Maximizing Education and Research Endeavors Affordably

Aztec sculpture. Photo by Lynn Baca

​​​​​​​​​​​MEREA has worked with the following great clients (click on the links for more information): 

Strategic Plans, Business Plans, and Evaluation

The Center for American Archeology pursues a mission of education, research, and public service in archeology. Its purpose is to discover and disseminate the unwritten story of earlier Americans’ lifeways, accomplishments, and changing natural environment. The Center fulfills this mission by supporting integrated programs of archeological investigation, educational outreach, and cultural stewardship. CAA is located in Kampsville, Illinois. 618-653-4316, http://www.caa-archeology.org

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​Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, award-winning archaeological research and experiential education center located in southwest Colorado.

1-800-422-8975, www.crowcanyon.org -- Check out this article from the New York Times on the work done at CCAC. chaco-native-american-archaeology.html 

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​​School for Advanced Research, internationally renowned center providing programs to encourage advanced scholarship in anthropology and related social science disciplines and the humanities and to facilitate the work of Native American scholars and artists, located in Santa Fe, New Mexico. 505-954-7200, www.sarweb.org

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Marketing and Promotion​

The Farmington Municipal Schools believes in providing Great Schools for a Great Community! Located in Farmington, New Mexico, the district serves students in 21 schools. Phone 505-324-9840, http://district.fms.k12.nm.us

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​​​The University of New Mexico Press was established in 1929 by the Regents of the University of New Mexico, UNM Press is a well-known and respected publisher in the fields of anthropology, archaeology, indigenous studies, Latin American studies, American studies, Chicana/o studies, art, architecture, and the history, literature, ecology, and cultures of the American West.  The Press imprint is overseen by a faculty committee, whose twelve members are appointed by the Faculty Senate to represent a broad spectrum of university departments. With well over one thousand titles in print, UNM Press also serves as distributor for other local and regional publishers and is an important element in enhancing the scholarly reputation and worldwide visibility of its host university. 505-277-2346, www.unmpress.com 

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​Carolyn Nordstrom, author of Global Outlaws: Crime, Money, and Power in the Contemporary World, Shadows of War: Violence, Power, and International Profiteering in the Twenty-First Century, and many others, and internationally renowned anthropologist, on an incredibly important book, Cyber Shadows: Power, Crime, and Hacking Everyone. 

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Editing and Book Services

​The Journal of Anthropological Research is a quarterly peer-reviewed scientific journal covering anthropology. It was established in 1937 as the New Mexico Anthropologist and operated as such until 1943. From 1945 until 1973 it was operated as the Southwestern Journal of Anthropology. In 1973 it was renamed yet again as the Journal for Anthropological Research. JAR is published by the University of Chicago Press. For more information, contact Professor Lawrence Guy Straus lstraus@unm.edu 

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Ted Edwards, author of Leonard Robbie Robinson: Waxahachie Warrior, on a book published by the Naval Institute Press in 2018 titled

​Seven at Santa Cruz: The Life of Fighter Ace Stanley ‘Swede’ Vejtasa. Edwards is an historian whose oral history work with World War II aviators and other veterans of twentieth-century war is driven by a desire to understand the events via firsthand accounts. Edwards has written on World War II aviators for Naval Aviation News.

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Stephen Lekson, Curator of Archaeology & Professor of Anthropology, Jubilado, University of Colorado Boulder and world-renowned archaeologist, on a book titled A Study of Southwestern Archaeology published in October 2018 by the University of Utah Press. 

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​Carl M. Davis, former U.S. Forest Service Regional Archaeologist in Missoula, Montana, on a book titled Six Hundred Generations: An Archaeological History of Montana, published by Riverbend Publishing, Helena, Montana, July 2019, now available from the publisher and from Amazon. Carl's book was the Winner of the 2020 Society for American Archaeology Popular Book Award and a finalist in the High Plains Book Awards.

Six Hundred Generations is a stunning look at the archaeological evidence of Montana's long Indigenous human history. Focusing on 12 unique archaeological sites, the book takes readers on an extraordinary journey through time, technologies, and cultures. Beginning with the First Americans who followed mammoths into this landscape, peer-awarded Montana archaeologist Carl Davis describes how Native Americans lived, evolved and flourished here for thousands of years. The engaging writing is accompanied by a rich array of photographs of archaeological sites, artifacts, and rock art, along with conceptual illustrations of Montana's Indigenous peoples by noted artist-archaeologist Eric Carlson.

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Mitchell Allen, anthropologist and publisher extraordinaire (founder of both AltaMira Press and Left Coast Press - prominent, independent academic publishers), on The Archaeology of Southwest Afghanistan, Volume 1, published by Edinburgh University Press, November, 2022.

"This is the legacy report of an extensive joint US/Afghan archaeological project in the southwest quadrant of Afghanistan: the Smithsonian Institution/ Afghanistan Institute of Archaeology Helmand-Sistan Archaeological Project, 1971-1976.

While the fieldwork was conducted in the 1970s, political events in Afghanistan over the past half century make this the first major archaeological synthesis of the region and the only one for decades to come. The Helmand River is one of the main routes between the Middle East, South, and Central Asia over the past 5,000 years and project findings reflect that cross-cultural mixing of cultures. The research identified key monuments from Bronze Age, Persian, Greek, Buddhist, Zoroastrian, and Islamic cultures, and explored the role of intensive irrigation agriculture in one of the world’s driest regions.

Volume 1 describes the 200 archaeological sites surveyed or excavated by the survey and their material culture." 

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Author Albert Sipes (Boomer-1945: My Inspired Journey an autobiography) on his first two full-length contemporary fiction novels, The Mildenhall Legacy​, available on Amazon and through the author at www.AlbertSipes.com, and The Dyer Legacy coming soon. Sipes says his "world view is tempered by a conservative upbringing and a sparkle for inquisition." Sipes and his wife Cathy live in Colorado, and Sipes continues to write.

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We've also worked with several social scientists preparing manuscripts for publication in academic journals and provided beta reads for several really good fiction book.

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