Preserves Archives - The Archaeological Conservancy

Photo of four people sitting under a blue awning looking over an open archaeological excavation. Several are taking notes.

Pennsylvania Preserves Research

Field School at Squirrel Hill Preserve

Susan BowdoinApr 9, 2025

Connecticut Preserves Updates from The Archaeological Conservancy

Fort Decatur

Susan BowdoinJan 10, 2025

American Archaeology Magazine Maryland Preserves

Researchers excavate at Barton Village preserve with PaleoDigger

Susan BowdoinNov 27, 2024

A man kneeling in front of a excavated area is holding an artifact while several others look on.

American Archaeology Magazine Mississippi Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Summer excavations at Prospect Hill are part of a larger project

Susan BowdoinNov 27, 2024

A woman stands on the side of a hill overgrown with weeds. She's pulling aside the overgrowth to expose the remains of pueblo walls.

American Archaeology Magazine New Mexico Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Conservancy takes steps to nominate Tijeras Preserve on national registry

Susan BowdoinNov 27, 2024

American Archaeology Magazine Preserves Texas

FIELD NOTE: Meyer Pottery Kiln shows research potential

Susan BowdoinAug 30, 2024

American Archaeology Magazine Mississippi Preserves

FIELD NOTE: AmeriCorps volunteers clear trees at Fort St. Pierre

Susan BowdoinAug 30, 2024

American Archaeology Magazine New York Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Plant life assessed at Eaton Preserve

Susan BowdoinAug 30, 2024

Hamline University recently conducted a GPR study at Grand Meadow Chert Quarry Archaeological and Cultural Preserve. Photo credit: Hamline University

American Archaeology Magazine Minnesota Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Ground-penetrating radar pilot study completed at Wanhi Yukan

Susan BowdoinAug 30, 2024

American Archaeology Magazine Colorado Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Knuckles Preserve | An Unrecorded Pueblo I Village

Susan BowdoinMay 31, 2024

Pennsylvania Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Tom’s Creek Quarry: Site could aid understanding of Native quarrying

Susan BowdoinMay 31, 2024

FIELD NOTE: Protection expanded at Hedley Pueblo

Susan BowdoinMay 31, 2024

American Archaeology Magazine Preserves Texas

FIELD NOTE: Upcoming documentary features the Gault site

Susan BowdoinMay 31, 2024

American Archaeology Magazine Preserves Texas

Remnants of a Spanish Mission: The 18th-century Texas site was once a refuge for Lipan Apache

Susan BowdoinMay 31, 2024

Preserves Wyoming

The Richard D. Wagner Family Preserve at Legend Rock

Susan BowdoinMay 13, 2024

California Preserves

CA-KIN-4

Susan BowdoinApr 9, 2024

Kentucky Preserves

Singer-Hieronymus Complex

Susan BowdoinApr 9, 2024

photo showing grassy area with two mounds surrounded by trees. Two labels are afixed, showing the locations of the mounds.

Mississippi Preserves

Spokane Mound: A Mystery

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2024

map of West Virginia

Preserves West Virginia

Safeguarding of Oak Mound, An Ancient Burial Mound

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2024

photo showing two shield-like petroglyphs on a large boulder

New Mexico Preserves

Expanded Protection at Mesa Prieta

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2024

photo of wooded area with several brick walls lined up in the background

Alabama Preserves

A Fort And A Furnace

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2024

California Preserves

Ghost Dance

Susan BowdoinFeb 28, 2024

Oregon Preserves

Ni-les’tun

Susan BowdoinFeb 14, 2024

North Carolina Preserves

Thayer Farm

Susan BowdoinDec 15, 2023

Arkansas Preserves

Sulphur Fork Factory

Susan BowdoinDec 15, 2023

California Preserves

Chinatown Gardens

Susan BowdoinDec 15, 2023

New Mexico Preserves

Tijeras Canyon Village

Susan BowdoinSep 1, 2023

North Carolina Preserves

Hillsborough Archaeological District

Susan BowdoinSep 1, 2023

Georgia Preserves

McGarity-Etheridge

Susan BowdoinAug 11, 2023

Photo showing wikiup structure.

Nevada Preserves

Virginia City Wikiup

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2023

Photo of rock covered with petroglyphs.

