2017
18
May
Mogollon
People who lived in the Mogollon (muggy-own) region in the distant past had much in common with people living in the Ancestral Pueblo region, and were probably also among the ancestors of modern Pueblo people and even other contemporary communities in the southern Southwest and Mexico.
The ea...
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2017
18
May
Los Morteros
Los Morteros is the site of a large Native American village inhabited between about 850 and 1300 CE. The site stretches north and south along the Santa Cruz River and extends west of the river past the current right-of-way of Silverbell Road.
For centuries, Los Morteros was a large village and th...
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2017
06
Apr
Arizona State Museum
Banner image by Jon 'ShakataGaNai' Davis, via Wikimedia
Arizona State Museum is the oldest and largest anthrpopological museum of the Southwest. Its collections and exhibitions span Native American cultures of the American Southwest and northwest Mexico. Highlights include viewable storage vaults...
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2017
03
Apr
Agua Caliente Ranch
Banner image by Tdw1203, via Wikimedia Commons
The ranch buildings are part of a Pima County park.
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2017
03
Apr
Amerind Museum
The Amerind Museum features permanent and changing exhibitions about Native American cultures, history, and archaeology.
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2016
19
Sep
Tumacácori National Historical Park
Banner image courtesy of the NPS
Established in 1691, San Jose de Tumacácori is one of the oldest Spanish missions in Arizona. The majority of the church, with the exception of the roof and the floor, is original. Visitors can experience the church and other structures that were part of a worki...
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2016
09
Sep
Romero Ruin (Catalina State Park)
Nestled in the shadows of the Santa Catalina Mountains in a relatively undisturbed stretch of the Sonoran Desert, the Romero Ruin trail in Catalina State Park guides visitors on a short (3/4 mile) walk through several centuries of human history. From the trail, you can see evidence of an ancient Hoh...
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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
Snaketown Artistic Heritage Project
Banner image: View of the Hohokam Pima National Monument, by BruceandLetty, courtesy of Wikimedia Commons
The Snaketown Artistic Heritage Project preserved information. Archaeology Southwest (formerly the Center for Desert Archaeology) worked with the Arizona State Museum to scientifically docume...
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2016
01
Jun
Honey Bee Village: Community-Based Interpretive Planning
The goal of the Honey Bee Village project was to engage the public in developing a multicultural interpretive plan for the Honey Bee Village archaeological preserve. This Hohokam village site is now in the center of the rapidly-growing town of Oro Valley, Arizona. The land containing most of this ar...
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