• 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. ...

• 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 ...

• 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. ...

• The President Has No Power Unilaterally to Abolish or Materially Change a National Monument Designation Under the Antiquities Act of 1906 

  Rosenbaum, Robert; Shipe, Andrew; Beckett, Lindsey; Treaster, Andrew; Tyler, Jamen (5/3/2017)

  We (Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer) have been asked by our client, National Parks Conservation Association, whether a sitting President may unilaterally abolish or materially change a national monument that was established ...

• Supplementing Maize Agriculture in Basketmaker II Subsistence Dietary Analysis of Human Paleofeces from Turkey Pen Ruin 

  Battillo, Jenna (2017-05)

  This research explores the factors that motivated increasing reliance on maize during the Basketmaker II period in the North American Southwest. Through the analysis of 44 human paleofeces from Turkey Pen Ruin, Utah, I ...

• Ideal-Free Distribution and Ancestral Pueblo Occupation of Cedar Mesa, Utah 

  McGill, Kendall (2017-04)

  Ideal-free distribution (IFD) has been increasingly adopted by archaeologists to address questions about the relationship between settlement distribution, environment, and economy. This behavioral ecology model theorizes ...

• Costly Gobbling: Raising Turkeys in the Central Mesa Verde Area 

  Lipe, William D.; Ellyson, Laura; Bocinsky, Kyle; Lyle, Robin; Matson, R. G. (2017-03)

  This presentation focuses on comparisons of the Central Mesa Verde (CMV) and Northern Rio Grande (NRG) areas. Goals of the study included: 1.) Use NISP counts to assess relative abundance of turkey and artiodactyl bones ...

• Bears Ears Archaeological Experts Gathering: Assessing and Looking Ahead 

  Doelle, Bill (Archaeology Southwest, 2017)

  This report shares the outcomes of a two-day gathering of archaeologists who work or have worked within what is now Bears Ears National Monument or in southeastern Utah more generally. Our gathering sought to tap their ...

• Anthro News, Winter 2017 

  Department of Anthropology (2017)

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