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Memphis Mallory interned at Shumla in Spring 2025, working on curating and digitizing legacy archives that support Shumla’s preservation mission. The post Shumla Intern Blog: Memphis Mallory appeared first on Shumla .
As my tour guiding partner likes to say, “Kelly, you are an enthusiastic volunteer.” When Shumla preservation archaeologist Diana Radillo Rolón asked me to join them for a rock art documentation excursion I immediately said “Yes!” The post Notes from an Enthusiastic Volunteer appeared first on Shumla .
Robert Stein volunteered for Shumla during his Fall semester of 2023. During his time working with Shumla, he has worked on digitizing physical collections of Pecos River Style rock art documentation donated to Shumla. The post Shumla Volunteer Blog: Robert Stein appeared first on Shumla .
The contrast between field work and lab work is often striking, and our experience in Mexico is no exception. We left the spontaneous and unpredictable fieldwork conducted in the wide-open spaces of the sierras to begin our deliberate and meticulous lab work, stuck in front of a computer for hours on end. The post Processing and Organizing the Data appeared first on Shumla .
In 2016, Carolyn Boyd and Kim Cox suggested that Pecos River style (PRS) murals are visual narratives containing evidence of el nucleo duro (the hard nucleus), a widespread Archaic core of beliefs persisting across time and across cultural, linguistic, and geographic boundaries. If this is true, then Indigenous people living today should be able to relate PRS imagery to their cosmology. In 2021,…
Chloe Bluemel started volunteering at Shumla on July 24, 2023. During my time, she has analyzed the anthropomorphs depicted on the walls of Jaguar Shelter, written extensive descriptions, and entered this information into the Shumla database. The post Shumla Volunteer Blog: Chloe Bluemel appeared first on Shumla .
Former Shumla Intern, Madeline Okkonen, recalls her experience as an intern in San Marcos in the spring of 2023. She retells her time on an archive research and mapping project as well as fieldwork training with the crew to learn about the Shumla Method of Rock Art Documentation. The post Shumla Intern Blog: Madeline Okkonen appeared first on Shumla .
Part three of Carolyn Boyd and Phil Dering's Mexico experience, as part of Shumla's Hearthstone Project, describes their time at the rancho on the mesa at the edge of San Andrés and our trip out of the sierras. The post Ethnographic Fieldwork in San Andrés Cohamiata, Mexico (Part Three) appeared first on Shumla .
Part two of Carolyn Boyd and Phil Dering's Mexico experience, as part of Shumla's Hearthstone Project, gives an account of our experience at a rancho the barrancas. The post Ethnographic Fieldwork in San Andrés Cohamiata, Mexico (Part Two) appeared first on Shumla .
Part one of Carolyn Boyd and Phil Dering's Mexico experience, as part of Shumla's Hearthstone Project, provides background to our project and describes the first few days in Mexico and in San Andrés Cohamiata. The post Ethnographic Fieldwork in San Andrés Cohamiata, Mexico (Part One) appeared first on Shumla .
