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2023-2024 Tours are now booking!

We’ve added new tours!
Check out our new FALL 2023 and SPRING 2024 TOUR SCHEDULE on the official Tour Page.

Virtual Tour Video Series

Take a guided tour of our preserves from the comfort of your living room in our new Virtual Tour Video Series!  Episodes 1 through 6 are available now! 
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Shedding Light on the Pleistocene Epoch: Hoyo Negro project adds new...

By Paula Neely In 2007, in a jungle north of the city and Maya Center of Tulum in Quintana Roo, Mexico, a team of cave...

Engineered by Ancestors: New research shows extensive networks of terraces, drainage...

By David Malakoff It helps to carry a machete — and an umbrella — if you are doing archaeology in Sāmoa. The South Pacific archipelago,...

TAC Acquires Egg Mountain Archaeological Site in Vermont

Sandgate, Vermont | The Archaeological Conservancy acquired the Egg Mountain Archaeological Site, a significant hillside settlement located in Vermont, on December 12, 2022. The...

TAC acquires Mound Cemetery Mound Archaeological Site in Mississippi

Marks, Mississippi | The Archaeological Conservancy has acquired the Mound Cemetery Mound archaeological site, a significant site located in Monroe County outside of Tupelo,...
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An Archaeological Conservancy Site Spotlight!
Last fall (2022), a landowner contacted The Archaeological Conservancy about a property he owned in the Village of Tijeras. He purchased some property for residential development, but later realized there was something of significance on one of the lots. This prompted a call to a local archaeologist who confirmed that there was an archaeological site on the property — identified in the New Mexico classification system as LA 580. The Conservancy closed on the property in May, increasing the number of the Conservancy’s preserves in the southwest region to 182.  

Only a few miles from Tijeras Pueblo, which would have been the central village for the smaller communities scattered throughout the canyon, Tijeras Canyon has been investigated by various educational institutions over the years but were denied permission by the previous landowners to access LA 580. 

Tijeras Canyon was home to the ancestral Tiwa of southern New Mexico who eventually settled at Sandia and Isleta pueblos. Tree-ring samples collected from Tijeras Pueblo reveal that the village was occupied for about 125 years beginning around A.D. 1313. 

The new preserve probably contains the remains of a small farming community that benefited from the seasonal water of Tijeras Arroyo, which is adjacent to this property. Stone alignments hidden beneath the vegetation at LA 580 suggest construction similar to structures at Tijeras Pueblo. These alignments may represent the foundation of a top story of room blocks that once had adobe walls. There are also similar sites in the canyon that contain deeply buried pithouses indicating an earlier occupation dating to as early as A.D. 900. 
(Photo credit: Connor Bowdoin for The Archaeological Conservancy)

Want to know more about our conservation work? Visit our website! http//www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/

An Archaeological Conservancy Site Spotlight!

Last fall (2022), a landowner contacted The Archaeological Conservancy about a property he owned in the Village of Tijeras. He purchased some property for residential development, but later realized there was something of significance on one of the lots. This prompted a call to a local archaeologist who confirmed that there was an archaeological site on the property — identified in the New Mexico classification system as LA 580. The Conservancy closed on the property in May, increasing the number of the Conservancy’s preserves in the southwest region to 182. Only a few miles from Tijeras Pueblo, which would have been the central village for the smaller communities scattered throughout the canyon, Tijeras Canyon has been investigated by various educational institutions over the years but were denied permission by the previous landowners to access LA 580. Tijeras Canyon was home to the ancestral Tiwa of southern New Mexico who eventually settled at Sandia and Isleta pueblos. Tree-ring samples collected from Tijeras Pueblo reveal that the village was occupied for about 125 years beginning around A.D. 1313. The new preserve probably contains the remains of a small farming community that benefited from the seasonal water of Tijeras Arroyo, which is adjacent to this property. Stone alignments hidden beneath the vegetation at LA 580 suggest construction similar to structures at Tijeras Pueblo. These alignments may represent the foundation of a top story of room blocks that once had adobe walls. There are also similar sites in the canyon that contain deeply buried pithouses indicating an earlier occupation dating to as early as A.D. 900. (Photo credit: Connor Bowdoin for The Archaeological Conservancy)Want to know more about our conservation work? Visit our website! http//www.archaeologicalconservancy.org/ ... See MoreSee Less

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