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.

The past year has been one of shifting political landscapes and mounting threats to the entire enterprise of protecting and celebrating this country?s cultural and natural heritage. Now more than ever, we are deploying our proven toolkit?investigation, collaboration, preservation, education?with tenacity and purpose. Your purchase supports our work.

Check out our "Respect the Land You Stand Upon" shirt campaign. ?Respect the Land You Stand Upon? is Hopi archaeologist and author Lyle Balenquah?s simple yet powerful exhortation to us all. It became the title of a special double issue of Archaeology Southwest Magazine, for which Balenquah wrote the introduction, that explores the whys and hows of ending and responding to archaeological resource crimes on Tribal lands. This instruction plainly reminds us that all landscapes are the homelands of people and their ancestors, as well as nonhuman relatives. Share this teaching and spread the word!

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