Resumen de Passport in Time.
This article discusses a program by the United States Department of Agriculture called Passport in Time, which is a volunteer archeological service. Unusual, because those accompanying chief archaeologist for the Tonto National Forest, Scott Wood, and three other U.S. Forest Service archaeologists are not professionals-although some have had archaeological training--but rather volunteers, many of whom spend their vacations or retirement working alongside researchers in the field, surveying sites, making discoveries. An average of 2,500 people a year join projects that include documenting petroglyphs on Kosciusko Island in Alaska, restoring old forest-fire lookouts in Washington State and excavating a sauropod in Colorado. If Roosevelt Lake--a 25-mile-long reservoir formed in 1911 when the Roosevelt Dam was completed--is full, the ruins are submerged. But because of the severe drought the Southwest has been experiencing, parts of the Armer Complex have been exposed, and Germick has been using PIT volunteers to map remnant storage rooms, granaries, burial sites, housing assemblages, trash mounds and agricultural plots--some of them barely discernible circles or ovals or corners of embedded stones.
