Come to Our Archaeology Fair on July 27

Learn what our field school students have been up to and enjoy the sights and sounds of Mimbres, New Mexico.

Tribal Co-Management: What Works Where and How?

Our third Preservation Archaeology Position Paper offers a basic rationale, grounded in legal and moral principles, for pursuing Tribal Co-Management (TCM) in conjunction with Tribes’ political and cultural representatives.

Tribes and Archaeology Southwest Sue USBLM over SunZia Transmission Line Route

On January 17, 2024, the San Carlos Apache Tribe & the Tohono O’odham Nation, joined by Archaeology Southwest & the Center for Biological Diversity, filed suit.

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

Hands On, Phone Off

Mikayla Vasquez-Salgado, University of New Mexico (June 28, 2024)—My time with Archaeology Southwest has already been an eye-opening and informative experience. During our first week of field schoo...

Preservation Archaeology Field School 3.0!

Karen Gust Schollmeyer, Preservation Archaeologist and Director, Preservation Archaeology Field School (June 27, 2024)—Preservation Archaeology Field School is back, and I couldn’t be happier a...