New Mexico Preserves

Cottonwood Petroglyph Preserve

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2023

Alabama Preserves

Gulf Shores Canal

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2023

Mississippi Preserves

FIELD NOTE: Event at Jaketown highlights bird, habitat, and archaeological conservation

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2023

Nevada Preserves

Hamilton Family Archaeological Preserve

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2023

Mississippi Preserves

Mound Cemetary Mound

Susan BowdoinJan 26, 2023

Photo of 3 men standing on leaf and brush covered mound with deciduous trees in the background.

Etna Township Mound Number 1

Susan BowdoinDec 1, 2022

Landscape photo of trees and stacked rock foundation.

Maine Preserves

Historic F. Shaw & Brothers Tannery

Susan BowdoinOct 18, 2022

Preserves Virginia

Bryant Preserve

Susan BowdoinSep 22, 2022

Oak Creek Pueblo (Atkeson) taken by Prescott Photographer C.R. Allen around 1893. (Arizona Historical Society)

Arizona Preserves

Mosaic Animal Artifacts at Sugarloaf and Atkeson Pueblos

Susan BowdoinSep 2, 2022

Colorado Preserves

Shields Pueblo

Susan BowdoinSep 1, 2022

Colorado Preserves

Yellowjacket Canyon Preserve

Susan BowdoinSep 1, 2022

California Preserves

Butte-961

Susan BowdoinSep 1, 2022

Connecticut Preserves

NEHFES Synagogue, Shoyket’s House, and Mikveh Archaeological Preserve

Susan BowdoinJun 13, 2022

Preserves Vermont

Egg Mountain: A Snapshot of Subsistence and Rebellion

Susan BowdoinJun 9, 2022

Alabama Preserves

Blakeley Bluff

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2022

Colorado Events and Outreach Preserves

Haynie Pueblo Site honored with Stephen H. Hart Award

Susan BowdoinApr 20, 2022

Preserves Virginia

Exploring Early Industry at the Pamplin Pipe Factory

Susan BowdoinApr 6, 2022

Pile of rocks with leaf-litter and tree limbs

Preserves Virginia

Prince Edward Soapstone Quarry Preserve

Susan BowdoinMar 21, 2022

Preserves Virginia

A site visit to the Thunderbird Preserve

Susan BowdoinMar 2, 2022

Photo of four people carrying equipment as they walk through a plowed field.

Mississippi Preserves

FIELD NOTE: A Geophysical Survey at the Carson Site

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2022

Michigan Preserves

Zemaitis

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2022

New Mexico Preserves

Fetterman

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2022

Maine Preserves

Sharrow and Bingham Preserves

Susan BowdoinDec 23, 2021

photo of large boulders with stacks of smaller rocks on top

California Preserves

Arbegast

Susan BowdoinDec 1, 2021

New York Preserves

Flint Mine Hill Archaeological Site

Susan BowdoinNov 12, 2021

Group of people surrounding sign declaring the site to be Kippax Plantation

Preserves Virginia

Historic Marker Unveiled at Kippax Plantation

Susan BowdoinSep 16, 2021

Photo of grassy field surrounded by green trees. Sky is filled with white and gray clouds.

Preserves West Virginia

McGraw Farm

Susan BowdoinSep 1, 2021

Mississippi Preserves Research

Krumcke Presents Master’s Thesis on Prospect Hill Preserve

Susan BowdoinJul 15, 2021

Preserves Texas

Conservancy Receives 2021 Conservation Award from the ARARA for Sunset Ranch Petroglyph Preserve

Susan BowdoinJun 25, 2021

Vintage photo of Big Pond Furnace

Pennsylvania Preserves

Big Pond Furnace featured at the Maryland Iron Festival

Susan BowdoinJun 16, 2021

New Mexico Preserves

Take a Virtual Tour of Wells Petroglyph Preserve

Susan BowdoinJun 14, 2021

Photo of an information placard installed in a green field. The placard reads "Welcome to Arlington Sites Preserve. Owned and Managed by the Archaeological Conservancy"

Preserves Virginia

Arlington

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2021

s an approximately 85 acre property located at the northern end of Montezuma Canyon in southeastern U tah.

