• How Many Turkeys Did It Take to Make a Blanket? 

  Lipe, William D.; Tushingham, Shannon; Blinman, Eric; LaRue, Chuck; Webster, Laurie (4/27/2019)

  This talk was presented at the Canyons of the Ancients National Monument Visitor Center in Dolores, Colorado.

• Setting the Stage: The Landscape Archaeology of the Cedar Mesa Basketmaker II 

  Matson, R. G.; Lipe, William D. (2019-04-13)

  This paper was presented at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

• Tale of a Test Pit: The research history of a midden column from the Turkey Pen site, Utah 

  Battillo, Jenna; Matson, R. G.; Lipe, William D. (2019)

  Presented at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting. In 1972 R.G. Matson and a small crew excavated a dry, stratified midden at a Pueblo Cliff Dwelling site in Grand Gulch, as part of the Cedar Mesa Project. ...

• Anthro News, Winter 2018-2019 

  Department of Anthropology (2019)

• Archaeology and Politics ofthe Bears Ears National Monument in Utah 

  Lipe, William D. (11/29/2018)

  This talk was presented at Utah State University in Logan, Utah, on late November, 29, 2018.

• Bears Ears Controversy: Some Monumental Issues 

  Lipe, William D. (Archaeology Southwest, 1/8/2018)

  This blog post was published in January 2018 by WSU professor emeritus Bill Lipe in response to the Trump administration's announcement in December 2017 that it will radically shrink federally protected lands in Utah, ...

• Position on H.R. 4532, Shash Jáa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act 

  National Parks Conservation Association (2018-01)

  The National Parks Conservation Association submitted the following position to the U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources Federal Lands Subcommittee ahead of a hearing scheduled for January 9, 2018.

• Anthro News, Winter 2018 

  Department of Anthropology (2018)

• Presidential Authority to Revoke or Reduce National Monument Designations 

  Gaziano, Todd F.; Yoo, John (2018)

  The Antiquities Act of 1906 grants the president the power to designate national monuments in order to protect historic landmarks and structures. Pursuant to this power, a president has the corresponding power to revoke ...

• Turkey Pen Excavation 

  Matson, R. G. (2018)

  The Cedar Mesa Project was an archaeological project on Cedar Mesa in SE Utah, funded by the National Science Foundation and co-directed by William (Bill) Lipe and R.G. Matson. This report provides background information ...

• ETHNOBIOLOGICAL COLLABORATION WITH TWO SOCIETIES OF THE LATIN AMERICAN TROPICS 

  Medinaceli, Armando (2018)

  Ethnobiology, defined as the scientific study of dynamic relationships among peoples, biota, and environments (SoE, 2017), is a field that combines different approaches from other disciplines while also including issues ...

• STRANGERS IN A STRANGER LAND: LIVING HISTORY AND TRADITION IN THE LIVES OF ARAB-AMERICANS 

  Harpel, Whittaker (2018)

  Immigrants have been a part of the American story since the founding of the US state. However, while these experiences have undergone a transformation in the last forty years due to technological shifts and transformations, ...

• Lithics and the Late Prehistoric: Interaction on the Southern Columbia Plateau 

  Harris, Kathryn Ann (2018)

  The people of the Columbia Plateau have been frequently characterized as a homogenous culture despite a 2,500-year depth of history and large spatial extent. Moreover, differences in artifact form, assemblage composition, ...

• Understanding Culture History Using Topographic Morphometrics of Lithic Projectile Points: Paleoindian Case Studies from the Great Plains and Northern Alaska 

  Fisher, Philip (2018)

  The classification of projectile points into types has long been used by archaeologists to develop regional chronologies and serves as a basis by which to explain cultural continuity or change over time. This study ...

• ‘TIS THE SEASON: AN EXPERIMENTAL EXAMINATION OF TOOLKIT VARIABILITY, LATE PLEISTOCENE- EARLY HOLOCENE INTERIOR ALASKA 

  Adams, Jacob (2018)

  Simultaneous use of two distinct projectile technologies in interior Alaska, during the end of the Pleistocene and early Holocene, is a study domain that has generated many diverse hypotheses. Some researchers view the ...

• Bears Ears Controversy: Presidential Proclamation Modifying the Bears Ears National Monument 

  White House Press Office (12/4/2017)

  This proclamation by President Donald J. Trump details a significant reduction to the size of Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante--previously federally protected lands in Utah. This reduction of ...

• H.R. 4532: Shash Jaa National Monument and Indian Creek National Monument Act 

  Curtis, John (2017-12)

  This bill, introduced in the U.S. House of Representatives by Rep. John Curtis (R-UT), builds on President Trump’s reduction of Bears Ears National Monument (BENM) and creates a tribally co-managed national monument in Utah.

• The Archaeology of Bears Ears 

  Burrillo, R.E. (SAA Archaeological Record, 2017-11)

  This report recounts the history of archaeology in the Bears Ears region of Utah (USA), including the Cedar Mesa Project.

• Grand Gulch: First Encounters and Lasting Impressions 

  Burrillo, R.E. (Blue Mountain Shadows: The Magazine of San Juan History, 2017-11)

  R.E. Burrillo hails from New York and, as an archaeologist, has an intense interest in the cultures of the Southwest. One of those cultures that he is particularly drawn to is that of the Ancestral Puebloans or Anasazi. ...

• Modeling Archaeological Sites and Forest History on Cedar Mesa, SE Utah 

  Matson, R. G.; Lipe, William D. (9/12/2017)

  Producing a model that successfully predicts archaeological site densities over a large area of more than 1,000,00 acres which had diverse prehistoric adaptations and diverse environments is an extremely difficult task. ...

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