Conservancy Announces Acquisition of the Flint Mine Hill Archaeological Site in New York

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: November 12, 2021 Media Contract: Kelley Berliner, Eastern Regional Director (301) 682-6359 | tac.eastern@gmail.com Frederick, Maryland | After years of negotiations between multiple parties, the Archaeological Conservancy is pleased to announce the acquisition of the...

PRESS RELEASE | Smith Family Preserve Announces Fall Tour Schedule

UTAH - The Smith Family Archaeological Preserve, located on the western shore of Utah Lake south of Saratoga Springs, will be offering public tours this fall beginning September 7.   Preserve volunteers will conduct fall...

Visit the historic F. Shaw & Brothers Tannery site in our New Video Short

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...
U.S. Department of Energy representative Todd Stribley (left) and Conservancy President Mark Michel met last year to inspect the property. Credit: The Archaeological Conservancy.

Teapot Dome (Wyoming)

The Conservancy has established a new preserve in Wyoming, located about thirty-five miles north of Casper, on a portion of the Teapot Dome Oilfield, which is named after a local rock formation called Teapot...
The eight-foot-high Perthshire Mound is covered by trees. Credit: Archaeological Conservancy.

A Vestige of The Late Archaic: Perthshire Mound (Mississippi)

The Perthshire Mound site, named for the community in Mississippi in which it’s located, was first officially recorded in 1940. Unfortunately, there are no photos of the site and no sketch map from this...

New Virtual Tour Available Now

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,...
A reconstructed pot recovered from a Swift Creek burial mound.

Bird Hammock (Florida)

The Conservancy recently acquired the first of three tracts of an important site near the city of Tallahassee, in northwest Florida. The Bird Hammock site is a multi-component site consisting of two burial mounds...
Gaylord Robb holds up a large sandstone slab that could have served as a door for a storage pit or a pit house. Credit: Chaz Evans/ The Archaeological Conservancy.

Virgin River Village (Utah)

Three years ago Gaylord Robb brought the Virgin River Village, five-acre prehistoric site located in southwest Utah, to the Conservancy’s attention. At the time, the Conservancy was in the process of acquiring Paragonah Mounds...

Smith Family Preserve Prepares for Fall Opening

The Smith’s Family Preserve completed the installation of their information kiosk on March 30.  The project was completed through the combined efforts of generous donors, volunteers, schools, and government agencies. The Preserve would like thank...
The mound in the background and Western Regional Director Cory Wilkins on the left, avocational archaeologists Don Hendricks in the middle, and Western Field Representative Deanna Commons on the right.

Update West: Preserving a Legacy of Water in the Desert at Mound Spring Site,...

The Western Region recently acquired the remaining portion of the Mound Spring Site in Pahrump, Nevada.    The mound is bisected by a property line that basically splits it in half.  The Conservancy acquired the...