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Short throwback to an incredible summer field season with these fabulous folks. If you want to know more about what they did, head on over to glohre.wordpress.com and check out there blogs (missing is the excellent Jaye Smith). #GLoH2018 (at Chaco Canyon Ancient Ruins NM) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnQWMS6AXLM/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=i4lqngfforon

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And then this happened. The Faculty of Archaeology at Leiden is now the matrix. #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent #GLoH2018 #archaeology #history #archaeologylife #pubarch #anthropology #igarchtravel #archeologists #historygram #historymatters #archaeologytravel #americansouthwest #divine_deserts #igsouthwest #newmexico #newmexicotrue #historybuff #thegreatsw #historytravel #historylesson #arqueológica #arqueológia #archeologische #archeologie #archaeogram #paleogram

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For our final #GLoH2018 student blog post, Rosaida Brahim on the archaeological politics of water rights. "When archaeological evidence, which is almost never bulletproof and whose interpretations often reveal researcher bias, is used to determine the validity of ancestral claims, this is when the consequences become dire. Water rights claims have been argued and contested in courts on a large scale since the 1980’s, with tensions rising between indigenous and non-indigenous groups as well as between various indigenous groups themselves." Image: Prehispanic cobble garden between Española and Santa Fe. https://glohre.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/the-archaeological-politics-of-water-rights-in-the-southwest/

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For today's #GLoH2018 post, Luke Oomen talks about the challenges of learning new technologies with a shout-out to Ed Gonzalez-Tennant's Virtual Rosewood project. "In the end photogrammetry is easy to do. The program will do the work for you. The challenge is in taking the photos correctly." Image of Gallina sandstone tri-notched axe/hoe by Luke Oomen. https://glohre.wordpress.com/2018/07/12/polishing-a-sandstone-axe/

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First blog post on the Gallina Landscapes of History Project is up and running! More to follow each day for a week or so "At this point, in my archaeological career, I’ve worked as a contract archaeologist, as an agency archaeologist for Federal land management, in the non-profit sector, and in academia. I’ve even worked in both the U.S. and in Europe. But this was easily the most challenging field season I’ve had. It was also one of the most fulfilling." #GLoH2018 #thetattoedtrowel archaeology #archaeologylife #pubarch #anthropology #history #igarchtravel #archeologists #historygram #historymatters #archaeologytravel #americansouthwest #thepastispresent #divine_deserts #igsouthwest #newmexico #newmexicotrue #thegreatsw #historylesson #travelgram #travel #instatravel #traveltheworld #traveler #instatravelling #instatraveller #travelling #travelblogger

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Starting a public and collaborative project means that you do a lot of travel and chatting. So far I've given talks at the Petrified Forest, Coyote Ranger district (photo by Anne Baldwin), and the El Rito Library (photo by Jaye Smith, artwork by @okuu.pin.studio) with at least one more at the Pueblo de Abiquiu Library on July 1st. #GLoH2018 #thetattoedtrowel #thepastispresent .. . . . . . . . . #archaeology #history #archaeologylife #pubarch #anthropology #igarchtravel #archeologists #instatravel #historygram #historymatters #archaeologytravel #americansouthwest #divine_deserts #traveler #igsouthwest #newmexico #newmexicotrue #historyisnow #historybuff #historytravel #thegreatsw #historylesson #travelgram #travel #traveltheworld

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Dig dug dang. Giant adobe collared hearth, flagstone floor, roof fall. #GLoH2018 #thetattooedtrowel #thepastispresent . . . . . . . . . . #archaeologylife #travelgram #pubarch #anthropology #travel #igarchtravel #archeologists #instatravel #historygram #historymatters #traveltheworld #archaeologytravel #americansouthwest #fire #cooking#archaeology #history #divine_deserts #instatravelling #traveler #igsouthwest #instatraveller #travelling #travelblogger #traveling #newmexico #travelblog #history

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This is one of the reasons I think it makes good research ethics and practice to always start with vandalized and looted archaeological sites before destroying sites with shovels and trowels that are "untouched". People definitely should not destroy history in this manner, but if it's happened, reclaim as much information as possible. Don't write these sites off. Students rapidly improve their archaeological skills in a difficult site formation environment like this. It's not just a good first step, it's good training. Most importantly, it allows us to accommodate descendent community concerns about the damage archaeologists do to ancestral remains. Capped adobe collared hearth and flagstone floor #GLoH2018 #thetattooedtrowel #pubarch #archaeology #history #archaeologylife #anthropology #igarchtravel #archeologists #historygram #historymatters #americansouthwest #thepastispresent #archaeologytravel #divine_deserts #instatravelling #igsouthwest #traveler #instatraveller #travelling #travelblogger #traveling #newmexico #travelblog #travelawesome #newmexicotrue #fire #historybuff #household