Author: Nicole

• Visit to Los Morteros and sun daggers

  Tucson is full of great ways to engage with archaeology, but I don’t always take advantage of it because I am finishing up my dissertation. My friend convinced me to…

  

• Water in the Santa Cruz River

  I was taking water samples from around Santa Fe Ranch’s property to establish what the local oxygen isotopes in the water looked like prior to sampling archaeological cattle and sheep…

  

• Phoenix Comicon 2017 – Science Panels

  I was fortunate enough to take part in two science panels at Phoenix Comicon this year, which are part of the 90+ hours of continuing education credit hours offered to…

  

• SAAs Vancouver 2017

  Growing up and currently living in a land-locked area, it took me a while to figure out why there was a gas station in the middle of the harbor in…

  

• Take-a-look Day Arizona State Museum

  I represented the Stanley J. Olsen Laboratory of Zooarchaeology at ASM’s first-ever Take a Look Day. Here I am at the ready with common Arizona animal skeletons to help answer…

  

• Headed to San Xavier Tribal Monitor Training

  One of the parts of my work that is difficult to explain is training people to tell the difference between human and non-human bone. So every two years or so,…

  

• Mission Guevavi Field School wins 2017 SHA GMAC Diversity Field School Competition

  See full at anth.umd.edu. Many congrats to the P.I.s: J. Homer Thiel, Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman, and Jeremy Moss!

• San Diego del Pitiquito

  Late 18th-century paintings from the native peoples of Pitiquito

  

• Blogging the bits and pieces

  “For in the seemingly little and insignificant things that accumulate to create a lifetime, the essence of our existence is captured.” James Deetz, In Small Things Forgotten: The Archeology of Early…