During National Park Week, all 397 of our national parks offer free admission! If you can’t go in April, entrance fees are waived June 9 for Get Outdoors Day.

http://www.nps.gov/npweek/

With 26 teams competing for the Google Lunar X Prize to become the first private organization to put a spacecraft on the moon, the Apollo 11 and Apollo 17 sites may be the most distant cultural resources destined for historic preservation.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/10/science/space/a-push-for-historic-preservation-on-the-moon.html?_r=1&ref=science

Research by ASU archaeologist Michael Barton indicates that the Neanderthals’ unique ability to adapt to climate change may have actually contributed to their disappearance.

http://news.discovery.com/history/neanderthals-adapt-climate-change-111118.html?ewrd=1

The recipient of the 2011-2012 Lister Fellowship is using mass spectrometry to research what turquoise found at archaeological sites in Mesoamerican and the American Southwest reveals about exchange networks and social interactions.

. . . → Read More: U of A Geosciences Scholar Studies Prehistoric Turquoise Trading Networks