Archaeology Southwest Prepares to Fight Unlawful Grant Termination

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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

Continuity and Connections: The Living Landscapes of Mesa Verde

Taw’toy’kya. Kash’katrati. Hwâalâ P’ê W ækêewâ. Tewayogeh. Gad Deelzhahi. Mesa Verde has many names and holds many stories. This edition of Archaeology Southwest Magazine gathers many strands to tell the story of Mesa Verde today and for 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

Archaeology Southwest at SAA 2025: Where to Find Us

Sara Anderson, Director of Outreach Banner image: R0uge, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons (April 23, 2025)—As we head to the Society for American Archaeology’s annual meeting in Denver th...

Protecting Ancestral Lands: Nanbé Owingeh Installs Fence to Safeguard an Ancestral Pueblo

Sean O’Meara and Michael Spears, Principal Investigators at MOS Research, LLC (May 1, 2025)—Atop a windswept mesa nestled in the foothills of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, opening onto sweeping...