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In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity

In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity. February 2025. The tower at Tse Yaa Kin, on a platinum-palladium print, and shot on Wayne Martin Belger's homemade camera. Belger arranged the composition to match a photo taken by Simeon Schwemberger at the site in 1905. (When you compare the two photos, you can see some repairs that a Smithsonian team made more than a century ago.)

In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity

In the Arizona desert, researchers are uncovering extraordinary details about the peoples who have inhabited this land since antiquity. February 2025. To arrange this elevated perspective onto a window at Tse Yaa Kin, Belger hauled 8-foot-long wooden planks, plus a ladder, up the sheer cliff to the sacred site. This is on a platinum-palladium print and shot on Wayne Martin Belger's homemade camera.