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2025 Touring Season is now open for reservations.

The Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project is a project to protect a place.

MPPP is exclusively organized for charitable and educational purposes, including the protection and preservation of archaeological features and the environment and cultural landscape of the Mesa Prieta region of the northern Rio Grande Valley through documentation, education, outreach and promotion of heritage stewardship.

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Please welcome our new Project Archaeologist . . . 
Jerod Roberts

Jerod brings a vast amount of experience with pictographs to Mesa Prieta.  Having worked at the Shumla Rock Art and Research Education Center for five years and earning his Masters Degree in Anthropology he welcomes the opportunity to "work in a new cultural setting".                                        MORE

DATA STORAGE UPDATES!

January, 2025 MPPP Newsletter
HERE

2025 SUMMER YOUTH INTERN PROGRAM

June 9 - 20, 2025
Application Deadline 
May 5, 2025​

 Are you interested in archaeology,
exploring the outdoors, petroglyphs
​and New Mexico history?
Click HERE for more information and applications



2025 Annual Petroglyph Recorder and Docent Training

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The Archaeological Conservancy and Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project presents:

The Living Landscape of Mesa Prieta in Northern New Mexico
featuring
The Cottonwood Petroglyph Preserve
and
Sagrada Jardin de Piedra Preserve
newly acquired Petroglyph Preserves on Mesa Prieta
WATCH HERE

WE ARE EXCITED TO ANNOUNCE THAT MESA PRIETA PETROGLYPH PROJECT
CAN NOW ACCEPT DONATIONS OF STOCK AND CRYPTOCURRENCY!
We've partnered with engiven, the #1 donation platform for complex donations to non-profits.  Now you can easily donate to Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project with a gift of stock, or cryptocurrency using Bitcoin, Ethereum, and other cryptocurrencies. 

Click the DONATE STOCK button, or DONATE USING CRYPTOCURRENCY button below
to go to the MPPP donation portal at engiven.com.
Be part of the legacy - donate now to protect the Mesa!

Mesa Prieta Petroglyph Project Volunteers and Staff
Make it happen!