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Contact : Carolyn Gonzales 277-5920
cgonzal@unm.edu

August 24, 2007

Volunteers Needed for ‘Set in Stone’ Petroglyph Workshop

“Set in Stone: The Binational Workshop on Petroglyph Management in the United States and Mexico” will be held Wednesday, Sept.  19 - Friday, Sept. 22 at the University of New Mexico. Volunteers are needed!

The Binational Workshop will bring together scholars, partners and the general public in a forum to exchange ideas about cultural resources management issues regarding the protection and preservation of petroglyphs in the Greater Southwest and Northern Mexico.

  The workshop will serve to address topics related to future exchanges of ideas about resource management, conservation and ethnographic techniques, as well as protection, interpretation and educational approaches.

  Workshop papers will share cultural resource management information across the U.S.-Mexico border. In addition to providing opportunities for communication with traditional communities and scholars in both the U.S. and Mexico, the workshop will establish and/or reassert relationships with other research and educational entities.

Workshop organizers includes the National Park Service’s Petroglyph National Monument, which protects, preserves and interprets one of the largest concentrations of petroglyphs in the world, the University of New Mexico and the Instituto Nacional de Antropologí­a e Historia (INAH).

Individuals who are interested in volunteering can register on the conference website at www.nps.gov/archive/petr/volunteer.

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