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Keep Calm and Love Plasma Oxidation

Keep Calm and Love Plasma Oxidation

Hey, Shumla family! Rudy Banny here. I had the pleasure of interning with the Shumla team from January to March of 2020, training with Dr. Karen Steelman in Shumla’s Archaeological Chemistry Laboratory. During this time, I had the incredible opportunity to engage with...

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Rock Art Exhibit for Public Archaeology Week

Rock Art Exhibit for Public Archaeology Week

Welcome Shumla blog readers. A special welcome to those joining us for the SAA online Public Archaeology Week!   If this is your first time to learn about Shumla, we are a non-profit archaeological center conducting rigorous rock art documentation along the United...

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Summer in the Lower Pecos: A Tale of Three Interns

Summer in the Lower Pecos: A Tale of Three Interns

By Megan Blackburn, Kasia Cross, and Dee Morris
Welcome back to the Shumla blog! We’re the 2019 Shumla Summer Interns: Megan Blackburn, Deianira Morris, and Kasia Cross. We have organized our learning experience as interns at Shumla into four intertwined categories …

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10 Days in Fate Bell Shelter

10 Days in Fate Bell Shelter

By Jerod Roberts and Vicky Roberts
We knew from the beginning of The Alexandria Project that documenting Fate Bell Shelter was going to be a monumental task. A typical rock art site may take us only a few hours to complete our baseline level of documentation, …

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