Montezuma Village

Susan BowdoinJun 1, 2021

Georgia Preserves

Stallings Island Preserve

Susan BowdoinApr 6, 2021

Preserves Texas

Sunset Ranch Petroglyphs

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2021

Georgia Preserves

Donkey Drama on Stallings Island

Susan BowdoinAug 4, 2020

Events and Outreach Preserves West Virginia

Arbuckle’s Fort Campaign Radio Interview

Susan BowdoinJul 17, 2020

View of the Smith Family Archaeological Preserve

Smith Family Archaeological Preserve Fire Started by Trespassers

Susan BowdoinJul 1, 2020

Arbuckle’s Fort

Susan BowdoinJun 29, 2020

California Preserves

Simone Mound

Susan BowdoinJun 24, 2020

California Preserves

Terrarium

Susan BowdoinJun 17, 2020

Massachusetts Preserves

Bull Brook II

Susan BowdoinJun 12, 2020

Smith Family Archaeological Preserve

Susan BowdoinAug 12, 2019

New Mexico Preserves

Out of the Limelight, Onto the Mesa: Katherine Wells and the Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project

Susan BowdoinJul 22, 2019

Pennsylvania Preserves

Ebbert Spring

Susan BowdoinJul 5, 2019

photo of a woman wearing a yellow safety vest and using a measuring tape to measure petroglyphs on a rock.

Smith Family Preserve Student Volunteers

Susan BowdoinMay 27, 2019

New Mexico Preserves

Rancho along the Rio: preserving Spanish Colonial culture in northern New Mexico

Susan BowdoinFeb 4, 2019

Massachusetts Preserves

Nemasket River Village/Ja Mar

sarahDec 5, 2018

In spring and summer, the Mount Bayou Mound is almost completely obscured by the thick growth of the Louisiana riverine environment. Credit:JESSICA CRAWFORD

Louisiana Preserves

The Mystery Of Mount Bayou Mound

Susan BowdoinSep 28, 2018

Various pipe bowl fragments were also found at Shelby. Credit: DOUGLAS J. PERRELLI, ARCHAEOLOGICAL SURVEY, DEPARTMENT OF ANTHROPOLOGY, UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO

New York Preserves

A Remarkable Earthwork Preserved: Shelby Fort

Susan BowdoinSep 28, 2018

A flake (top) and a sherd found on the site. Credit: The Archaeological Conservancy.

New Mexico Preserves

Learning About The Corona Phase at the English-Harkey Site

Susan BowdoinJun 22, 2018

The pueblo is now a grass-covered rubble mound that contains about sixty rooms. Credit: Chaz Evans/The Archaeological Conservancy.

Arizona Preserves

Preserving An Ancestral Zuni Village: Amity Pueblo

Susan BowdoinJun 22, 2018

The eight-foot-high Perthshire Mound is covered by trees. Credit: Archaeological Conservancy.

Mississippi Preserves

A Vestige of The Late Archaic: Perthshire Mound

Susan BowdoinJun 22, 2018

Colorado Preserves

Puzzle House

Susan BowdoinMay 20, 2018

Jim Walker, Southwest Regional Director, stands in what archaeologist suspect is one of two large great kivas on the site.

New Mexico Preserves

Dein Ruin

Susan BowdoinMar 8, 2018

It’s thought that the springhouse could have once served as a private fort.

Pennsylvania Preserves

Expanded Ebbert Spring Site preserve that spans Paleo-Indian to 19th Century

Susan BowdoinJan 15, 2018

Mark Michel, the president of the Conservancy, walks behind an excavated masonry room. Credit: Jim Walker/The Archaeological Conservancy.

New Mexico Preserves

A Glimpse of The Zuni: Tinaja Pueblo

Susan BowdoinDec 7, 2017

After the welcome, guest were treated to musician William Ross, a student in Jackson State University’s Classical Music Program, playing “Amazing Grace.” (Photo H.P. Lail Photography)

Mississippi Preserves

The Importance of Prospect Hill Plantation Crosses International Borders

Susan BowdoinNov 17, 2017

An aerial view of the Danbury site. The new preserve is the open field to the right of the houses. Credit: Gregory Spatz.

Danbury Site Preservation: A Long And Winding Road

Susan BowdoinSep 19, 2017

Arkansas Preserves

Chickasawba: Where Beautiful Pottery was produced

Susan BowdoinSep 18, 2017

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.

Preserves Wyoming

Teapot Dome

Susan BowdoinMar 8, 2017

A reconstructed polychrome bowl recovered from the Kipp Ruin. Photo The Archaeological Conservancy.

New Mexico Preserves

Kipp Ruin

Susan BowdoinFeb 2, 2017

Photo showing various pieces of pottery among metal roofind material and a collapsed wooden building.

