to discuss the Puebloan archaeology of Salmon, Aztec, and the surrounding Middle San Juan region. A public forum entitled Salmon, Aztec, and La Plata Revisited: A New Look at Pueblo Archaeology of the Four Corners, will cap the conference on Saturday , April 17th, at the Farmington Library. For more information about Salmon Ruins, visit their website at www.salmonruins.com. |
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The Center's 2003 Year-end Appeal totals $8,900! Our sincere thanks to the 53 donors who responded to the Center's 2003 year-end appeal with generous gifts above and beyond their membership dues. This extra support is truly appreciated, and makes a difference as we continue our preservation archaeology work throughout the Southwest. |
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The Gadsden Purchase - Starnet, the Arizona Daily Star newspaper's on-line version, recently featured a very informative section on the 150th anniversary of the Gadsden Purchase. You can see some of Center Preservation Archaeologist Doug Gann's work in the Flash presentation along the right-hand column of the site at http://azstarnet.com/sn/gadsden/. |
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Cienega Corridor Pioneer Day is March 27, 2004 - The purpose of this first annual spring event, sponsored by the Cienega Corridor Conservation Council and Colossal Cave Mountain Park, is to share the cultural, biological, and historical significance of the Cienega Corridor of southeastern Arizona. The Center for Desert Archaeology will have an information table at the event, so stop by and say hi! For more information, click here. |
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The Center for Desert Archaeology is a private nonprofit organization that promotes the stewardship of archaeological and historical resources in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest through active research, preservation efforts, and public education.
You can help us pursue this mission by becoming a member or making a donation on-line. Thank you! |
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