Desert Archaeology 🔬

Award-winning cultural resource management in the Southwest since 1982.

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Hi new followers! To find out about the actual science we do around here, have a peek at https://t.co/ZugPlb9qVB (hit up the Field Journal for bite-sized stories on our research).

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Come work with us! We need a Projects Manager and are way easier to herd than cats, we promise. https://t.co/i3RffbBiMl

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Want to wrangle some of the best in the business? Our lifelong Projects Manager , Trish Castalia, is retiring. We’re going to dry our tears and then find someone to carry the work forward. See the listing at https://t.co/Yi1e09d0XG

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Trick question! You’re planning to come to TAHH at the Borderlands Brewing downtown patio, 5-7pm, and you’re bringing a friend

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Realizing some of you still haven’t ever been to Tucson Archaeology Happy Hour

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

First, what have you even been doing with your life, and second, do you have plans for October 18

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Optimist: the cup is half full

Pessimist: the cup is half empty

Lithic analyst: the cup appears to be made of clay. Now who wants to talk about ✨debitage✨? Did you ever think about each flake being a discrete moment in time that [giant cane yoinks the intern off the stage]

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Nobody will remember
- Your salary
- How "busy you were"
- How many hours you worked

People will remember
-Notch shape is key to San Pedro points and telling if they’re from the San Pedro phase or the Cienega pha [vaudeville cane yoinks the social media intern off the stage]

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

It may be hot, but at least Homer and Caleb are surveying in a part of Arizona that is not currently on fire. Here is Caleb posing in front of a Joshua Tree while surveying north of Wickenburg. Fun fact: they are not actually trees, but a type of yucca!

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Are we doing this right

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

This is why many* archaeologists were big Tonka fans as kids. https://t.co/xL2jsvYglz

*most

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

@Arch_SW Thanks ASW! ✊

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

For some reason, FB has decided our posts directing followers to the award-winning desert dot com Field Journal are spam, and keep 86ing them. How very dare they. Fight back by going to https://t.co/ELTZpZlQzG and learning about pottery seasonality anyway. Ha, take that.

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Poltergeist: not real
Building houses on top of an abandoned cemetery: very real in Tucson

Hit the link to listen to Homer Thiel talk about finding forgotten graves in the Dunbar Spring neighborhood
https://t.co/kryZxq3UjT

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Nothing gets a party started like a vigorous Airlie House discussion

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Almost time to do the thing! If you’re within a 100-mile radius of Tucson, there’s no reason not to come to the finest happy hour in the field.

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

TFW it’s only May 3 and Tucson Archaeology Happy Hour isn’t until May 17 and how can the universe be so cruel

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Also yes all those characters are coming out of the paleoethnobotanist’s allowance

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Our world headquarters are in the desert, but we work in any biome you want to toss us into. We recently provided collections processing support and paleoethnobotanical analysis for this cool project in the Tularosa Basin.

https://t.co/J1FMv8qCfL

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

🚨PERFECT WEATHER ALERT🚨

What are you doing after work today? You’re meeting us for the return of Tucson Archaeology Happy Hour, that’s what. Borderlands downtown, 5-7 let’s gooooooooo

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

3/22, 5-7p, Borderlands Brewing, 119 E. Toole, Tucson

[Desert Archaeology 🔬 @desert_arch]

Spending the weekend getting our fits together for Tucson Archaeology Happy Hour