Preserves Texas

Meyer Pottery Kiln

Susan BowdoinFeb 1, 2017

New Mexico Preserves

Protection of Holmes Group & Garcia Canyon Pueblito sites ensured with grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation

Susan BowdoinJan 30, 2017

The Biesterfeldt Site Archaeological Preserve, North Dakota. Lush grass, few neighbors, no problems.

North Dakota Preserves

Biesterfeldt Earth Lodge National Historic Landmark

Susan BowdoinJan 11, 2017

Illinois Preserves

McCarty Mound

Susan BowdoinDec 7, 2016

1843 Fort Nisqually, group touring. Photo Carol Estep, DuPont Historical Society.

Preserves Washington

1843 Fort Nisqually: The Fort that was Never a Fort

Susan BowdoinOct 12, 2016

Photo showing a desert landscape with small shrubs in the foreground and flat-topped mesas beyond.

Virgin River Village

Susan BowdoinSep 8, 2016

Visting the Past with the Future: Dr. Jim Judge visits Chaco Canyon with his grandson. Credit Jim Judge and Bliss Bruen.

New Mexico Preserves

Chaco Scholars Lend Support to Save Holmes Group Site

Susan BowdoinAug 4, 2016

A collection of points discovered at the 8,700-year-old Woodhaven site. Credit Garth L. Baldwin.

Preserves Washington

Woodhaven

Susan BowdoinJul 20, 2016

Tour participants at the Borax Lake Preserve. Photo The Archaeological Conservancy.

California Preserves

Borax Lake Preserve: 12,000 Years of Prehistory

Susan BowdoinJul 15, 2016

New Mexico Preserves

The Holmes Group Site

sarahJun 8, 2016

Mark Boatwright and John Wiley, the son of Roland Wiley, stand by a hearth-like feature.

Nevada Preserves

Roland H. Wiley Preserve | Nevada

Susan BowdoinFeb 9, 2016

The circular earthwork is located in a wooded area. Archaeologists don’t know what purpose earthworks served.

Pennsylvania Preserves

Dingfelder Circle Earthworks

Susan BowdoinFeb 9, 2016

View Of Arroyo Hondo Pueblo From The South. Photos: http://www.arroyohondo.org

New Mexico Preserves Research

Arroyo Hondo website chronicles 45 years of research

Susan BowdoinJan 29, 2016

Southwest Regional Director Jim Walker Examining the site

New Mexico Preserves

Saving an Ancestral Puebloan site: Manzanares Pueblo

Susan BowdoinOct 1, 2015

This chert biface tool was found at the site.

California Preserves

Siemer

Susan BowdoinSep 3, 2015

Elizabeth Irwin of the University of Alabama Museums, Jessica Crawford, Southeast regional director for the Conservancy, Matt Gage, director of the Office of the University of Alabama Museums, and Howell Poole, Jr., president of the Bank of Moundville, discuss the significance of the Asphalt Company Mound during a recent site visit.

Alabama Preserves

Asphalt Company Mound

Susan BowdoinSep 3, 2015

The early morning sun shines on the Esmond 2 site.

New York Preserves

Esmond

Susan BowdoinSep 3, 2015

In 1986 Volunteers Work to Preserve and Protect Mud Springs Ruin.

Colorado Preserves

Mud Springs Pueblo -It Takes A Lot to Ruin A Ruin

Susan BowdoinAug 20, 2015

This fragment of a trumpet-style pipe was found at the site. Courtesy Rochester Museum & Science Center.

New York Preserves

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Susan BowdoinJun 11, 2015

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Preserving Steel Earthworks

Susan BowdoinJun 9, 2015

New Mexico Preserves

Preservation in Action: Garcia Canyon Pueblito

Susan BowdoinMay 29, 2015

Donor Tom Davis at the Ranch Site

New Mexico Preserves

Gem of a Preserve – The Davis Ranch sites

Susan BowdoinMay 11, 2015

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.

Nevada Preserves

Mound Spring

Susan BowdoinApr 7, 2015

Bidding Farewell to the Junction Group for now

Junction Group Earthworks

Susan BowdoinMar 29, 2015

The prehistoric Yorktown Enclosure is hidden in this woods along Ind. 32 between Muncie and Yorktown. (Photo: The Archaeological Conservancy.)

