About Us
What is The Archaeological Conservancy?
Our main office located at 1717 Girard Blvd NE Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Why save archaeological sites?
When ancestral Native American villages are damaged and destroyed by looters or leveled for shopping centers, it lessens us as Americans. Precious ties that link all of us to these storied places are also destroyed forever.
Over the past few decades, the knowledge and methods of modern archaeologists have advanced tremendously. Today researchers use technologies such as tree-ring dating, radiocarbon dating, archaeomagnetic dating, obsidian hydration dating, pollen analysis, and trace-element analysis to glean information from the archaeological record. Few of these technologies existed 50 years ago. For this reason, it’s important that we keep a significant portion of raw data in the ground, where future archaeologists with even more advanced knowledge and technologies will have access to it.
Aerial View of Arroyo Hondo Preserve near Santa Fe, New Mexico from Episode 1 of our Virtual Tour Video Series on YouTube.