News & Updates

Chase Peterson Memoir Published, Launch Party and Interviews Scheduled

The Guardian Poplar: A Memoir of Deep Roots, Journey, and Rediscovery by Chase Nebeker Peterson is now available. A launch party will be held at the Gould Auditorium of the J. Willard Marriott Library on Wednesday, May 9, from 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Several local media outlets will be featuring interviews with Chase. Please see the schedule below and tune in to hear about this compelling and engaging memoir.

May 7
11 a.m. Radio West on KUER 90.1 FM
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May 10
9:05 a.m. Community Voices on KPCW 91.9 FM
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May 14
9:00 – 9:40 a.m. City Views on KCPW on 88.3 FM and 105.3 FM
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May 20
5:30 p.m. Utah Conversations with Ted Capener on KUED Channel 7

May 30
6:30 p.m.
Book discussion and signing at Weller Book Works
Trolley Square, SLC

 Island of Fogs wins SAA Book Award

The University of Utah Press is pleased to announce that Matthew R. Des Lauriers received the 2012 Society for American Aracheology book award in the scholarly category for Island of Fogs: Archaeological and Ethnohistorical Investigations of Isla Cedros, Baja California. The award was presented at the 77th Annual SAA Meeting that was held April 18-22, 2012 in Memphis, TN.

Island of Fogs is an important study of maritime adaptations along the West Coast of North America over about 12,000 years, which draws on sophisticated theoretical arguments, the author's own research, and a wide range of archaeological data and ethnohistorical sources from elsewhere along the coast. This is a very important monograph that will exercise a profound influence both on California and Baja arachaeology, and also on the study of maritime hunter-gatherers generally.