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Southwest :
Arizona, California, Colorado, Nevada, New Mexico, Utah
US Universities' Anthropology Departments : click here for list
States official web sites : click here

A Collection of Original Photographs of Rock Art from the Southwestern United States (New Mexico, Texas)
http://www.canyonwinds.com/rockart/

A Guided Tour of Coso Rock Art (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/rockart/

Albuquerque's Environmental Story : Archaeological Resources (New Mexico)
http://www.cabq.gov/aes/s5ares.html

Anasazi Heritage Center, Bureau of Land Management Colorado
http://www.co.blm.gov/ahc/index.htm

An outline of Utah Rock Art
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Acropolis/5579/utahrockart.html

An Unvanished Story : 5,500 Years of History in the Vicinity of Seventh & Mission Streets, San Francisco (California)
http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/appeals2.htm

Archeological Research Institute DustDevil Gorge (Colorado)
http://www.ari-aerc.org/dustdevil.htm

Archaeological Research on Santa Cruz Island : the Red Abalone midden project (California)
http://www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/glassow/RAMP/Masterpage.html

Archaeology and the Highway 88 Fire August of 2001 (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/Highway88Fire/

Arizona State University Archaeological Research Institute
http://archaeology.la.asu.edu/

Arroyo Hondo Archaeology (New Mexico)
http://www.sarweb.org/archaeology/arroyo.htm

As the flames die down (Colorado)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/fire/index.html

Behind The Botanical Parts : Are there representations of the plants, animals and other contents of the Patterson Bundle in Rock Art?
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6381/merry1.html

Bonneville Estates Rockshelter : Investigating Changing Lifeways during the Early to Middle Holocene (Nevada)
http://www.unr.edu/cla/anthro/sundance/bonneville.asp

Bureau of Land Management in California rock art tour
http://www.ca.blm.gov/pa/arch_cult/rockart.html

Burro Flats, Chumash Rock Art (California)
http://www.le.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tab_int/server/docs/ar/image_collection/
images.tab?operation=psearch&max=200&s1=Burro+Flats

California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, Archaeology Program
http://www.indiana.edu/~e472/cdf/

California Island Cave Offers Tantalizing Clues To Paleoindian Life, Oldest Site Yet On Pacific Coast Yields Cordage
http://www.peak.org/csfa/mt13-2.html#part4

California Prehistory
http://www.californiaprehistory.com/

Carrot Men site (rock art, Colorado)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/rockart/carrot1.html

Castle Rock Pueblo (Colorado)
http://www.crowcanyon.org/researchreports/castlerock/text/
crpw_home.htm

Cave paintings of Baja California
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/baja/index.html

Center for Desert Archaeology (Tucson, Arizona)
http://www.centerfordesertarchaeology.org/

Central Coast Center for Archaeological Research (California)
http://www.tcsn.net/sloarchaeology/

Channel Island Woman may be the oldest yet (California)
http://www.peak.org./csfa/mt14%2D3.html%23part1

Chumash Rock Art (California)
http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/Comp/Bill/chumash.html

Colorado Archaeological Society
http://www.coloradoarchaeology.org/

Communication: Experiments Confirm Likely Usage of Murray Springs Bone Tool (Arizona)
http://www.peak.org./csfa/mt14-2.html#part6

Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, University of California at Los Angeles, Channel Islands Laboratory
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/labs/channel.html

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center (Cortez, Colorado)
http://www.crowcanyon.org

Crow Canyon Archaeological Center - Research (Cortez, Colorado)
http://www.crowcanyon.org/research.html

Cultural response to demographic and environmental stress during the Classic Mimbres period (AD 1000-1130/40), Southern New Mexico: the cook-stone evidence
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/leach/index.html

Deer Valley Rock Art Center (Arizona)
http://www.asu.edu/clas/anthropology/dvrac/

Eight thousand year old Cave Explorer Challenges Research Team (Hourglass Cave, Colorado)
http://www.peak.org/csfa/mt12-1.html#part6

Eight thousand years of change at Morro Bay : an archaeological perspective (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/morrobay/morro.htm

Emerald Bay Historic Barges - Emerald Bay State Park, Lake Tahoe, California
http://www.indiana.edu/~scuba/embay/EmBay.html

Folsom Collections from the La Vega Site in West-Central New Mexico
http://www.peak.org/csfa/crp14-01.html

Grand Canyon Archaeology (Arizona)
http://www.sarweb.org/archaeology/canyon.htm

Grand Canyon Polychrome Pictographs (Arizona)
http://www.xmission.com/~mkallen/gcpoly/gcpoly2.html

Highway 395 : a cultural history tour of Mono and Inyo Counties (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/Caltrans/hwy395/

Household Archaeology on the Channel Islands (California)
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/pubs/backdirt/spring97/arnold.html

