• Dovetail Cultural Resource Group is giving back to their local community by establishing a scholarship for students at the University of Mary Washington. Read more about this opportunity for historic preservation students in the Free Lance-Star.
• Heritage Research Associates Inc. was a part of the efforts to preserve a site in Oregon believed to have been visited by Meriwether Lewis & William Clark. Artifacts found, including tools and stone bowl fragments, suggest that the site is the location of a Chinookan village detailed in journals of the famed explorers. Read more in this piece from the Lewiston Tribune!
• A person's trash tells a lot about their life, and this is even true for garbage buried for over a century! Staff from Alpine Archaeology had the chance to examine long-buried refuse from the household of Gen. William Jackson Palmer, a wealthy railroad magnate and founder of Colorado Springs. Read more about how these finds are helping historians learn more about the turn-of-the-century life in area in this piece from the Colorado Sun and the video below!

DiscoverCOS: Archaeological Dig from City of Colorado Springs on Vimeo.