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Read Our Annual Report for 2023

Learn more about what your support made possible in an action-packed year!

Rep. Grijalva Introduces Bill to Designate Arizona’s Great Bend of the Gila as a National Monument

The Great Bend of the Gila is a globally significant landscape — invaluable, unique, and fragile.

Reaching out to Indigenous Youth

We had three incredible opportunities to spend quality time with Indigenous young people this summer. Skylar Begay and other staff share their reflections.

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

Better For It: Archaeology Conceived in Collaboration with Community

This issue is a companion to our 2022–2023 season of Archaeology Café (videos on our YouTube channel). Contributors explore the challenges, scope, and rewards of collaborative archaeology. They share a vision of how collaboration will transform archaeology and carry communities’ stories into 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

Preserving the Ray Robinson Collection: Avocational Efforts in Preservation and Research

Jaye Smith, Joyce Clarke, Mary Graham, Phillip Hunger, Harlow Sires, and Valerie Freireich-Kaplan, Robinson Project Researchers Jeffery J. Clark, Vice President for Research, Archaeology Southwest P...

Return to Cove, Arizona

Paul F. Reed, New Mexico State Director and Preservation Archaeologist with Caitlynn Mayhew (Diné), cyberSW Native American Fellow Ben Pelletier, Preservation Archaeologist (November 26, 2024)—...