The President of the Archaeological Conservancy Mark Michel.

Mark Michel awarded the Cultural Resource Achievement Award, George Wright Society

The Archaeological Conservancy’s president, Mark Michel, was recently awarded with the Cultural Resource Achievement Award from the George Wright Society, a prestigious international organization of park professionals. The Society strives to be the premier...

Expeditions and Adventures in Eastern Archaeology and History

Expeditions of the Eastern Region Every year each office of The Archaeological Conservancy offers a tour that highlights this region’s unique history. In the Eastern region we have a long and complicated history, which includes...
Newly recorded site Mound, Kentucky.

Update MW: Newly Recorded Site Now Protected

The Archaeological Conservancy recently accepted a donation of a large prehistoric burial mound in north eastern Kentucky.  Town Square Bank, of Ashland KY, has generously donated 3 parcels of land totaling about 5 acres...
Donor Tom Davis at the Ranch Site

Update SW: Gem of a Preserve – The Davis Ranch sites

From the Southwest Region Office, By Chaz Evans Tom Davis has generously donated an absolute gem to The Archaeological Conservancy. This gem, the Davis Ranch, has multiple prehistoric sites on it and is located north...
Group visit to Biderbost Preserve

Update W: Ancient Baskets New Again from Biderbost Preserve

The Western Office just did a very special visit to our Biderbost Preserve.  Cory Wilkins, Director of the Western Regional Office for TAC, met with Ed Carriere of the Suquamish tribe, Dr. Dale Croes...
The remaining mound at Richards Bridge.

Update SE: An Arkansas Site Visit Filled With New Discoveries

It goes without saying that not every visit to a site results in an acquisition, but the visits themselves are always interesting. Not long ago, a good friend and long time Conservancy supporter, Dr....
Newark Earthworks, in Ohio, boasts the largest earthen enclosures in the world and we concluded the tour with a trip to the Great Circle and the Octagon Earthworks

Update MW: Moundbuilders’ of Ohio

The Midwestern office recently finished up an exciting tour of archaeological sites in Ohio.  We started the Moundbuilders Tour, 2015 in Columbus with an introductory presentation by Dr. Jarrod Burks.  He educated us about...
Totem outside of the Suquamish Tribe's longhouse.

Update W: Summit on Collaborative Land Use Planning

The Western regional office was proud to participate at the 8th Annual Cultural Resource Protection Summit on Collaborative Land Use Planning, held in beautiful and lush Suquamish, WA, on May 20 and 21. This very...
TThe Tram Preserve, containing the remains of a Seneca Village, with high summer vegetation.

Update E: Summer Site Work in Full Swing

Earlier this month Conservancy President Mark Michael joined the staff of the Eastern Regional Office in New York  for a great visit to a few Conservancy owned preserves, and to meet with landowners, of...

Update SW: San Juan River Trip 2015

Twenty Three  people joined The Archaeological Conservancy’s adventure in the heartland of the Anasazi world, along one of the prettiest and archaeologically rich areas along the San Juan River. From land and from the vantage...