Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society Wed, 16 May 2012 15:02:19 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 New Board of Directors Elected http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/05/new-board-of-directors-elected/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/05/new-board-of-directors-elected/#comments Thu, 03 May 2012 19:39:02 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=2216 I would like to congratulate the four newly elected members of the AAHS Board of Directors: Ken Fleshman, Mary Prasciunas, Suzanne Crawford, and Patrick Lyons. Ken is an avocational archaeologist and a retired Public Health Officer. Mary is a Senior Project Manager and Principal Investigator at Westland Resources, Inc., with a research interest in Paleoindian archaeology and the peopling of the Americas. Suzanne is a criminal defense lawyer with a background in archaeology and journalism. Patrick, who will be the Arizona State Museum representative to the Board, is Head of Collections at the museum and also its acting Associate Director. In addition to these four new members, let me also congratulate two continuing Board members who have been elected to offices on the Board. Jesse Ballenger will serve as the new AAHS President. He is a Senior Project Director at Statistical Research, Inc., whose research interests focus on hunter-gatherer societies in Arizona and Montana. Donna Yoder, a retired faculty member at Pima Community College and a dedicated rock art enthusiast, will be taking over as Recording Secretary. The other officers on the Board were reelected to their positions: Katherine Cerino as Vice President for Activities, Mike Diehl as Vice President for Membership, George Harding as Treasurer, and Jon Boyd as Communications Officer. The new Board begins its duties on July 1.

My sincere thanks to all of the newly elected and reelected Board members and officers for their willingness to serve, and a special thanks to outgoing Board members Bill Gillespie and Judith Billings for their service. I am also ending my term on the Board. It has been a pleasure to work with such a dedicated group of people, and I want to thank everyone for the help they have given me over the past year as I have tried (sometimes struggled) to properly fill the role of President. I am confident that, as long as fine people continue to volunteer their time, talents, and energy to service on the Board and its committees, the future of AAHS is bright.

- Scott O’Mack

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/05/new-board-of-directors-elected/feed/ 0 2012 Research Awards Announced http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/03/2012-research-awards-announced/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/03/2012-research-awards-announced/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 21:49:31 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=2179 The AAHS Scholarships and Research Grants Committee has awarded four $1,000 research grants to applicants from four Universities as well as six $300 travel grants for students to attend the SAA meeting. Research grants were awarded to Michael Mathiowetz, Adjunct Faculty at California State University, Dominquez Hills for documenting and analyszing  a large collection of Aztatlan ceramics in Nayarit, Mexico; Kristen Safi a graduate student at Washington State University for test excavations at the Large Gap Chaco-style great house community in New Mexico; Jakob Sedig, a graduate student at the University of Colorado for test excavations at Woodrow Ruin, a Mimbres Classic site in the Upper Gila region of New Mexico and to Andrew Richard, an undergraduate student at the University of Arizona for an experimental study on breakage patterns of Clovis and Folsom projectile points. Congratulations to all!

Erina Gruner, doctoral student from SUNY Binghamton is the winner of 2012 The Julian D. Hayden Student Paper Competion sponsored annually by AAHS and AAC. Erina’s paper is entitled “Re-envisioning Nativism: The Use of Ecclesiastical Paraphernalia during the Pueblo Revolt”.

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/03/2012-research-awards-announced/feed/ 0 Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist by Julian D. Hayden; edited by Bill Broyles and Diane E. Boyer http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/02/field-man-life-as-a-desert-archaeologist-by-julian-d-hayden-edited-by-bill-broyles-and-diane-e-boyer/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/02/field-man-life-as-a-desert-archaeologist-by-julian-d-hayden-edited-by-bill-broyles-and-diane-e-boyer/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:20:01 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=2087 Kiva Book Review Vol 77 (No 3) Book Review 3

Reviewed by Todd W. Bostwick, Verde Valley Archaeology Center, Camp Verde, and PaleoWest Archaeology, Phoenix.

Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist by Julian D. Hayden; edited by Bill Broyles and Diane E. Boyer.

280 pp., 114 halftones and illustrations, 1 map, 1 table, foreword, epilogue, appendices, bibliography, index.

University of Arizona Press, 2011

$45 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-8165-2905-6.

To read review (PDF format) Field Man: Life as a Desert Archaeologist

 

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Reviewed by Linda S. Cordell, School for Advanced Research, Santa Fe

Leaving Mesa Verde: Peril and Change in the Thirteenth-Century Southwest, edited
by Timothy A. Kohler, Mark D. Varien, and Aaron M. Wright

480 pp., 42 illustrations,

27 tables, foreward, preface, index, references cited.

Amerind Studies in Archaeology, University of Arizona Press, 2010. $65.00 (cloth) ISBN 978-0-8165-2885-1.

