Amerind to Support CfAS Design Workshop in 2024
Amerind, a CfAS Partner organization, is pleased to announce support of a CfAS Design Workshop to be held in late 2024 at their campus in Dragoon, Arizona (USA). This will
November 21, 2023
CfAS BLOG
Where does Cultural Resource Management fit in higher education?
In the past few days there have been two articles presenting diametrically opposed views of the job prospects for US archaeologists. One article by Miranda Willson, “An Archaeologist Shortage Could
November 8, 2023
Creation Myths and Soils
CfAS Associate, Jeff Homburg, recently published an interesting paper with Sabine Grunwald and Eric Brevik discussing the linkages between creation myths of select First Nations of North America and soils/earth.
November 6, 2023
Call for papers: Novel approaches to past transportation systems
For CfAS associates who work with spatial networks, transportation infrastructure and related topics, the Journal of Archaeological Science is soliciting papers for a special issue entitled “Novel Approaches to Past
November 2, 2023
Call for papers: Archaeology in times of climate emergency
For CfAS associates who are working on threats to cultural heritage from climate change, or on human responses to climate change in the past, the journal World Archaeology is currently
October 31, 2023
CFAS and Amerind Museum Host Design Workshop on Governance, Well-being, and Sustainability
CfAS, in collaboration with the Amerind Museum, recently hosted a five-day “design workshop” focused on rethinking how governance is conceptualized in archaeology, and on how different forms of governance relate
October 27, 2023
Return on investment, yesterday and today
In a recent New York Times Magazine article, David Leonhardt points out that, across the United States, all sorts of trips, from transcontinental flights to the daily commute, take LONGER
October 19, 2023
The Permanent Migration Crisis
In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, Ross Douthat argues that the migration crisis that Europe and the US has experienced over the last decade or so is
October 10, 2023
cyberSW and SKOPE Now Work Together
Two web applications that invaluable for synthetic research in the Southwest US, cyberSW and SKOPE, are now interoperable. cyberSW is an online database that integrates Southwest US archaeological data from
September 29, 2023
Long term projections of human population and its consequences
In a provocative opinion piece in the New York Times, Dean Spears makes the case for worldwide human population to peak at about 10 billion people toward the end of
September 19, 2023