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ALBUQUERQUE, NM | The Archaeological Conservancy is seeking a new DIGITAL OUTREACH COORDINATOR to manage our educational outreach program and maintain our website and social media platforms. The current Digital Outreach Coordinator April Brown will be succeeding Jim Walker as the Southwest Regional Coordinator at the end of this year. Those who wish to apply […]
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MAINE |Visit the historic F. Shaw & Brothers Tannery Site in our latest virtual site visit on YouTube. Eastern Regional Director Kelley Berliner will share more about the history of this late 19th-century tannery and how research could uncover new details about the workers and the once bustling tanning industry in the region. 📺Watch the […]
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VIRGINIA | Join Eastern Regional Director Kelley Berliner for a virtual site visit to The Archaeological Conservancy’s Bryant Preserve. Kelley will take you on a short visit to this Middle to Late Woodland Period site that is located along the Dan River in southern Virginia, and share more about how the site is preserved and […]
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ALBUQUERQUE, NM | The Archaeological Conservancy is seeking a new MANAGING EDITOR for their award-winning publication American Archaeology magazine. The current Editor Michael Bawaya is retiring at the end of this year after many successful years with the publication. Those who wish to apply can CLICK HERE to read and download the JOB ANNOUNCEMENT. Cover […]
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Cover Photo from the article “Understanding The Lead Rush” – Syracuse University student wearing mosquito netting to ward off gnats takes notes. | Credit: Joshua Ives. The latest edition of American Archaeology Magazine will be arriving in our Member’s mailboxes starting this week! You can read highlights from the featured articles here. To become a […]
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By David Malakoff Archaeologists routinely raise shipwrecks from their watery graves. But on a sparkling spring day in Alexandria, Virginia, a team that included two scuba divers was working in reverse: carefully sinking pieces of three eighteenth-century wooden ship hull remnants—including those of the largest colonial-era merchant ship ever excavated in the United States—into the […]
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By Julian Smith In June of this year, James Adovasio of the Heinz History Center in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, returned to a site he has been investigating since the end of the Vietnam War. The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is a natural sandstone overhang above Cross Creek, a tributary of the Ohio River about thirty miles southwest of […]
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By Tamara Jager Stewart The late Wendy Ashmore was one of the leading theoreticians in Maya archaeological research. She was born in Los Angles in 1948, and she earned her B.A. in anthropology in 1969 from UCLA, and her Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1981. Beginning with her dissertation Precolumbian Occupation at Quirigua, […]
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By Mike Toner The admonition to “leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but pictures” is as familiar to national parks’ visitors as admission fees. So, it seems, is the urge to take more than pictures—a transgression that, for many, begets a nagging remorse that belatedly prompts them to return the little treasures they pocketed during […]
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By Elizabeth Lunday In 1830, a woman named Susan Gratiot received a letter from her father. Gratiot (pronounced GRASH-it) lived in a two-room log cabin with her husband and several young children in a mining community in southern Wisconsin on the border between Native American and white American-controlled territory. Her husband was often away on […]
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Cover Photo: Photo of Oak Creek Pueblo (Atkeson) taken by Prescott Photographer C.R. Allen around 1893. (Arizona Historical Society) VERDE VALLEY, AZ | Our recent Virtual Tour Video focuses on two Southern Sinagua or Hisatsinom villages in the Verde Valley of Arizona, Sugarloaf and Atkeson Pueblos. These lonely hilltop sites are now protected by The […]
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Watch our latest Virtual Tour, Episode 6: The Hisatsinom Hilltop Sites of the Verde Valley now on YouTube! This film includes tours of two Conservancy preserves from this era, Sugarloaf Pueblo and Atkeson Pueblo, along with a visit to an impressive group of interconnecting cavates along Oak Creek. The virtual tour concludes with a visit […]
