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.

Archaeology Southwest Statement on New York Times Guest Essay by Robinson Meyer

In our capacity as a plaintiff in this ongoing litigation—the substance of which is mischaracterized by Meyer in the opinion piece—we assert the following...

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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

Revitalizing and Reclaiming Indigenous Languages: My Experiences at CoLang 2024

Caitlynn Mayhew, Diné, cyberSW Native American Fellow (October 7, 2024)—This past summer, from June 3 to 28, I had the pleasure of attending CoLang. Formally known as the Institute on Collabor...

For the Love of Land and the Sacredness of Landscapes

Aaron Wright’s edited volume Sacred Southwestern Landscapes: Archaeologies of Religious Ecology is now available from the University of Utah Press Aaron Wright, Preservation Anthropologist (S...