Heritage Protection and Emergency Management

Full committee hearing to consider the nomination of the Honorable Debra Haaland to be the Secretary of the U.S. Department of the Interior.

The latest HERITAGE at RISK report is out! This 2016-2019 edition contains contributions from 23 countries. Learn how monuments, sites & cultural landscap...es are facing risks caused by natural disasters and destructive human activities FOR PUBLIC AWARENESS and FUTURE ACTION https://buff.ly/3pKE64E

Don't forget to REGISTER for this year's 73rd AAFS Annual Scientific Meeting. Learn More: https://aafs2021.vfairs.com/ The 2021 virtual meeting means that PRE-R...EGISTRATION matters more than ever. Pre-register by January 18th and earn 500 points to our virtual platform leaderboard. Being atop the leaderboard gives you a chance to win multiple prizes, including a 6-night stay at the Sheraton Grand Seattle for next year's, 2022 Annual Scientific Meeting. See more

In celebration of Anthropology Day and to acknowledge the research conducted by Cogstone scholars, we invite you to participate in a discussion with Dr. John Gu...st and Dr. Jennifer Mathews regarding the role sugar cane and rum played in the history of the Yucatan Peninsula on February 18, 2021 at 5 pm PST. Dr. Gust is a principal investigator at Cogstone Resource Management, Inc. in Orange, California. Sugarcane and Rum is the culmination of research started in 2009 and draws on research that began in 2001. Dr. Mathews is a professor of anthropology at Trinity University in San Antonio and has conducted research studying the ancient, historic, and contemporary Maya in the Yucatán Peninsula of Mexico since 1993. Their research tracks the manufacture of sugar and rum, products that fueled the henequen trade. Growing henequen, the green gold that made Yucatán briefly the richest region in Mexico, was impossible without a cheap and stable workforce. Loans for weddings where guests expected generous supplies of rum was but one way planters entrapped Maya into inter-generational debt and servitude on factory farms known as haciendas. Even as the henequen they produced was sent around the world these workers needed permission to leave the hacienda to which they were bound. Please join us for this exciting program! Send RSVPs to [email protected] for WebEx info. Sugarcane and Rum is available to purchase here: https://uapress.arizona.edu/book/sugarcane-and-rum