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Throwback Thursday to a November 1992 article in the magazine Arizona Highways featuring our President and Co-founder Mark Michel. The article discusses how The Archaeological Conservancy was born from the idea that in order to protect these vulnerable sites they should be privately owned by those who care. Fast forward 30 years and, thanks to […]
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Join us this fall on an archaeological adventure! Sign-up today and reserve your space! UPCOMING TOURS: Highlights of the Northern Plains | September 3-8, 2022 The Archaeology of Ontario, Canada | September 10-17, 2022 Cliff Dwellers | September 16-26, 2022 | The Archaeological Conservancy 2022
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In honor of Juneteenth, this is an account of the Destruction of the Forks of the Road Slave Market in Natchez, Mississippi by the US Colored Troops organized in Mississippi in 1863. This letter appeared in the Milwaukee Daily Sentinel: “February 17, 1864 Letter from Natchez Correspondent of the Sentinel, Natchez, Miss., Jan. 25, 1864. […]
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Tributes by Dr. Paul Gardner and Dr. Mark Mitchell Accomplishments Compiled with the generous assistance of Dr. Mark Mitchell The archaeological community was saddened to hear of the passing of esteemed Plains archaeologist Fern Swenson. Fern was born on December 5, 1954 in Starbuck, MN and passed on April 15 in Cedar Rapids, IA. Fern […]
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Chesterfield, CT | The Archaeological Conservancy and the New England Hebrew Farmers of the Emanuel Society (NEHFES) have completed the transfer of the synagogue parcel of the “NEHFES Synagogue and Creamery Site” in Chesterfield, Connecticut. This has gifted the parcel to The Conservancy, insuring the protection of the site in perpetuity. The […]
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By Kelley Berliner VERMONT | The Egg Mountain site consists of a hillside settlement that was likely occupied from the late 1700s until approximately 1820. At least a dozen cellar holes, combined with stone walls and other landscape features, suggest this was the location of a sizeable community. The site is undisturbed, and the archaeological […]
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📷: 16,000-18,000 year-old artifacts from the Gault Site in Texas. On June 23, Dr. Clark Wernecke will return for a new presentation! In this talk, Dr. Wernecke will review the archaeological evidence that debunks the old “Clovis First” theory and discuss how this evidence is shifting the paradigm on how scholars perceive the early migrations […]
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Get a preview of the summer issue of American Archaeology Magazine HERE! Read article excerpts, book reviews, and more! TAC Members should receive a copy in the mail soon! Non-members can find a copy on select newsstands or become a member to have a copy to delivered to your mailbox quarterly. | The Archaeological […]
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By Michael Bawaya In August of 1970, the renowned anthropologist Robert Carneiro published a paper titled “A Theory of the Origin of the State” in the journal Science. The paper explored the theories that had been devised to explain the origin of what he called “the most far-reaching political development in human history.” Carneiro stated […]
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By Gayle Keck The present is catching up to the past. For millennia, Native Americans have entered altered states of consciousness for social, ceremonial, recreational, and medicinal reasons. Now, in modern times, substances that induce altered states are gaining legitimacy for many uses, including treating PTSD and depression. This new acceptance has sent a flood […]
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By David Malakoff In the early 1800s, Alexander Lindsay, a retired British general who was a former governor of Jamaica and the sixth Earl of Balcarres, sensed an opportunity to cash in on Europe’s thirst for the bitter brew known as coffee. In the Caribbean, a revolutionary uprising in Haiti had paralyzed the former French […]
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By Paula Neely For years, Anne Richardson, chief of the Rappahannock tribe, gathered with her people for ceremonies and summer fish fries at several locations along the Rappahannock River in Virginia. She didn’t realize the significance of the locations until they were recently identified as ancestral Rappahannock sites. “We had lost sight of the ancient […]
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By Jackie Rocheleau Most visitors to New York State begin and end their trips in New York City. But those traveling outside the urban center can experience the rich history of the region across the millennia. The best place to start would be the state capital, Albany, at the New York State Museum, home to […]