Land use of the Colorado Plateau (Arizona, Colorado, New Mexico, Utah)
http://www.cpluhna.nau.edu/index.htm

Mockingbird Canyon : rock art (California)
http://www.le.ac.uk/cgi-bin/tab_int/server/docs/ar/image_collection/
images.tab?operation=psearch&max=200&s1=Mockingbird+Canyon

New Mexico Office of Cultural Affairs, Historic Preservation Division
http://museums.state.nm.us/hpd/index.html

New Mexico Office of Cultural Affairs, Historic Preservation Division : About the Archaeological Permit Program, State Archaeological Permits
http://museums.state.nm.us/hpd/programs/permits/index.html

Office of Historic Preservation, California
http://ohp.parks.ca.gov/

Old Pueblo Archaeology Center (Tucson, Arizona)
http://www.azstarnet.com/nonprofit/oldpueblo/

Palatki : 6000 Years of Arizona Rock Art
http://aztec.asu.edu/aznha/palatki/palatki.html

Paleoindian Technological Organization in the Goshute Valley : Lithic Analysis of Stemmed Point Assemblages from Eastern Elko County, Nevada
http://www.unr.edu/cla/anthro/sundance/goshute.asp

Petroglyphs and rock art : Los Lunas, Valencia County, New Mexico
http://www.wcp-nm.com/rockart/

Petroglyphs and Rock Paintings (Arizona, California, New Mexico, Utah, Mexico)
http://www.execpc.com/~jcampbel

"Place of Many Soldiers" : Archaeological Investigations at Crooks Canyon (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/crookscanyon/pagei.htm

Preliminary Results of Testing and Report of 1997 Excavations at Yellow Jacket Pueblo (Site 5MT5), Montezuma County, Colorado
http://www.crowcanyon.org/ResearchReports/YJP/Report.htm

Pygmy mammoth, Channel Islands National Park (California)
http://www.nps.gov/chis/pygmy.htm

Rock art, Brian Lee's page (Colorado, Utah)
http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/rockart/

Rock Art of Baja California (Mexico) and Coso (California, USA)
http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/coso/index.html

Rock Art Of The Southwest
http://rockart.esmartweb.com/

Rock Art pages (Arizona, Colorado, Utah)
http://www.jqjacobs.net/rock_art/

School of American Research (a center for the study of the archaeology and ethnology of the American Southwest - Santa Fe, New Mexico)
http://www.sarweb.org

Sego Canyon Rock Art Site (Utah)
http://www.so-utah.com/green/segocny/homepage.html

Sipapu - The Anasazi emergence into the cyber world (includes a three-dimensional reconstruction of a Great Kiva)
http://sipapu.ucsb.edu/

South Central Coastal Information Center (California)
http://anthro.fullerton.edu/sccic/

South Western Archaeology
http://www.swanet.org/

Southwestern Rock Art Gallery (Utah)
http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/

Southwest web ring (pictures of various historical/archaeological monuments)
http://www.jqjacobs.net/southwest/index.html

S.S. Pomona Shipwreck Project (California)
http://www.indiana.edu/~e472/pomona/pomonahome.html

The archaeology of Horseshoe canyon, Canyonlands National Park (pdf format ! start your Adobe Acrobat reader !)
http://www.nps.gov/cany/pdfs/hshoebook.pdf

The Archaic Painted Tradition of the Colorado Plateau
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6381/archaic1.html

The Brazil Mound : Archaeology of a Prehistoric Village (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/brazilmound/pagei.html

The Kiva at Ladle House (Colorado)
http://www.fone.net/jerry/h/kivaovr.html

The prehistory of Owens Valley (California)
http://www.farwestern.com/owensvalley/owens.htm

The Rock Art Foundation (San Antonio, Texas)
http://www.rockart.org/

The Ross site : Grand Staircase/Escalante National Monument, Utah
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Olympus/6381/rosssite1.html

The Shields Pueblo Research Project : Annual Report, 1998 Fieldwork (Colorado)
http://www.crowcanyon.org/ResearchReports/Shields/
Shields_1998.htm

Utah History to go : American Indians
http://historytogo.utah.gov/firstpeople.html

Utah Rock Art Research Association
http://www.utahrockart.org/

V-Bar-V Ranch Petroglyph Site: Heritage Of The Beaver Creek Sinagua (Arizona)
http://aztec.asu.edu/aznha/vbarv/vbarv.html

Woolen Mills Chinatown (California - Chinese Historical and Cultural Project (CHCP))
http://www.chcp.org/woolen.html

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Buckhorn Wash rock paintings, Colorado
© Dave Lee

Pueblo Bonita, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. Copywright U.S. National Park Service
Pueblo Bonita, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico
© U.S. National Park Service