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Jane Sliva and Jenny Adams teach a Workshop in Stone Tool Technology for Center members. This two-part workshop gives participants a hands-on opportunity to experience how ground and flaked stone tools were made and used. As a companion to the workshop, the Center publishes its popular ground stone and flaked stone analysis manuals.
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| The San Pedro Archaeological Preservation Program is established. This long-term initiative combines landscape archaeology research with efforts to preserve the remarkable cultural resources found along the entire San Pedro River watershed. |
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The Center receives the Arizona Governor's Award for Historic Preservation in the Education Category for its public programs. |
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Preservation Fellow Michelle Stevens leads Center volunteers in a survey of over 40 square miles in the Cienega Valley, southeast of Tucson. |
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Archaeology in the Mountain Shadows: Exploring the Romero Ruin by Deborah L. Swartz and William H. Doelle is published. This is the first publication in the Archaeology Library, a new Center publication series designed for the general public.
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| The Center's Preservation Fellowship program is established. |
| The Center receives its first grant from the Arizona Humanities Council for "Ranches, Mines, Tracks, and Trails: Living the Pioneer's Life in the Santa Catalina Mountains." This oral history project, led by Connie Allen-Bacon, documents the experiences of early settlers in the Catalina Mountains north of Tucson. |
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1998-1999
Center volunteers explore more areas in urban Tucson in search of remnants of the Presidio wall. |
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The premier issue of Archaeology Southwest is published. Growing out of 12 years of the Archaeology in Tucson newsletter, Archaeology Southwest expands both the geographic scale of coverage and the size of the publication. |
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1999-2000
With strong volunteer support, the Center undertakes a two-year program of test excavations of 30 sites along the 75 mile stretch of the Lower San Pedro River between Winkelman and Benson. This research builds on and complements survey data for the region collected by Center volunteers from 1990 to 1995. |
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A National Science Foundation grant allows the Center to create a sand petrofacies model for the entire San Pedro River Valley. This information will be invaluable in answering questions regarding prehistoric ceramic production, distribution, and use. |
| Center President William Doelle chairs a session on archaeological resource preservation at the annual National Trust for Historic Preservation meetings in Los Angeles. |
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Elena and the Coin, the Center's first children's book is published. This novel presents a picture of life in Tucson during the middle 19th century, and was inspired by the many schoolchildren who visited the Center's Presidio wall
excavations. |
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The Center partners with Echo Productions of Flagstaff to create "In the Shadow of the Volcano: Prehistoric Life in Northern Arizona," a 28-minute video on recent archaeological excavations by Desert Archaeology, Inc. along U.S. Highway 89 north of Flagstaff. Public showings of the video are held in Flagstaff, Tucson, and Phoenix. |
| Strategic planning begins on the Center's Heritage Southwest Initiative, a major multi-year program with the goal of building a preservation archaeology network across the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest.
2000-Present: Preservation of information is the goal of the Snaketown ceramics study. Detailed line drawings and measurements of thousands of ceramic pots and other artifacts from the 1930s and 1960s excavations at the site of Snaketown are being created prior to the return of these artifacts to the Gila River Indian Community. |
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2001
Michelle Stevens, the Center's first Preservartion Fellow, completes her dissertation entitled, "Archaic and Early Agricultural Period Land Use in Cienega Valley, Southeastern Arizona" in October 2001 and is awarded a Ph.D. degree from the University of Arizona. |
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| Preservation Fellow Jim Vint, currently
in the Ph.D program at the University of Arizona Department
of Anthropology, begins research on the proto-historic
and earliest periods in the San Pedro River Valley. |
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| Preservation Fellow Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh, a doctoral student in the "Archaeology and Social Context" program at Indiana University, begins his research on the ways in which contemporary people use, value and interpret the archaeological past in the San Pedro Valley. |
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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 for connections between the Zuni and prehistoric Mogollon. |
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| A National Endowment for the Humanities grant is helping the Center incorporate Tohono O'odham, Hopi, Zuni, and Western Apache perspectives into the mosaic of archaeology and history in the San Pedro Valley. |
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Salmon Ruins Museum and the Center have joined forces to bring that site's research potential to fruition and to improve curation and preservation efforts at the site. Center Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed will be working at Salmon for the next three years. His first task is to update and publish a comprehensive report on past work at this major Chacoan outlier. |
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| On the horizon...coming soon |
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