
Yes there's more. Sharman discusses in her book not only her investigations with Tiger Beetles and other native Southwest species, but also her interest in the native people who inhabited the land before us.
Last November she kindly published an excerpt from Diary of a Citizen Scientist on this blog (if you have not read the book I strongly recommend getting a taste for it here). Today she looks back to the past, writing about the time she spends protecting local archaeological sites for the New Mexico Site Steward program and her experiences spending time in those sacred places.
Site Steward Programs: Saving the Past for the Future
On
my first walk through this archaeological site—a flat gravelly field of
mesquite and prickly pear–I soon see signs of looting, dozens of illegal
excavations. Most of the digging is around the collapsed stone walls of
above-surface rooms dating from 1000 to 1150 AD, known as the Classic Mimbres
period, when this village in southwestern New Mexico was flourishing. Artists
then used the white interiors of clay bowls as a kind of canvas, drawing with
thin black lines narrative images and geometric patterns. These artists, who
were likely women, often had a good sense of humor. A bowl might show a
fantastical creature half bighorn, half snake or a wolf wearing a deer mask. Today
these pots sell for hundreds of thousands of dollars, which is why this site
has been so heavily “pot-hunted” in the past.

Since
that first day, I have been to this “village” in the Gila National Forest at
least twice a year for the last three years. The thrill never gets old. The
ground here is littered with the remains of broken pots from a human occupancy
that lasted from 800 to1200 AD and again in 1375 to 1450 AD. I am free to touch
and finger these clay shards as long as I carefully put them back where I found
them. I pick up (and put down) a square of white with thin black lines, part of
a Classic Mimbres bowl—perhaps the image of a crane spearing a fish or a woman
giving birth. I pick up (and put down) a curved piece the size of my palm of corrugated
brown or cooking ware—all those stews, simmering meat and roots and herbs. I
pick up (and put down) a zigzag pattern of red and white, part of an
Escher-like complexity, geometry and the human aesthetic: look at the world in this way.
The
thrill never gets old. The sun is hot on the back of my neck. I breathe in the
smell of earth. My heart beats its pulse of blood. And I feel that connection
to this life, this potter, this woman. Maybe she had children. Certainly she
had worries. A difficult mother-in-law. An abscessed tooth. Danger in the form
of snake and mountain lion. Suddenly my own life in the twenty-first century
seems like a dream--an amazing, amusing, fantastical dream. Smartphones,
restaurants, traffic lights. None of that is more real than this moment among
the mesquite and prickly pear.
Although
I pick up and put down shards for my own pleasure, I am also taking notes and
photographs of the area, looking for signs of new damage caused by humans or
animals or other natural forces. This is the job of the site steward, explained
in the Site Steward Handbook: Find It, Record It, Report It. The program is carefully
set up to avoid confrontation between its volunteers and any potential looter
or criminal. Approaching my designated site, for example, I am instructed to
move quietly and cautiously, muting any cell phone or radio. If I see anyone on
the site, I should watch them from a distance, collect whatever information is
possible such as license number and “subject description,” and then leave. The New
Mexico Site Steward manual warns, “Never place yourself or your vehicle on a
hilltop or on the skyline of an open ridge—this makes you easy to spot. If
there is no obvious way to conduct your observations safely—do not observe!” I
am also reminded that the sun reflecting off binoculars can signal my presence
and that I should dress for weather, carry plenty of water, tell my site manger
when I am going, travel in teams if possible, watch for natural hazards, not
pick up litter (a clue as to who else has been here), gas up my vehicle before
leaving, stay near the vehicle if it breaks down, be careful while driving
through arroyos, and avoid prolonged exposure to sunlight. Sending people out
to remote areas in the Southwest is no joke, and we all take the job seriously.
As well as this
village, I have one more nearby site to visit: a small cliff dwelling high and
hidden on a crumbly slope that requires some climbing. Here a still-solid adobe
wall blocks half an overhanging ledge to create a darkened, cave-like room. The
narrow entrance to the room still has its wooden lintel. Peering into the dark,
hand on the lintel, I feel the frisson of time-travel scented with mice urine.
Elsewhere on the ledge, I check to see if the quartz crystals are still wedged
into porous rock. Because of these crystals, my mentoring archaeologist has
speculated that this dwelling might have been a shaman’s camp, used
ceremonially. But he doesn’t know when. People were doing a lot of that in the
1960s, too.
The way back to my car is through a slick-rock
canyon, the streambed only a few feet wide, pinkish white-gray rock above my
shoulders. Next I pass under a cliff of yellow and orange, weathered and
oxidized, showing a bit of iron before the canyon narrows again. Now the boulders
pile against each other, creating a narrow space, flood debris caught in the
cracks and angles, tangles of root and dirt and stone. The air is rich with oak
leaf and the musk of some animal. The world is pink and white under the sky’s
blue bowl. The silence is broken by my own steps and the gurgly thonk-thonk-thonk and ka-ka-ka of a raven. I feel lucky to be
here, connected to both past and future, in a world filled with so much
treasure.
Sharman Apt Russell lives a mile from the Gila National Forest in Southwestern New Mexico and teaches writing at Western New Mexico University in Silver City and at the low-residency MFA program in Antioch University in Los Angeles. Her recent book Diary of a Citizen Scientist: Chasing Tiger Beetles and Other New Ways of Engaging the World was named by The Guardian as a top ten nature book of 2014 and is available now from the Oregon State University Press. For more information, go to her website at www.SharmanAptRussell.com. She will be speaking about citizen science this April 4 at the Audobon's Woodend Nature Center in Chevy Chase, MD.
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