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 […]
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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 […]
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 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 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 […]
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 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 […]
Now one of the oldest shipwrecks in the state, the Queen Anne’s Revenge once served as the flagship for the infamous pirate Blackbeard before running aground in 1718. In 1996, […]
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 […]
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 […]
At Kaxil Kiuic, George Bey demonstrates that archaeology can be used to preserve both cultural resources and endangered environments. Following Millsaps College’s purchase of 4500 acres of land in Mexico, […]
The Carr Plantation Archaeology and Heritage Project at Little Bay, directed by Jessica Striebel MacLean of Boston University, combines aspects of site preservation with education and outreach activities to protect […]
The non-profit organization Friends of Stafford Civil War Sites (FSCWS) partnered with Stafford County to create a public park that preserves and promotes a number of Civil War army encampments […]
Through their work at the site of Azoria, Crete, co-directors Donald Haggis and Margaret Mook have proven that site preservation and excavation should go hand-in-hand. Their conservation program at Azoria […]
