Setting Protection Priorities
In order to protect places on the land, we must first decide what should be protected. The Southwest is rich with precious places that speak to 12,000 years of human history.
Archaeology Southwest partners with local communities, agencies, tribal entities, and other stakeholders to develop a comprehensive vision for how to identify, describe, evaluate, locate, and protect the places of our past. We do this by systematically organizing information about the known prehistoric and rural historic record of the Southwest.
Through the application of objective criteria and expert knowledge, Archaeology Southwest has helped to identify the highest-priority places to protect, as well as strategies to protect them. The result is something special: a vision for how to successfully protect our cultural heritage on the land for future generations.
