Master List of Investigations | Archaeology Southwest

What We Do: Investigations

Master List of Investigations

	Coronado’s Trail Searching for evidence of the expedition’s route through public outreach
	Davis Ranch Reporting mid-1950s excavations at this important site in the lower San Pedro valley
	Early Agriculture Finding new evidence that maize agriculture arrived in the southern Southwest more than 4,000 years ago
	Migration and Change I: Initial Research in the San Pedro Valley Learning more about this special place through survey and limited archaeological testing
	Migration and Change II: Coalescent Communities Following fourteenth-century migrants from northeastern Arizona into the southern Southwest
	Migration and Change III: Following the Kayenta and Salado Following the Kayenta and Salado up the Gila River
	Migration and Change IV: Edge of Salado Thinking about Salado, from the outside looking in
	Mule Creek and the Upper Gila Region Teaching students, working with the community, protecting sites, learning more—preservation archaeology!
	Mule Creek Obsidian Investigating patterns of social interaction immediately before and during the time of Salado florescence
	Rock Art of Phoenix’s South Mountains Considering what rock art reveals about the Hohokam world and ritual practices
	Safford Valley Project Identifying the social consequences of prehistoric migration to southeastern Arizona
	Salmon Pueblo and the Middle San Juan River Valley Examining the reach of the cultures centered at Chaco Canyon and Mesa Verde into the Middle San Juan Basin
	San Pedro Ethnohistory Project Exploring the living cultural landscape of Arizona’s San Pedro valley
	San Pedro Petrofacies Project Collecting and analyzing more than 240 sand samples from the San Pedro River valley
	San Pedro Valley Sobaipuri Documenting and preserving Sobaipuri Pima sites in the San Pedro River valley
	Southern Tucson Basin Survey Documenting Hohokam use of rock clusters for growing agave and other plants
	Southwest Social Networks Project Using innovative analytical techniques to explore social interactions during a time of great change
	Tucson Origins Tracing the history of our home community over thousands of years
	Zuni Origins Accounting for how Zuni retained its identity as a discrete language

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