To read review (PDF format) Leaving Mesa Verde

 

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Reviewed by Christine R. Szuter, Arizona State University, Tempe

Behavioral Archaeology: Principles and Practice, by Michael Brian Schiffer with the
assistance of Kacy L. Hollenback and contributions by Kacy L. Hollenback, James, M. Skibo, and William H. Walker.

220 pages. Equinox Publishing Ltd, 2010.

$45.00 (Paper). ISBN 978-1-84553-288-8.

To read review (PDF format) Behavorial Archaeology: Principles and Practice

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2012/02/behavioral-archaeology-principles-and-practice-by-michael-brian-schiffer/feed/ 0 Call for 2012 AAHS Research Scholarships and Grants http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/10/call-for-aahs-research-scholarships-and-grants/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/10/call-for-aahs-research-scholarships-and-grants/#comments Fri, 07 Oct 2011 15:29:11 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=1836 AAHS has issued a call for proposal for the annual awards for Research Scholarships and Travel Grants. Proposals are due between January 1 and February 15, 2012. For more information click here.

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/10/call-for-aahs-research-scholarships-and-grants/feed/ 0 Annual Used Book Sale http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/09/1797/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/09/1797/#comments Tue, 27 Sep 2011 20:03:30 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=1797 Saturday, November 19, 2011
9 a.m.–4 p.m. in the Lobby of the Arizona State Museum

This very popular USED book sale is sponsored  by the Arizona Archaeological and Historical Society to benefit the Arizona State Museum Library. Books start at $1, journals as low as 25¢, huge selections in anthropology with emphasis on the southwestern U.S. and Mexico; non-academic materials, too!

 AAHS and ASM members admitted one hour early for exclusive shopping! 

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/09/1797/feed/ 0 The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua, Mexico by Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/the-neighbors-of-casas-grandes-excavating-medio-period-communities-of-northwest-chihuahua-mexico-by-michael-e-whalen-and-paul-e-minnis/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/the-neighbors-of-casas-grandes-excavating-medio-period-communities-of-northwest-chihuahua-mexico-by-michael-e-whalen-and-paul-e-minnis/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:21:04 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=1721 Kiva Book Review Vol 77, No 1

Reviewed by Christine S. VanPool

The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest

Chihuahua, Mexico by Michael E. Whalen and Paul E. Minnis. 464 pp., 31 b/w

photos, 89 illustrations, 100 tables. The University of Arizona Press, Tucson, 2009.

$60.00 (Cloth). ISBN 978-0-8165-2760-1.

To read review (PDF Format) The Neighbors of Casas Grandes: Excavating Medio Period Communities of Northwest Chihuahua

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/the-neighbors-of-casas-grandes-excavating-medio-period-communities-of-northwest-chihuahua-mexico-by-michael-e-whalen-and-paul-e-minnis/feed/ 0 Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology by Todd A. Surovell http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/toward-a-behavioral-ecology-of-lithic-technology-cases-from-paleoindian-archaeology-by-todd-a-surovell/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/toward-a-behavioral-ecology-of-lithic-technology-cases-from-paleoindian-archaeology-by-todd-a-surovell/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 01:15:39 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=1716 Kiva Book Review Vol 77, No 1

Reviewed by William Andrefsky Jr.

Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology

by Todd A. Surovell. 280 pp., 10 b/w photos, 66 illustrations, 2 maps, 20 tables,

Preface, Index, References Cited. University of Arizona Press, 2009. $60.00 (Cloth).

ISBN 978-0-8165-2810-3.

To read reviews (PDF Format) Toward a Behavioral Ecology of Lithic Technology: Cases from Paleoindian Archaeology

 

]]> http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/toward-a-behavioral-ecology-of-lithic-technology-cases-from-paleoindian-archaeology-by-todd-a-surovell/feed/ 0 The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond, edited by Michelle Hegmon http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/the-archaeology-of-regional-interaction-religion-warfare-and-exchange-across-the-american-southwest-and-beyond/ http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/2011/08/the-archaeology-of-regional-interaction-religion-warfare-and-exchange-across-the-american-southwest-and-beyond/#comments Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:59:02 +0000 Katherine Cerino http://www.az-arch-and-hist.org/?p=1709 Kiva Book Review Vol 77, No 1

Reviewed by Catherine Cameron

The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the

American Southwest and Beyond, edited by Michelle Hegmon. 467 pp., 22 maps,

34 fi gures, 18 tables, Foreword, Preface, Index. The University Press of Colorado,

2008. $34.95 (Paper). ISBN 978-0-87081-904-9.

To read review (PDF Format) The Archaeology of Regional Interaction: Religion, Warfare and Exchange across the American Southwest and Beyond.

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