2016
30
Sep
Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument
Banner image: Gila Cliff Dwellings, by Ely Rareshide
A remote and less-visited national monument, the Gila Cliff Dwellings sit at the headwaters of the Gila River. Though people used the natural features for shelter over millennia, people built structures and lived in them from A.D. 1280 through ...
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2016
30
Sep
Pecos National Historical Park
Pecos is a very large Ancestral Pueblo and Spanish colonial mission site in a strategic location at the intersection of the Rocky Mountains and Great Plains. Commanding a 360-degree view of the Pecos River valley, it sits at one of the major crossroads in history, and is an excellent place to learn ...
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2016
01
Jun
Hands-On Archaeology
Archaeology Southwest’s new Hands-On Archaeology program connects people of today with daily life in the distant past.
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2016
01
Jun
Travel Management on Our National Forests
If you’ve ever visited one of our National Forests, part of your experience within its boundaries involved travel on a road open to motorized vehicles. Over the past 30 years, as the popularity and availability of four-wheel-drive and off-highway vehicles has increased, motorized uses of our publi...
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2016
01
Jun
Protecting Places on the Land
Long-term protection of archaeological sites is an essential component of Preservation Archaeology.
Here in the American Southwest, a great number of important archaeological sites occur on private land. Nineteenth-century homesteaders settled in areas with readily available water and arable land...
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2016
01
Jun
Collections Management at Salmon Pueblo
20 years of collections in disarray
One goal of the partnership between Archaeology Southwest and Salmon Ruins Museum involved long-term curation and preservation of the enormous Salmon artifact, sample, and archival-photographic collection. As was the case with many large projects in the...
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2016
01
Jun
Protecting the Greater Chaco Landscape: Threats from Oil and Gas
Banner image courtesy of EcoFlight
Archaeology Southwest is part of the Coalition to Protect Greater Chaco, a collaborative effort to find a balanced solution for protecting the Greater Chaco Landscape. Along with Archaeology Southwest, partners include the All Pueblo Council of Governors, the ...
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2016
01
Jun
The Heritage Southwest Database
The Heritage Southwest (HSW) database is a digital geodatabase containing information on more than 10,000 precontact (prehistoric) and historic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico. The large HSW database is divided into a number of smaller sub-databases, each developed for...
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2016
01
Jun
Las Ventanas
The Las Ventanas (or Candelaria) great house lies about 112 km south of the Chacoan center at Pueblo Bonito, within the boundaries of the El Malpais National Monument. The great house comprises a two-story structure with perhaps 80 total rooms that was built during the Chacoan era from A.D. 1050–1...
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2016
01
Jun
In Search of the Coronado Trail
Launched in August 2004, the Coronado Project was an outreach and public education project that sought to determine the route of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado’s infamous expedition of 1540 from northern Mexico to the Pueblo of Zuni. Archaeology Southwest (then the Center for Desert Archaeology) a...
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2016
01
Jun
Zuni Origins
When the Coronado Expedition entered the Southwest in 1540, they were pursuing reports of lost cities of gold. They ended up at the seven major pueblos that we now know as Zuni. Not quite cities, and totally lacking in gold, these settlements were a source of great disappointment to the Spaniards. T...
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2016
01
Jun
Salmon Pueblo and the Middle San Juan River Valley
From 2001 to 2014, Archaeology Southwest’s Preservation Archaeologist Paul Reed was based at Salmon Pueblo. His long-term collaborative research project examines the reach of the cultures centered at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde into the Middle San Juan Basin. It also seeks to understand what commu...
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