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Join us on May 26th as Dr. Greg White presents “Research Potential of the Borax Lake Site: A Western Clovis Locality in California’s North Coast Ranges!” The Borax Lake site contains evidence of Paleoindian and Archaic period camp sites located adjacent to a rich source of obsidian. Dr. White will share the details of his […]
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If you missed Dr. Hannah Mattson’s lecture on May 12, the recording is now available HERE. Learn more about the importance of directionality and color in traditional Pueblo worldviews and how these views may apply to ceremonial offerings found at Pueblo Bonito. Visit our YouTube channel to watch all of our past virtual lectures. […]
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Santa Fe, NM | Southwest Seminars will be offering four new lectures in May to honor The Archaeological Conservancy. The series is being held at Hotel Santa Fe at 6 pm on Mondays. Click here for the full schedule. Prepayment and proof of vaccination are required to attend. The cost is $75 for the series […]
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DENVER | On April 19, History Colorado and historic preservationists from around the state of Colorado celebrated the winners of the 2022 Stephen H. Hart Awards for Historic Preservation at a ceremony in Denver. Recipients for this award are selected for their contributions toward advancing the preservation field through the research and innovation. We are […]
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Join Eastern Regional Director Kelley Berliner for another behind-the-scenes look at one of our Virginia Preserves. This time, Kelley will share more about the Pamplin Pipe Factory Preserve in central Virginia. This Conservancy Preserve contains the remains of, what was at one time, the largest production facility of clay tobacco pipes in the world. Watch our […]
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Santa Fe, NM | Southwest Seminars will be offering three new lectures in April to honor The Archaeological Conservancy. The series is being held at Hotel Santa Fe at 6 pm on Mondays. Click here for the full schedule. Prepayment and proof of vaccination are required to attend. The cost is $55 for the series […]
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Eastern Regional Director Kelley Berliner is taking you behind the scenes for another site visit in Virginia. This time, Kelley is sharing more about the Prince Edward Soapstone Quarry Preserve in central Virginia. This prehistoric quarry site contains around 150 soapstone boulder piles that were once stockpiled by Native Americans for carving vessels and other […]
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PRESS RELEASE FROM Eno River Association, Classical American Homes Preservation Trust, and The Archaeological Conservancy HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. |The Eno River Association is facilitating the sale of over 200 acres near downtown Hillsborough from Classical American Homes Preservation Trust to The Archaeological Conservancy and the State to be added to Eno River State Park. This transaction, […]
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The Spring 2022 edition of American Archaeology is now available! Get your copy on select newsstands nationwide or become a member of The Archaeological Conservancy for your complimentary subscription. Read highlights from the latest issue here!
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By Julian Smith One of the most enduring icons of the American West is a Native American rider on horseback, galloping into battle or chasing down a herd of buffalo. For all of its cultural significance, though, the domestic horse was a relatively recent addition to Indigenous people in North America. The introduction of the […]
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By Wayne Curtis Ever since explorers John Stephens and Frederick Catherwood stumbled out of the Yucatán Peninsula’s jungles two centuries ago with headline-making tales of crumbling stone ruins, scholars have struggled to explain what happened to one of the ancient world’s most advanced civilizations known for its iconic architecture, art, writing, calendars, and an understanding […]
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By Tamara Jager Stewart The Bloody Basin meteorite was in the Red Creek Ruin in the Tonto National Forest when it burned down around 1385. It’s not known if the ruin’s occupants venerated the meteorite. | Credit: Lawrence Garvie, ASU Brilliant meteors streaking across the sky have mesmerized people and sparked their imaginations since ancient […]
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By David Malakoff Conducting field research on Arizona’s Perry Mesa, a rugged wedge of desert some forty miles north of Phoenix known for its dazzling rock art and ancient ruins perched atop spectacular cliffs, can be challenging. “There are these basalt cobbles and boulders all over the place—it seems like you can’t take a step […]
