Searching For Etzanoa
Spring 2016: By David Malakoff.
In the early summer of 1601, Juan de Oñate, a conquistador who helped establish the Spanish colony of New Mexico, set off on a search to find Quivira, a fabled...
The Lure of Oaxaca: Conservancy Tours for Day of the Dead
At The End of October, 28 Archaeological Conservancy members joined SW regional director Jim Walker and George Washington University archaeologist Jeff Blumster in Oaxaca for ten days of touring one of the most beautiful...
A Time Of Desperation: Archaeology of Maya Caves
Summer 2016: By Kristin Ohlson.
In 1989, William Pleitez was hunting near his farm in western Belize when his dog squeezed between some boulders near a hillside and disappeared. Pleitez soon found that the boulders...
Major Archaeological Pueblo Site Debuts New Website
New Website Includes Photographs, History, Research On Arroyo Hondo Site from 1300s
About 1300 C.E., a small pueblo located minutes south of present day Santa Fe, New Mexico, rapidly transformed from a 100-room hamlet to...
Archaeology In The Ice Patches
2015: By Tamara Stewart.
In 2007, archaeologist Craig Lee recovered an incredibly preserved, delicately carved birch spear-throwing foreshaft from a melting ice patch north of Yellowstone National Park. The 10,300-year-old shaft, which Paleo-Indian people used...
Archaeology Under Attack
Spring 2017: By Tamara Jager Stewart.
In the late 1980s, while working in Wisconsin, Lynne Goldstein, now archaeology professor and director of the Campus Archaeology Program at Michigan State University, served on a panel working...
Archaeologist to re-investigate Leonard Rockshelter
By Debra Reid, d.reid@winnemuccapublishing.net; in the Lovelock Review-Miner, Nevada 5/30/18; published by permission
This summer, a University of Nevada, Reno archaeological team will “re-visit” the Leonard Rockshelter near Lovelock. Updated excavation and radiocarbon dating methods may...
Donkey Drama on Stallings Island
Donkeys and goats were introduced on this Conservancy site in 2008 to control plant overgrowth. Recently, an ill-mannered male donkey had to be removed from the island – and it was no small feat....
Preservation in Action: Garcia Canyon Pueblito
Preservation in action! The stabilization of Garcia Canyon Pueblito in northern New Mexico has begun! This significant site was acquired from private owners by the Conservancy in 2011 and is one of the few...
In Celebration of African-American History Month: Preserving Heritage through Archaeology
A Look at TAC’s African-American Historical and Archaeological Preserves in the Midwest
Broadly speaking, the mission of The Archaeological Conservancy is to acquire sufficient sites to create a representative sample of the archaeological record of...