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Several members of our staff are excited to be presenting their work and participating in discussions at the 90th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA), which begins today in Denver! If you are attending the SAA, be sure to look out for the following New South staff: • Sarah Lowry and Gabe Griffin in the poster session - Mapping the Port Tampa Cemetery: The Geophysical Search for a Lost Historic Landscape on the MacDill Airfield. • Stefan Brannan as a co-chair in the Symposium - Building a Better Chronology for Fifteenth- to Eighteenth-Century Eastern North America through Radiocarbon Dating and Collaborative Research Agendas and as a discussant in the Forum: Four Decades of NAGPRA Part 2: Adapting to Changing Regulations. • Trevor Duke, PhD, RPA Duke presenting in the Symposium: Social Relations at the Nature-Culture Nexus: A Case Study from Mississippian (AD 1050–1550) Tampa Bay, Florida • Kaitlin Ahern presenting in the Symposium: Recent Investigations in Maya Archaeology, Epigraphy, Bioarchaeology, and Zooarchaeology by the Holmul Archaeological Project in Northeastern Peten, Guatemala • Samantha Taylor, RPA Taylor presenting in the General Session: Historical Archaeology • Anna Chitwood in the General Poster Session: Education and Pedagogy • Shawn Patch representing NSA at the CRM Expo. Full program here: https://lnkd.in/eTwjUn9S

The VCP is a U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) funded program that hires military veterans to process USACE collections. Over the course of five months, each technician is trained to process artifacts and documentation associated with USACE collections and receives individualized professional growth and development support. The VCP Assistant Lab Manager works closely with other management staff and provides support on administration, collection management, outreach and engagement, and personnel management within the VCP lab. Minimum Qualifications: • Bachelor’s Degree in Anthropology, Archaeology, Archival/Information Studies, Museum Studies, Historic Preservation or closely related field • Experience with public archaeology outreach and education • Excellent understanding of material culture, archaeological field methods, and/or documentation • A passion for helping others and working in a team environment Compensation and Benefits • Hourly rate of $27.50 • Federal holidays; 15 Days paid leave; Paid Health/Dental/Life Insurance; 401k (after one year)

New South Associates is supporting the Nashville Metropolitan Historic Commission (MHC) with a multi-year study to document the historic cemeteries of Davidson County, where Nashville is based. We are working hand in hand with MHC and Bryan Gilley of the MHC and Lauren Walls of our Nashville office surveyed the 500th cemetery yesterday! The completion of this inventory will help these historic cemeteries be better recognized and preserved.

We’re hiring! New South Associates, Inc. is seeking a Project Coordinator that supports Transportation projects and experienced IT professional to manage IT in our small business environment. Both positions are salaried full-time exempt with benefits located at our Stone Mountain, Georgia headquarters. Transportation Project Coordinator https://lnkd.in/eWe5WsWx IT Manager https://lnkd.in/eUi5PgP4

Director Terry Brock is out today enjoying a beautiful day mapping the lovely, budding trees at Odd Fellows Cemetery. It is important to not only catalog the trees on the property and their locations for inventory purposes, but also to support the ground penetrating radar survey that we conducted with New South Associates, Inc. last month. When the trees are overlayed with the GPR results, it will assist us in determining what anomalies might be burials, and what might be associated with tree roots, as well as places where we had to maneuver the gpr unit in ways that may have obscured the data. All of this mapping and GPR work was supported by a North Carolina Humanities grant. Without their support, and the NEH funding they disburse to support humanities projects, so many people’s burials would be missed and unrecorded. #prohumanitate

In February, New South Archaeologists Sami Taylor and Abby Bythell conducted limited archaeological investigations for the Sunset Park Club and Pool Site at L.C. Coleman Park in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. The archaeological site consists of the partial remains of a large concrete pool and an artifact assemblage associated with the nearby Sunset Club. The Sunset Club and Pool Site is a mid-twentieth century segregation-era Black community pool and social club. The Sunset Club, later rebranded as Club Mona Lisa and the Hi-Fi Club, was built in 1943 and hosted numerous prestigious gatherings and up-and-coming musicians. Both the pool and the club were important spaces for Charlotte’s Black community to gather, socialize, and celebrate accomplishments.

In honor of Women’s History Month, we celebrate Mary Beth Reed, Executive Vice President and Past President of New South Associates. With over 40 years of experience in cultural resource management, Mary Beth has made a lasting impact on our industry. As a co-founder of New South Associates in 1988, she played a pivotal role in shaping the company’s direction. She served as President from 2006 to 2023, guiding New South through tremendous growth and national recognition. Her expertise in Cold War preservation has been instrumental, particularly through her 25+ years as Principal Investigator for the Savannah River Site History Project for the Department of Energy. She serves as President of the Stone Mountain Historical Society, championing local history initiatives. Mary Beth’s contributions have been widely recognized. She was named one of Georgia’s Outstanding Women in Historic Preservation in 2002 and recently received the 2024 Marjory Gregory Jewett Award from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation for her exceptional service. Her vision has shaped many of New South’s most impactful projects, including the nationally recognized Ranch House in Georgia: Guidelines for Evaluation and The Savannah River Site at 50. Her leadership has not only transformed projects but also the company itself. We owe a great deal to Mary Beth’s hard work, tenacity, and the joy and energy she brings to everything she does. Her influence continues to inspire us, and we are grateful for her dedication to historic preservation!

New South was proud to have board and staff members attend Preservation Advocacy Week in Washington, DC this week. Shawn Patch, Natalie Pope, Zach McKeeby, Lauren Walls, Sarah Janesko, and Jackie Tyson participated in congressional meetings representing their respective home states of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Maryland. Highlights included listening to Rep. Teresa Leger Fernandez (co-chair of the house historic preservation caucus) speak on the importance of historic preservation, meeting with Senator Ossoff's and Rep. Loudermilk's staff, and visiting the Library of Congress. The team also joined advocacy day tours, including one at Ford’s Theatre hosted by NPS. A special moment was meeting with Rep. Virginia Foxx (NC5), who stopped by to say hello. We were also proud to see part of the Georgia delegation, including student scholar Ismael Jose Gonzalez-Prieto, Kate Dutilly (Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation), and Stephanie Cherry-Farmer (Georgia Historic Preservation Office), advocating for preservation. Here are a few snapshots from an inspiring week in DC!

Maureen Meyers is the co-author of an article with Brandon Ritchison and Zoe Doubles in the most recent Journal of Anthropological Archaeology about using Bayesian chronological modeling to examine a pattern of immigration into a cultural frontier during the 14th through the 16th centuries AD in what is today southwest Virginia. Check out the full article here:

In January 2025 Joyce Rockwood Hudson, author and widow of deceased Professor Emeritus Charles M. Hudson, University of Georgia, donated about 200 volumes from his library on the history of the south to New South Associates. These volumes are a welcome addition to New South’s office libraries, and we are grateful for this generous donation.