2026-07-06T17:34:38-06:00 2025-12-31 884121894 KP Accounting 6 Division Street Somerville NJ 08876 990 2025-01-01 273432429 Sacred Sites Research Inc % Paula Loendorf SACR 5056970913 6220 Mojave St NW Albuquerque NM 87120 PAULA LOENDORF Treasurer 5056970913 2026-03-18 true RUSHI KOTHIA P01967961 9083008255 2026-07-06 2025 2025-03-06 01:10:19Z 245692 false X X 2010 NM Protect North American Indian sacred sites. 7 7 0 0 0 3950 5000 255593 240072 620 0 259543 245692 0 0 0 0 0 114651 85346 114651 85346 144892 160346 264065 424411 0 264065 424411 Protect North American Indian sacred sites. false false 85003 Identify, protect, and preserve North American Indian sacred sites. Despite experiencing a considerable delay due to the US Government shutdown, Sacred Sites Research, Inc. (SSR) had a successful year. Below is a summary of our key accomplishments. An important change in SSR board membership is that Julie Francis and Mary Hopkins agreed to serve on the board. They replace Carolyn McClellan and Bonita Newman. We thank Carolyn and Bonita for their service and welcome Julie and Mary. A key task was undertaken on the Carlsbad project, now in its third year with SSR and Versar, Inc. The task was to revisit a half-dozen sites in Lincoln National Forest to collect information that was missing from the initial recording in 2024. Although we then planned to start recording major sites in Carlsbad National Park, we are unable to access the park in the government shutdown. Fortunately, however, Guadalupe National Park was partially open, and we were able to reach and record eight sites in that park. So, while we planned but failed to get to 10 to 12 sites in Carlsbad National Park, we did get to 8 sites in Guadalupe National Park. Most of the year was spent finalizing panel drawings and writing the reports for the sites where fieldwork is already completed. Some of these are from large sites like Last Chance Canyon with 38 panels while others are small with a single panel like White Oaks Spring. Once panel drawings are complete the descriptions are finished and draft copies of the site write-ups are sent in for editorial review and preparation for publication. SSR taught a workshop for the American Rock Art Research Association in Visalia, California. Laurie White, Karen Steelman and Lawrence Loendorf were the instructors for the workshop, which was well attended with 25 participants. Carl Davis and Sara Scott were recipients of a SSR award to record an important rock art site south of Dillon, Montana. Mark Willis was a major participant in that project where the final panel drawings were completed by Daivd Kaiser. Davis and Scott are in the process of completing the site description and preparing the final report. A notable accomplishment was the publication of a book titled Ten Steps for Recording Pictograph and Petroglyph Sites: Methods and Technologies. Written by Nancy Stone and Lawrence Loendorf, the book was published by University of Utah Press. In another effort, Lawrence Loendorf and Marvin Rowe travelled from New Mexico to Pueblo, Colorado to collect a sample of the paint on a pictograph that is part of a display in the Pueblo Museum. We then transferred the sample to Karen Steelman who processed it for a plasma oxidation date. A list of published works and presentations by board members is below: (Listed by lead authors) Publications Board members highlighted Loendorf, Lawrence, Karen Steelman and Carolynne Merrell 2025 New Radiocarbon Ages for the Painted Coulee and Spring Gulch Pictograph Sites. Archaeology in Montana 36(1):35-49. Loendorf, Lawrence, Julie E. Francis, William Eckerle, Spencer Pelton and Mark Willis 2024 The Wold Rock Art District, Wyoming(48JO4513): Geoarchaeology, changing landscapes and estimating ages of rock art. Plains Anthropologist 69(270):102-127. Neely, James, Blas Castellon-Huerta, Samuel Wilson, Mark Willis and Chester Walker The Scorpion Mound Complex: An Effigy Mound Site with Possible Functional/Ceremonial Significance in the Tehuacn Valley of Puebla, Mxico. August 2025. Ancient Mesoamerica. DOI: 