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Draft of proposed National Heritage Area ready for review
  By: Linda Marie Golier - April 1st, 2008
  FLAGSTAFF, AZ (April 1, 2008) - The efforts of nearly 150 people over the past year and a half will be available for public review and comment this month when Linda Marie Golier, Heritage Programs Coordinator for the Center for Desert Archaeology, conducts a number of public open houses featuring drafts of the feasibility study for the proposed Little Colorado River Valley National Heritage Area... Read Full Article

$111,500 Matching Grant Awarded to the Center for Desert Archaeology
  By: Linda Pierce - March 13th, 2008
  Center for Desert Archaeology Is One of 24 Partners Sharing in $5 Million in Grants to Strengthen Local Preservation Efforts. Read Full Article

Heritage Area Questions and Answers
  By: Linda Marie Golier - January 14th, 2008
  FLAGSTAFF, AZ (January 14, 2008) - Many cities, towns, and non-governmental organizations in Navajo and Apache Counties have lent their formal support to the proposed Little Colorado River Valley National Heritage Area. They are part of a group of 54 public and private organizations to do so... Read Full Article

Two Down, Two to Go in Little Colorado Designation Effort
  By: Linda Marie Golier - August 30th, 2007
  FLAGSTAFF, AZ (August 20, 2007) - "Two down, two to go," remarks Linda Marie Golier about an effort to achieve National Heritage Area designation for the Little Colorado River Valley. Read Full Article

Little Colorado Designation Heating Up This Summer
  By: Linda Marie Golier - April 30th, 2007
  FLAGSTAFF, AZ (April 30, 2007) -- "Things are really cooking now," comments Linda Marie Golier, coordinator of the Little Colorado River Valley National Heritage Area designation effort. "I've met lots of dedicated and motivated people during the first round of meetings in communities all throughout the proposed Area. It's exciting to see it starting to take shape." Read Full Article

Your Chance to Bring National Recognition to the Little Colorado
  By: Linda Marie Golier - February 8th, 2007
  There are stories this land, and the people living on it, have to tell - stories are that are unlike those in other parts of the nation. Read Full Article

Plans for Little Colorado River Valley National Heritage Area Moving Full Steam Ahead
  By: Linda Marie Golier - August 31st, 2006
  The Center for Desert Archaeology is working toward the establishment of the Little Colorado River Valley National Heritage Area. Read Full Article

Search for the next Graduate Preservation Fellow
  By: Linda Pierce - July 23rd, 2006
  Applications are now being accepted for the Center for Desert Archaeology's next Preservation Fellow, to focus research in the Upper Gila Valley of Arizona and New Mexico. Application deadline: October 15, 2006. More information on the Center's Preservation Fellowship.

Book News - Advance Orders for Salmon Report
  By: Linda Pierce - April 27th, 2006
  Advance orders are now being taken for Thirty-Five Years of Archaeological Research at Salmon Ruins, New Mexico (Three Volumes). Read Full Article

New Publication - AP 38
  By: Linda Pierce - October 14th, 2005
  Down by the River: Archaeological and Historical Studies of the Leon Family Farmstead (Anthropological Paper No. 38) Read Full Article

New Publication - AP 34
  By: Linda Pierce - October 14th, 2005
  Subsistence and Resource Use Strategies of Early Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona (Anthropological Papers No. 34) Read Full Article

NEW PUBLICATION
  By: Linda Pierce - July 22nd, 2005
  Material Cultures and Lifeways of Early Agricultural Communities in Southern Arizona (Anthropological Paper No. 35) Read Full Article

$200,000 NSF Grant for Research in the Middle San Juan
  By: Linda Pierce - July 19th, 2005
  $200,000 National Science Foundation Grant Awarded to the Center for Desert Archaeology for Research in the Middle San Juan Region of Northwest New Mexico Read Full Article

NEW PUBLICATION
  By: Linda Pierce - April 8th, 2005
  Ancient Farmers of the Safford Basin: Archaeology of the U.S. 70 Safford-to-Thatcher Project (Anthro. Paper No. 39) Read Full Article

2000 Years of Settlement in the Tonto Basin: Overview and Synthesis of the Tonto Creek Archaeological Project - New Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - December 6th, 2004
  Final Tonto Creek Archaeological Project Publication Read Full Article

