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
14
Aug
National Heritage Areas
Archaeology Southwest participated in two national heritage area campaigns: the Little Colorado River valley and the Santa Cruz River valley.
National Heritage Areas seek to preserve and celebrate America’s defining landscapes and diverse cultural traditions. National Heritage Areas (NHAs) are ...
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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
Ancestral Pueblo
The Ancestral Pueblo (previously called Anasazi) region falls largely along the Colorado Plateau in the northern half of the Southwest. Most archaeologists have ceased using “Anasazi” because many contemporary Pueblo people oppose the term. As the name “Ancestral Pueblo” suggests, people in ...
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2016
30
Sep
Wupatki National Monument
Banner image: Lomaki Pueblo, courtesy of the NPS
Wupatki National Monument provides access to several very well preserved masonry pueblo sites, including Wupatki, Wukoki, Citadel, Nalakihu, Box Canyon, and Lomaki Pueblos. Wupatki Pueblo features several impressive examples of Ancestral Pueblo arc...
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2016
09
Sep
Homolovi State Park
Banner image: Homol'ovi Visitor Center. By John Phelan, via Wikimedia Commons
Homol’ovi is a Hopi word for “place of the low hills.” This state park was founded to preserve a series of Ancestral Hopi sites located along the Little Colorado River. Of these villages, Homol’ovi I and Homol...
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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
Travel Management on Our National Forests
If you’ve ever visited one of our National Forests, part of your experience within its boundaries involved travel on a road open to motorized vehicles. Over the past 30 years, as the popularity and availability of four-wheel-drive and off-highway vehicles has increased, motorized uses of our publi...
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2016
01
Jun
Protecting Places on the Land
Long-term protection of archaeological sites is an essential component of Preservation Archaeology.
Here in the American Southwest, a great number of important archaeological sites occur on private land. Nineteenth-century homesteaders settled in areas with readily available water and arable land...
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2016
01
Jun
The Heritage Southwest Database
The Heritage Southwest (HSW) database is a digital geodatabase containing information on more than 10,000 precontact (prehistoric) and historic archaeological sites in the U.S. Southwest and northern Mexico. The large HSW database is divided into a number of smaller sub-databases, each developed for...
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2016
01
Jun
Social Networks in the Late Precontact Southwest
Click here (opens as a PDF) to read the latest article on the project in the professional journal American Antiquity (Vol. 80, No. 1, 2015).
In the age of Facebook and Twitter, “social network” is a phrase heard or read almost daily—but social networks are a mainstay of the human experience...
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