2016
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Jun
Saving Camp Naco, Arizona
Built between 1919 and 1923, Camp Naco (also known as Camp Newell) first housed military personnel during the Mexican Border Defense campaign and later served as a base camp for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Troops encamped at the facility included units of the renowned Buffalo Soldiers. The only...
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2016
01
Jun
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument Boundary Expansion
Casa Grande Ruins National Monument in Coolidge, Arizona, is among the state’s best-known cultural landmarks because of its striking “Great House,” one of the largest known ancient structures in the United States. Established as the first archaeological reserve by President Benjamin Harrison i...
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2016
01
Jun
The Great Bend of the Gila
For the very latest on the campaign to permanently protect the public lands of the Great Bend of the Gila, visit respectgreatbend.org!
The Great Bend of the Gila is a fragile stretch of river valley and surrounding lands in the Sonoran Desert of southwestern Arizona. This rural landscape is nestled...
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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
Tucson Origins
Archaeology Southwest has a long-term commitment to the archaeology and history of our home community. In the 1990s, we conducted a series of small excavations to locate buried adobe walls of the Tucson Presidio. Beginning in 2000, we played a role in the Tucson Origins Project funded by Tucson’s ...
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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
San Pedro Petrofacies Project
In the late 1990s, petrologist Beth Miksa began collecting and analyzing more than 240 sand samples from areas along the entire San Pedro River Valley in Arizona and Mexico. Her innovative petrofacies research using this data has played an important part in the Archaeology Southwest’s investigatio...
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2016
01
Jun
Surveying the Southern Tucson Basin
The Hohokam of the southern Arizona desert are best known for their creation and management of extensive canal networks. In recent years we’ve come to realize that other agricultural technologies also played critical roles in sustaining Hohokam populations. My work with Archaeology Southwest inves...
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2016
01
Jun
San Pedro Ethnohistory Project
In 2001, I began my Preservation Fellowship to investigate how an array of stakeholders uses, values, and interprets the archaeological landscape in Arizona’s San Pedro valley. Bridging the disciplines of ethnology, archaeology, and ethnohistory, my research sought to understand the place of histo...
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2016
01
Jun
Safford Valley Project
This research by former Preservation Fellow Anna A. Neuzil examined archaeological data from the Safford and Aravaipa valleys in an effort to understand the social consequences of migrations to southeastern Arizona in the 13th through 15th centuries. For more on her recent publication of this resear...
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2016
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Jun
Rock Art at South Mountain
Aaron’s manuscript titled “Religion on the Rocks: Rock Art, Ritual Practice, and Transformation of the Hohokam World” (forthcoming, University of Utah Press) has won the prestigious Don D. and Catherine S. Fowler Prize. The Fowlers made the award announcement on Friday, October 19, 2012, at th...
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2016
01
Jun
The Edge of Salado
What slows or halts the geographic spread of an ideology—especially an ideology that brings people together?
Preservation Fellow Lewis Borck found out. His research built on previous work done by Archaeology Southwest that focused on detecting Kayenta immigrants and determining their impacts i...
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