PCRG (Paleocultural Research Group)

02/12/2026

PCRG Research Director Mark Mitchell was recently interviewed about rock art research in southeastern Colorado by Colorado Public Radio affiliate KRCC. His interview (audio and text) is linked below, which includes a link to a second story about rock art in southern Colorado.

You asked about rock art on the Front Range and in the Rio Grande Basin, so we got answers.

11/19/2025

Colorado Gives Day is here! This year we are raising funds to a support a field research project in the Vogel Canyon area, near where we worked in 2023. Learn more about the project and the fundraiser at https://www.coloradogives.org/story/PCRG2025!

06/17/2025

That’s a wrap on our first session of 2025! We tested multiple sites in southeastern Colorado as part of our multi-year research effort in partnership with the Colorado State Land Board and . Thanks to a fantastic crew for sticking out some hot days and doing great work! We’re looking forward to a short break and back at it next week!

12/04/2024

Today is Giving Tuesday, meaning only 7 more days left for our Specialized Analysis Fundraiser! Visit https://www.coloradogives.org/story/Pcrg2024 to learn more about our 2024 fundraiser and donate today!

Help fund additional specialized analyses that are beyond the normal budget for several projects!

12/05/2023

is tomorrow and we're nearing our goal to maximize the matching fund provided by our very generous partners! And exceeding our goal means we can do that much more for the Holt and Picture Canyons project! Click the link to learn more about the project and donate today!

Support our efforts to update 50-year-old archaeological site records in Holt and Picture Canyons!

11/01/2023

Early Giving for starts today! Click to learn more about our 2023 fundraiser supporting a field project at Picture and Holt canyons in southeastern Colorado!

Support our efforts to update 50-year-old archaeological site records in Holt and Picture Canyons!

08/27/2023

08/21/2023

Great summary of new research by Kelton Meyer on dating sites in the high country—and it includes a link to the full open access article! Way to go KAM, glad to have you in the PCRG family!

CSU Anthropology PhD student Kelton Meyer shows the power of lichen for archaeological dating

08/20/2023

Thats a wrap on the 2023 PCRG field season! What a year it was, collecting some really great data on archaeological sites, meeting some incredible new people and welcoming them to our “field family”, and getting to work in some pretty amazing places. Thank you to everyone for making it such a successful summer!

07/06/2023

The Wyoming Archaeology Fair will be on Saturday, September 9, 2023 at the Wyoming Territorial Prison State Historic Site . We can't wait to see everyone there!

07/06/2023

02/11/2023

Great story, thanks for sharing your experience, Doug! We’re so grateful your naïveté led you to the Beacon project and many years of great friendship!

To loosely translate from Norwegian to English: fri = free, lufts = air’s, liv = life The English equivalent= Outdoor Life I didn’t know it at the time, but a stone artifact would change the direction of the next sixteen years of my life. A story in the June 30, 2006, edition of The Minot […]