Modernizes Crow Canyon Archaeological Center’s research database to enable diverse forms of access for researchers, descendent communities, and the broader public.

A collaboration between Crow Canyon and the Hopi Cultural Preservation Office to understand ancient maize (corn) agriculture in the Mesa Verde region through documenting traditional ecological knowledge, experimental gardens, and genetic analysis.

An examination of the Haynie site, a multi-component Ancestral Pueblo village with two Pueblo II period (A.D. 950–1150) great houses located northeast of Cortez, Colorado.

Using LiDAR technology, Research Institute team and Research Institute Associates are analyzing data related to previously identified community centers, testing methods for organizing these data for future analyses, and standardizing methods for documenting and identifying new landscape features.

Access one of the largest archaeological databases in North America. Crow Canyon’s Archaeological Research Database is an extensive collection of field and laboratory data generated as a result of the Center’s ongoing research into Indigenous cultures.

The database currently contains information of numerous archaeological sites in southwestern Colorado and southeastern Utah.

The database connects users to information (field data, analyses data, maps, and photographs) for individual sites or for multiple sites simultaneously.

This photo database contains thousands of carefully curated images that document archaeological research, offering a deeper visual connection to past landscapes, structures, and cultural belongings.