S’edav Va’aki Museum has announced the appointment of Christopher W. Schwartz as Phoenix’s city archaeologist.
Schwartz earned three degrees at Arizona State University in anthropology with a specialization in archaeology, according to a release announcing his appointment. He has conducted archaeological work in Arizona and New Mexico, as well as in the Mexican states of Sonora, Chihuahua, Zacatecas and México.
Schwartz’s academic research examines the social effect of “long-distance exchange and long-term human-animal relationships in pre-Hispanic North America,” the release stated. His work has been funded by various institutions, including the National Science Foundation, National Endowment for the Humanities and the Society for American Archaeology. …