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By Wayne Curtis “It’s a huge area,” said Ashley Lemke. “It’s really deep. It’s really cold. And it’s hard to get to.” Lemke was talking about the Alpena-Amberley Ridge, a sizeable geological feature that lies about 100 feet beneath the surface of Lake Huron. The ridge runs in a northwest to southeast direction, and it […]
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Join us next Thursday, March 10 at 5 pm MST as Utah Public Archaeologist Elizabeth Hora presents “Understanding Ancient Life at Utah Lake: The Cultural History of the Smith Family Archaeological Preserve” on Zoom Webinars and Facebook Live. The Smith Family Archaeological Preserve contains over 200 petroglyph panels and several archaeological features created over thousands […]
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Join Eastern Regional Director Kelley Berliner for a routine site visit to the Thunderbird Preserve in northern Virginia. Kelley will take you on a short tour of the site and detail what is necessary to protect and maintain it for future research and public educational opportunities. The Thunderbird Preserve has deeply stratified layers containing important […]
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Santa Fe, NM | Southwest Seminars will be offering the “Native Voices” lecture series at 6 pm every Monday in March to honor The Archaeological Conservancy. The series consist of four, in-person lectures held at Hotel Santa Fe that will feature Pueblo presenters from throughout New Mexico discussing a variety of insightful topics. Prepayment and […]
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Join us for our next Virtual Lecture on February 24 at 5 pm MST as Dr. Ashley Lemke presents “Archaeology Underwater: How Submerged Landscapes are Changing the Future of Archaeology” on Zoom Webinars and Facebook Live! In this lecture, Dr. Lemke will outline how research on submerged landscapes is becoming an increasingly important part of […]
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Join us on Thursday, February 17 at 5 pm MST for our first virtual lecture of 2022, “Archaeology’s Place in Healing and Reconciliation: Reclaiming the Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere” presented by Dr. Paulette Steeves. Dr. Steeves will offer an Indigenous perspective on early migrations into the Americas that weaves paths to reviving, reclaiming, […]
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We are sad to announce that archaeologist and long-time Conservancy Board Member, Carol Condie passed away on January 22 at the age of 90. Her contributions to The Archaeological Conservancy and the field of archaeology are unmeasurable. We extend our deepest condolences to her family and friends. She will be greatly missed. Read more about […]
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We’re thrilled to announce two exciting new virtual lectures coming up in February! Join us on Zoom and Facebook Live! On February 17, Dr. Paulette Steeves will present “Archaeology’s Place in Healing and Reconciliation: Reclaiming the Indigenous Paleolithic of the Western Hemisphere” at 5 pm MST. In this lecture, you’ll learn more about how Dr. […]
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🎥 Watch it on YouTube here. The Sharrow and Brigham Archaeological Preserves are part of the Sebec-Piscataquis River Confluence Prehistoric Archeological District in central Maine. The archaeology performed at these sites has revealed important evidence of prehistoric culture dating from about 10,000 to 4,000 years ago, including the oldest evidence of squash cultivation in the […]
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Don’t miss our final Virtual Lecture of 2021 as we co-host an event with Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, our research partner at Haynie Archaeological Preserve in southern Colorado! ⭐ REGISTER ON ZOOM WEBINARS HERE. The Haynie Site was recently named a 2022 recipient of the Stephen H. Hart Award for Historic Preservation by History Colorado. […]
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The Winter 2021 edition of American Archaeology Magazine is available now! The feature article this month discusses how the eruption of an Alaskan volcano affected ancient Indigenous cultures across North America. Read a preview of this article and other articles from our latest edition of American Archaeology Magazine here. Become a member of the Archaeological […]
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By David Malakoff Nearly twelve hundred years ago, one the largest volcanic eruptions to strike North America in millennia rocked the landscape of what is now southeastern Alaska. According to geologists, over three days millions of tons of ash poured from a peak named Mount Churchill, creating a plume that likely rose twenty-five miles into […]
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