In Search of the Coronado Project Discovers Array of Historical Artifacts
  By: Linda Pierce - October 25th, 2004
  Launched in August of 2004, the Coronado Project was an outreach and public education project that sought to determine the route of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's infamous expedition of 1540 from northern Mexico to the Pueblo of Zuni. The Center anticipated that once local residents in Arizona and New Mexico became aware of key Coronado-era artifact types, they might be able to help solve the mystery of Coronado's route. Read Full Article

Hohokam Farming on the Salt River Floodplain: Refining Models and Analytical Methods - New Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - September 28th, 2004
  This is the second of two volumes presenting the results of data recovery investigations at the Dutch Canal Ruin (AZ T:12:62 [ASM]), conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., at the western end of the North Runway, Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport. Read Full Article

$200,000 National Science Foundation Grant Awarded to the Center for Desert Archaeology
  By: Linda Pierce - June 8th, 2004
  The Center for Desert Archaeology was recently awarded a $200,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to fund a two-year research project entitled "Precontact Population Decline and Coalescence in the Southern Southwest." Read Full Article

Roots of Sedentism: Archaeological Excavations at Valencia Vieja - New Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - May 28th, 2004
  Roots of Sedentism: Archaeological Excavations at Valencia Vieja, a Founding Village in the Tucson Basin of Southern Arizona Read Full Article

Anasazi Archaeology at the Millennium: Proceedings of the Sixth Occasional Anasazi Symposium - New Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - December 18th, 2003
  The Center for Desert Archaeology is pleased to announce the publication of the proceedings of the Sixth Occasional Anasazi Symposium. Read Full Article

Hohokam Farming on the Salt River Floodplain - New Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - December 18th, 2003
  This volume focuses upon the results of archaeological investigations by Desert Archaeology, Inc. in advance of the expansion of Sky Harbor International Airport's North Runway in Phoenix, Arizona. Read Full Article

Center for Desert Archaeology named Arizona Humanities Council's Distinguished Organization of the Year
  By: Linda Pierce - September 28th, 2002
  On Sunday, October 27, 2002, The Arizona Humanities Council will present its Distinguished Organization award to the Center for Desert Archaeology. Read Full Article

Four Sites Permanently protected
  By: Linda Pierce - September 26th, 2002
  The Center for Desert Archaeology officially launched a new phase of its archaeological preservation program with the recent signing of its first archaeological conservation easement and the purchase of its first archaeological site. Read Full Article

Salmon Ruins Museum awarded grant from the Save America's Treasures Program
  By: Linda Pierce - September 26th, 2002
  Salmon Ruins Museum has been awarded a $175,000 grant from the prestigious Save America's Treasures program of the National Park Service and National Endowment for the Arts. Read Full Article

New Tonto Creek Archaeological Project Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - July 24th, 2002
  The Tonto Creek Archaeological Project, funded by the Arizona Department of Transportation, was conducted by Desert Archaeology, Inc., in advance of the 1994-1996 realignment of Arizona State Route 188 in the Tonto Basin of east-central Arizona. Read Full Article

Life and Death along Tonto Creek - New Publication
  By: Linda Pierce - February 7th, 2002
  Excavations at 27 archaeological sites along State Route 188 in the Tonto Basin of east-Central Arizona by Desert Archaeology, Inc. from 1992-1996 uncovered 315 burials and a remarkable assemblage of mortuary offerings. Read Full Article

First Center for Desert Archaeology/Museum of Northern Arizona Advanced Seminar
  By: Linda Pierce - January 16th, 2002
  In October 2001, scholars from across North America met in the Historic Colton House on the campus of the Museum of Northern Arizona in Flagstaff, Arizona, for a week-long, intensive seminar entitled "An Exploration of Mogollon-Zuni Relationships." Read Full Article

A Partnership for Preservation at Salmon Ruins
  By: Linda Pierce - January 16th, 2002
  The Center for Desert Archaeology announces a new partnership with Salmon Ruins Museum to renew the research potential of this important Chacoan outlier. Read Full Article

Center for Desert Archaeology Sponsoring New Fellowships
  By: Linda Pierce - July 11th, 2001
  Graduate students Jim Vint (University of Arizona) and Chip Colwell-Chanthaphonh (Indiana University) will join the Center for Desert Archaeology later this year as the Center's new Preservation Fellows for 2001-2004. Read Full Article

Center for Desert Archaeology Awarded NEH Grant
  By: Linda Pierce - June 19th, 2001
  The Center for Desert Archaeology was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to fund a two-year ethnohistoric research project in the San Pedro River Valley of southeastern Arizona. Read Full Article

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