2024
04
Feb
Working with Tribes to Re-Route SunZia
The case for protecting this landscape is clear: The San Pedro—Arizona’s last free-flowing river—and its valley embody the unique and timely story of social and ecological sustainability across more than 12,000 years of cultural and environmental change.
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2017
01
Sep
cyberSW
Big Data for Big Questions
Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that a new joint initiative, cyberSW, has received a $1.7 million award through the National Science Foundation’s RIDIR program (Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sci...
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2017
17
Aug
Caring for Ancient Places: Stabilizing Casa Malpais
Located at the edge of a shield volcano overlooking the modern town of Springerville, Arizona, the ancient village of Casa Malpais sits on a terrace made of a type of volcanic basalt called Malpais. People built the village over a number of volcanic fissures that provided easily accessible “baseme...
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2017
10
Apr
Standing with Bears Ears
Banner image by R. E. Burrillo
Archaeology Southwest joins the Bears Ears Inter-Tribal Coalition and the Friends of Cedar Mesa as we #StandWithBearsEars.
Why?
The Bears Ears region is not only a singular natural landscape, but also a cultural one. Over millennia, people transformed the rugg...
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2016
01
Jun
Coordinated Resource Management Planning for Arizona's Perry Mesa
Archaeology Southwest joins the Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department, and other stakeholders in identifying long-term needs and management goals for Arizona’s Perry Mesa.
In 2011, Arizona’s Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) purchased Hor...
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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
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
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
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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