Certifications

Desert Archaeology is certified as both a Woman-Owned Small Business (nationwide) and a Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (Arizona, New Mexico, California), and holds a GSA contract.

As a certified Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB), we can help your project meet federal contracting goals for use of small business set-asides. We can also help meet state and federal transportation project goals for the use of Disadvantaged Business Enterprise (DBEs), as we are registered in both Arizona and New Mexico, and have completed the ADOT DBE Business Development Program.

Federal clients can find us on the GSA schedule (GS-10F-161AA), a contract we have held since 2013.

We are a charter member of the American Cultural Resources Association, the trade organization for the cultural resources management industry in the United States.

Desert Archaeology is a partner in the Coalition for Archaeological Synthesis. The Coalition promotes and funds collaborative synthetic research that seeks to understand the past in ways that contribute solutions to contemporary problems. Our partnership reflects our goal of encouraging our staff to develop innovative, efficient analytical and interpretive techniques and to collaborate with outside researchers to produce the best science possible from CRM excavations. In this way, we maximize the research potential of data collected by member organizations for the benefit of the people and communities that have supported archaeological research.

Desert Archaeology Principal Investigators Sarah Herr (president and Tucson office) and Kathy Henderson (Phoenix office) are listed in the Register of Professional Archaeologists, whose members agree to abide by an explicit code of conduct and standards of research performance.