In the Americas, the deep Indigenous past prior to 12,000 years before the present has been aggressively denied by American anthropologists for over...
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What approach should we have when initiating conversations with Indigenous peoples? How can we engage and collaborate with Indigenous peoples in our...
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Located in southwestern Colorado, the Dolores Archaeological Program, or DAP, represents one of the largest archaeology projects ever conducted in...
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For over 35 years, the Southwest Archaeological Obsidian Project, funded by multiple National Science Foundation grants, the Leakey Foundation, and...
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When Stuart Struever co-founded Crow Canyon Archaeological Center in 1982, he recognized the need for an institution that could conduct and support...
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Two seasons of archaeological investigations at the Merchant site and its surroundings documented one of the most unusual and significant...
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What All of Us Can Learn from the Old Ones
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08-03-2023
In this presentation, Dr. Ortman discusses two important movements in archaeology today. The first is the recognition that archaeologists study the...
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Ground stone tool research, particularly those instruments used to process food resources, has moved closer to the foreground of archaeological...
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Gardens in the Sand: Historic Early Landscapes in the Southwest
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08-17-2023
Ancestral Pueblo people in early New Mexico and elsewhere in the Southwest began to create plazas, courtyards, terraces, and ritual landscape...
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Ravenous collectors stripped antiquities from Ancestral Puebloan communities at the turn of the 20th century. They shipped boxcar loads of artifacts...
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Seeking My Center Place: Migrations through Science & Tradition
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08-31-2023
The title of this talk shares a name with a chapter Lyle Balenquah wrote for a forthcoming volume about "Indigenous Archaeology." The volume should...
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Over 1,000 years ago, the Fremont lived in the Uinta Basin; like those in the Four Corners area at the same time, these people farmed and gathered...
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