Indiana Preserves

Yorktown Enclosure

Susan BowdoinMar 25, 2015

Colorado Preserves

Celebrating 35 years of Conservation: Jim Walker discusses Yellow Jacket Pueblo

Susan BowdoinMar 4, 2015

Sagebrush bark sandals from Fort Rock Cave, similar to specimens radiocarbon dated from 10,500-9,300 years old. photo from http://pages.uoregon.edu/connolly/FRsandals.htm

Oregon Preserves

Fort Rock Cave

Susan BowdoinJan 15, 2015

Potter mound tour visit

Arkansas Preserves

TAC Completes Protection of Potter Mound in Northwest Arkansas

Susan BowdoinDec 30, 2014

Montana Preserves

MacHaffie Site

Susan BowdoinDec 18, 2014

Candies Creek Ridge, TN

Preserves Tennessee

Candies Creek Village Archaeological Preserve

Susan BowdoinDec 11, 2014

These Late Woodland stemmed points were found in the fields around both mounds of Sally Warren Mounds.

Louisiana Preserves

Sally Warren Mounds

Susan BowdoinNov 28, 2014

Blockhouse 8 is seen in the foreground of this scale model of Fort Greenville.

Fort Greenville

Susan BowdoinNov 28, 2014

This longhouse was exposed during excavations directed by William Ritchie and Robert Funk in the 1960s.

New York Preserves

Garoga

Susan BowdoinNov 27, 2014

Los Morteros archaeological site, Az. The photo was taken on Saturday, December 21, 2013 in Tucson, Ariz. Photo by A.E. Araiza/ Arizona Daily Star

Arizona Preserves

Trincheras of Los Morteros, Dairy, and Barachas Sites

Susan BowdoinNov 13, 2014

Magnetic Re-Survey of Junction Group Archaeological Preserve

Susan BowdoinNov 12, 2014

Montezuma Valley was home to upwards of 30,000 people at it's peak in the mid-1200s. Photo by Chaz Evans.

Colorado Preserves

Yellow Jacket Pueblo

Susan BowdoinOct 23, 2014

Fort Necessity National Battlefield. Photo from National Park Service Digital Image Archives

Pennsylvania Preserves

Dunbar’s Camp

Susan BowdoinOct 16, 2014

Aztalan State Park, Platform mound

Preserves Wisconsin

Telfer Mounds

Susan BowdoinSep 29, 2014

Del and Colby Bartlett, Tippecanoe County Historical Association, at the recently purchased land at Fort Ouiatenon.

Indiana Preserves

TAC & the TCHA preserve Native American villages near Ft. Ouiatenon historic site

Susan BowdoinSep 22, 2014

A reconstructed pot recovered from a Swift Creek burial mound.

Florida Preserves

Bird Hammock

sarahSep 11, 2014

Cashie pottery sherds and projectile points recovered from the site.

North Carolina Preserves

Koon’s Landing

sarahSep 11, 2014

California Preserves

Mojave Preserve // Workplace on the Mojave

Susan BowdoinSep 9, 2014

Creswell Ranch Petroglyphs

Arizona Preserves

Creswell Ranch

Susan BowdoinSep 4, 2014

Mississippi Preserves

Prospect Hill Plantation

sarahAug 8, 2014

Potter Mound

Arkansas Preserves

Potter Mound

Susan BowdoinJun 12, 2014

Jackson Flat

Susan BowdoinJun 12, 2014

California Preserves

Portuguese Bench

Susan BowdoinMay 2, 2014

Mendota State Hospital Group Madison Wisconsin

Preserves Wisconsin

Effigy Mounds in Madison and the Four Lakes Region

Susan BowdoinMar 12, 2014

Florida Preserves

Windover

Susan BowdoinMar 12, 2014

Preserves Virginia

Prince Edward Soapstone Quarry

sarahFeb 15, 2014

photo of 2 stone tools found at the Paul-Bauman Pueblo site

Paul-Bauman Pueblo

sarahFeb 15, 2014

Kentucky Preserves

Backusburg Mounds

sarahJan 1, 2014

New York Preserves

Cayadutta

sarahJan 1, 2014

Colorado Preserves

Sopris

sarahJan 1, 2014

Paragonah Mounds

sarahJan 1, 2014

Georgia Preserves

Scott-McCall Preserve Expanded

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2013

Illinois Preserves

Excavations at the Fingerhut Tract

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2013

New Mexico Preserves

Revealing the Mystery of Teipana

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2013

Idaho Preserves

Croft Preserve in Idaho

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2013

Photo of a flat field overgrown with weeds and a small grove of trees in the background.

California Preserves

Redtfeldt

Susan BowdoinMar 1, 2013

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