2023
28
Jul
Desert Trails Survey across the Great Bend of the Gila
(August 1, 2023)—The Great Bend of the Gila marks an important and unique segment of the river corridor that bridges the ancestral homelands of the O’odham and Piipaash. Movement was an essential dimension to ancestral lifeways along this river, yet the archaeology and history of Indigenous trai...
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2021
08
Jul
Virtual Southwest
Archaeology Southwest created the Virtual Southwest initiative to explore how emerging technologies in digital media could be utilized to share the results of archaeological research with an interested public. Technologies such as interactive exhibits, 3D animation, and virtual reality were utilized...
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2017
01
Sep
cyberSW
Big Data for Big Questions
Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that a new joint initiative, cyberSW, has received a $1.7 million award through the National Science Foundation’s RIDIR program (Resource Implementations for Data Intensive Research in the Social Behavioral and Economic Sci...
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2017
17
Aug
Caring for Ancient Places: Stabilizing Casa Malpais
Located at the edge of a shield volcano overlooking the modern town of Springerville, Arizona, the ancient village of Casa Malpais sits on a terrace made of a type of volcanic basalt called Malpais. People built the village over a number of volcanic fissures that provided easily accessible “baseme...
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2017
18
Jul
Fluid Identities
Land, Water, and Religion during the Gila River Millennium (A.D. 450–1450)
In 2017, Archaeology Southwest is beginning a new five-year investigation, which builds on the methods and themes of our Salado Impact investigation, and expands the temporal and geographic focus substantially.
Social...
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2017
18
May
Sinagua
Banner image by Tomas Castelazo, via Wikimedia Commons
Populations in the Sinagua (sin-OW-wah) area lived in large pithouse and pueblo communities. They practiced flexible hunting, gathering, and farming strategies specific to some of the challenging landscapes they inhabited, including the San F...
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2017
18
May
Pataya
Pataya (pah-tah-yáh) is a word of the Pai branch (Hualapai, Havasupai, Yavapai, and Paipai) of the Yuman-Cochimí language family that translates loosely as “old people.”
As used by archaeologists, Pataya refers to a specific material culture spread throughout western Arizona, southern Calif...
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2017
18
May
Hohokam
Banner image by Robert B. Ciaccio
People who resided in the Hohokam (ho-ho-kahm) region were among the ancestors of contemporary southern desert populations, such as the O'odham, as well as Pueblo populations and perhaps other populations in northern Mexico.
Early Hohokam settlements consi...
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2017
18
May
Mogollon
People who lived in the Mogollon (muggy-own) region in the distant past had much in common with people living in the Ancestral Pueblo region, and were probably also among the ancestors of modern Pueblo people and even other contemporary communities in the southern Southwest and Mexico.
The ea...
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2017
06
Apr
Agua Fria National Monument
Banner image courtesy of the Bureau of Land Management, via Flickr
From the website of Agua Fria National Monument:
"The Agua Fria National Monument contains more than 400 archaeological sites, spanning some 2,000 years of human history.
"Many of the national monument’s archaeological sit...
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2016
01
Jun
Hands-On Archaeology
Archaeology Southwest’s new Hands-On Archaeology program connects people of today with daily life in the distant past.
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2016
01
Jun
Coordinated Resource Management Planning for Arizona's Perry Mesa
Archaeology Southwest joins the Bureau of Land Management, United States Forest Service, Arizona Game and Fish Department, and other stakeholders in identifying long-term needs and management goals for Arizona’s Perry Mesa.
In 2011, Arizona’s Game and Fish Department (AZGFD) purchased Hor...
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