10.1017/S0956536125000070. Mark D. Willis and Satoru Murata LiDAR Mapping of Areas in the Vicinity of Biscayne and Rock Stone Pond. Investigations of the Belize River East Archaeology Project: A Report of the 2024 Field Season. Marieka Brouwer Burg and Eleanor Harrison-Buck, Editors. Occasional Paper, No. 13. Department of Anthropology University of New Hampshire Report submitted to the Institute of Archaeology, National Institute of Culture and History, Belmopan, Belize 2025 Koenig, Charles W., Amanda M. Castaeda, Mark D. Willis, and Myles R. Miller Rock Imagery Survey of North Mountain at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site, El Paso County, Texas. Versar Cultural Resources Report No. 942.1EP. Texas Antiquities Permit 31975. Presentations and other SSR related endeavors Lawrence Loendorf 2025 Pictograph Scenes that Compare to Tabira Black and White Pottery. Paper delivered at the Society for American Archaeology, Denver, CO. 2025 Pictographs, Petroglyphs, Pots and Shield-bearing Warriors. PowerPoint presentation for the Albuquerque Archaeological Society, Albuquerque, NM. 2025 Shields and Shield-bearing Warrior Motif Pictographs and Petroglyphs. PowerPoint presentation, Pueblo History Museum, Pueblo, CO. Laurie White 2025 Recording Petroglyphs and Pictographs. Northern Colorado Archeological Society, 2025 Recording Petroglyphs and Pictographs. Professional Artists Group Presentation, via Zoom Laurie White and Lawrence Loendorf 2025 Guadalupe Pictographs: Descriptions and Possible Uses by Ancient Hunters. American Rock Art Research Association. Annual Meeting, Visalia, CA. Julie Francis 2025 Led tours of the Legend Rock State Petroglyph site for the Meeteetse Museum. 2025 Guided Ann Stephens to a successful defense of her thesis which was based on a spatial analysis of the rock art in the Bighorn Basin and her MA degree at the University of Wyoming. Mark Willis 2025 Digital Approaches to Rock Art Research: Innovations and Applications (World Archaeology Conference, Darwin, Australia) Mark helped organize and presented a paper at this conference. Amanda Castaneda, Charles W. Koenig, Mark D. Willis, and Myles R. Miller 2025 Summary of Phase 1 Rock Imagery Survey at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site. Paper presented at the 96th Annual Texas Archeological Society Meeting, McAllen, Texas. Amanda Castaneda, Charles W. Koenig, Mark D. Willis, and Myles R. Miller Summary of Phase 1 Rock Imagery Survey at Hueco Tanks State Park and Historic Site. Paper presented at the 24th Biennial Jornada Conference, El Paso, Texas Workshops Amanda Castaneda was one of the instructors for the Ethnobotany Academy hosted by the Texas Archeological Society in April 2025. 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Committee meeting documentation Part VI line 8b There are no committees of the board. Form 990 governing body review Part VI line 11 The 990 is provided to the BOD for review prior to filing. Conflict of interest policy compliance Part VI line 12c In connection with any actual or possible conflict of interest, an interested person must disclose the existence of financial interest and be given the opportunity to disclose all material facts to the directors. BOD members are informed of the policy at the start of their term and expected to report any possible conflicts as they arise. CEO executive director top management comp Part VI line 15a There are no paid employees. Contractors are hired by the BOD and contracts are reviewed by the BOD officers prior to signing and payment. Other officer or key employee compensation Part VI line 15b There are no paid officers or key employees. All contractors are hired by the BOD and contracts are reviewed by the BOD officers. Governing documents etc available to public Part VI line 19 Governing documents are available upon request to the BOD. List of other fees for services expenses Part IX line 11g SSR has no employees. All research under our primary exempt purpose is conducted by contractors. 100% of the outside services expense is contractor compensation for research fellows.