Site Preservation Projects
Oberlin Cemetery (founded c. 1873) is one of only four remaining historic African-Americancemeteries in Raleigh, North Carolina. As an historic archaeological site, the cemetery, whichcontains more than 600 burials, contains […]
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Preservation Through Education is a remarkable project that combines preservation work with outreach that seeks to engage local communities in the long-term safeguarding of their cultural heritage. The project focuses […]
The Baluʿa Regional Archaeological Project has been excavating the site of Khirbat al-Baluʿa in central Jordan, an important Iron Age (1000-550 BCE) Moabite city and large Middle-Late Islamic (1000-1900 CE) […]
Bears Ears Partnership leads on the ground site conservation, education, stewardship and research programs to protect and build respect for the greater Bears Ears cultural landscape. In partnership with Tribes, […]
Home to some of the area’s earliest residents, the Black Creek Indian Site in Vernon, New Jersey, includes more than 6,000 artifacts representing 10,000 years of occupation. For over a […]
The Temple of the Winged Lions Cultural Resource Management (TWLCRM) initiative was launched in 2009 as a cooperative project by ACOR, the Department of Antiquities of Jordan, and the Petra […]
The archaeological site of Deir el-Ballas was a capital for the Theban kings at the end of the Middle Kingdom period and served as a military base when the Thebans […]
This Medieval site, located at the base of the High Atlas Mountains in the Ourika Valley, was the capital of the southern districts of Morocco and the center of Berber […]
The St. David African Methodist Episcopal Zion Cemetery in Sag Harbor represents the growth of a working class and diasporic community of African American, Native American, and Irish immigrant residents […]
The site of San Bartolo, Guatemala is home to the most elaborate series of paintings featuring ancient Maya mythological images known to date. These fragile murals offer archaeologists a rare […]
Tulix Mul is home to one of the few known murals produced by the ancient Maya. These murals, though few and far between, have provided scholars with a wealth of […]
The California Archaeological Site Stewardship Program (CASSP), a program directed by the Society for California Archaeology (SCA), trains local volunteers to regularly visit assigned sites on public lands and report […]
The ancient Faliscan town of Narce, Italy is home to over twenty necropolises, the longest used and most important of which is La Petrina. La Petrina, used consistently from the […]
The archaeological site of Nama in Chile contains the remains of a Late Intermediate Period (AD 950 – 1450) village with stone structures (pukara) and funerary towers (chullpas). These features […]
The archaeological site of Aidonia in Greece includes several Late Bronze Age cemeteries dating from the 15th to 13th centuries BCE. Many tombs at the site contained elite burial goods […]
The preservation of this nine-thousand-year old site, a rare example of a well-preserved Neolithic settlement located on Turkey’s Konya plain, is threatened by the fragile composition of its ancient mud […]
The Nuri and Royal Pyramids Project will develop and implement a preservation strategy to protect the site from the encroachment, urbanization, and environmental change that threatens the site. The project […]
Co-directors Cristina Vidal Lorenzo and Gaspar Muñoz Cosme take a holistic approach to site preservation by combining scientific research and conservation of cultural heritage with economic development and educational opportunities […]
Occupation at Tahcabo, a small Yucatec-Maya village of around 500 people, can be traced back from the present day to approximately 400 BC. The arrival of the Spanish in the […]
The Temple of Athena at Assos is a magnet for tourists from all over the world and a key monument for our understanding of Greek temple architecture. The goal of […]
