We are pleased to announce that Margaret Berrier has had an article published in the Journal of Texas Archeology and History. Congratulations Margaret!!! TAKING ANOTHER LOOK: An “Iconic” Shelter at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site (41EP2) with DStretch and Photo Tracing
The Jornada Research Institute is now accepting article submissions for an anticipated volume of its Jornada Research Publications series. Topics can range from archaeology, ethnohistory, ethnography, history, geology, geoarchaeology, and biology within the broad region of the Tularosa Basin and adjacent areas of Arizona, New Mexico, west Texas and northern Mexico. We anticipate that this volume […]
The Jornada Research Institute has made a donation to The National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition. Its mission is to “lead in the pursuit of understanding and addressing the ongoing trauma created by the US Indian boarding school policy.” This is broader than the US, it is a North American issue. In Canada, several […]
The tragic history of American and Canadian Native American assimilation policies are being played out recently, as news of hundreds of unmarked graves of Canadian First Nation’s children have been recovered. In the US, 10 sets of human remains from Carlisle Indian Boarding school in Pennsylvania were identified and repatriated to their families. Read more […]
Margaret (Marglyph) Berrier, one of the Jornada Research Institute’s rock art researchers has been elected to the American Rock Art Research Associations (ARARA) board of directors. Marglyph has been a member of ARARA since 1988. Previously Marglyph has served on many of the ARARA committees including the education, scholarship, and awards committees. She hopes to […]
Jornada Research Institute (JRI) and Emery Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) are excited to offer training in the use of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) (the use of Drones for collecting data) remote sensing. This training has been approved by the NMSHPO for continuing education credits (CEC) for permitting purposes for those who need additional CEC units. […]
JRI to Offer More Training Classes. JRI will be now offering two additional training courses that have been approved by the New Mexico Historic Preservation Division for one hour-per hour workshop continuing education credit for permit renewals. Starting this fall, we will be offering a one-day training course in the Native American Graves Protection Repatriation […]
I would like to take this opportunity to invite you to join Jornada Research Institute. I hope you have been enjoying the periodic updates that I share with our membership and also our Newsletters. We are about to initiate on-line lectures through Zoom. We will be limited to a maxium of 100 participants. Therefore, we […]
A post from Joan Price Joan Price, JRI Research Associate I have been looking for an archaeologist who went to the classroom of Elisa Martinez Barton, a native El Pasoan and art teacher now retired from Zach White school district in southwest El Paso. Mrs. Barton recalled an “archaeologist in a uniform around the middle 1990’s” who taught her students […]
The Research Associates at JRI are incredibly creative in the ways in which they communicate their work. Margaret Berrier, who excels as a rock art researcher, has designed a wonderful coloring book for all ages for the Three Rivers Petroglyph site in southern New Mexico. The coloring book can be downloaded for free as a […]