Launched in August of 2004, the Coronado Project was an outreach and public education project that sought to determine the route of Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's infamous expedition of 1540 from northern Mexico to the Pueblo of Zuni. Archaeology Southwest (formerly the Center for Desert Archaeology) anticipated that once local residents in Arizona and New Mexico became aware of key Coronado-era artifact types, they might be able to help solve the mystery of Coronado's route.
