2024
04
Feb
Working with Tribes to Re-Route SunZia
The case for protecting this landscape is clear: The San Pedro—Arizona’s last free-flowing river—and its valley embody the unique and timely story of social and ecological sustainability across more than 12,000 years of cultural and environmental change.
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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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2020
04
Jun
Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area
Archaeology Southwest, in partnership with the Santa Cruz Valley Heritage Alliance, is pleased to support the newly designated Santa Cruz Valley National Heritage Area. This congressional designation honors, preserves, and celebrates the region’s diverse natural resources and cultural contribution...
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2019
03
Sep
Cocoraque Butte
Banner image courtesy of the BLM, via Flickr
The Cocoraque Butte Archaeological District, 25 miles northwest of Tucson, Arizona in the Ironwood Forest National Monument, was once home to the Hohokam centuries ago. See evidence of their lives in the hundreds of well-preserved petroglyphs at this s...
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2019
14
Mar
Mission Garden
Mission Garden is a living agricultural museum that interprets 4,000 years of Tucson's history through heritage fruit-trees, traditional local heirloom crops, and edible native plants. It is a nonprofit, volunteer-run educational organization. It is an important part of Tucson's UNESCO City of Gast...
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2017
01
Sep
Lower Gila River Ethnographic and Archaeological Project
Archaeology Southwest is pleased to announce that a team of affiliated researchers has earned a prestigious Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). The $175,000 grant will help fund the Lower Gila River Ethnographic and Archaeological Project, an interdisci...
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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
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
01
Jun
Presidio San Agustín del Tucson
Presidio San Agustín Museum is a re-creation of the northeast bastion of the Tucson Presidio, which was founded by Spanish colonial troops in 1775 and built in 1776. The re-creation is based on archaeological evidence and historical documents.
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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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