The Places That Hold Our Nation's Stories Are Not for Sale

Interior Secretary Burgum’s order not only ignores places, but also the history and wisdom embedded in them. Image: Ironwood Forest National Monument, Bob Wick, USBLM

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What You Need to Know about NSF Grants

Because our tax dollars support these grants, it’s natural to wonder: Who decides who gets them?
The short answer is, scientists all over the country, mostly on a volunteer basis.

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Emerging Attacks on Our Public Lands

Dramatic and harmful changes in Department of Interior management policies are beginning to emerge. Paul Reed discusses some of the most concerning provisions of a recent secretarial order.

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cyberSW Receives $350K Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Funding will expand the scope, significance, and reach of this digital research and education platform through collaboration with Tribal experts.

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Wright Receives Grant Award from Wenner-Gren Foundation

Funding will support a 3-day workshop for scholars and Indigenous knowledge holders and result in a public-facing volume on the rock imagery of the Sonoran Desert.

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Invite Us to Speak

We’d be pleased to share our work and Archaeology Southwest’s mission with you. Check out our new Speakers Bureau page!

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Welcome

Archaeology Southwest practices Preservation Archaeology, a holistic, collaborative, and conservation-based approach to exploring and protecting heritage places while honoring their diverse values. We compile archaeological information, make it accessible and understandable, share it with the public and decision-makers, advocate for landscape-scale protection, and steward heritage properties and conservation easements. We are committed to real and ongoing collaboration with Indigenous communities. Our headquarters are located on the Homelands of the Tohono O’odham Nation and the lands of the Pascua Yaqui Tribe.

Current Magazine

Continuity and Connections: The Living Landscapes of Mesa Verde

Taw’toy’kya. Kash’katrati. Hwâalâ P’ê W ækêewâ. Tewayogeh. Gad Deelzhahi. Mesa Verde has many names and holds many stories. This edition of Archaeology Southwest Magazine gathers many strands to tell the story of Mesa Verde today and for the future.

 

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A New Kind of Archaeology

Learn more about our work to ensure that people’s histories in the land endure well into the future.

From Our Blog

What You Need to Know about NSF Grants

(February 27, 2025)—Grants have been in the news lately, including grants from the National Science Foundation (NSF). Adults reading this in the US support NSF programs every year when we pay federa...

Emerging Attacks on Our Public Lands

Paul F. Reed, New Mexico Director and Preservation Archaeologist  (February 11, 2025)—Dramatic and harmful changes in Department of Interior management policies are beginning to emerge from the ne...