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| | Museum of Indian Arts & Culture |
 | | Santa Fe, New Mexico-"Roads to the Past, Fifty Years of Highway Archaeology," co-curated by staff of the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture, the Office of Archaeological Studies, the Poeh Arts Center, and the New Mexico Department of Transportation, tells the story of New Mexico’s cultural history as revealed by fifty years of highway archaeology. |
 | | In 1954, the Museum, the Department of Transportation, and the Federal Highway Administration began an historic collaboration to document, study, and protect archaeological sites within highway right-of-ways across New Mexico. |
 | | During the past fifty years, the highway archaeology program has recorded thousands of sites and conducted excavations at hundreds. |
| www.miaclab.org /whatsnew/2003/111003roads.html (776 words) |
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