The Texas Historical Commission's Award of Merit for Archaeology Presented to AmaTerra Environme

Archaeologist Nick Trierweiler (second from right) receives the Texas Historical Commission's Award of Merit for Archaeology for work at the new Landa Park Golf Course

Archeologists conduct shovel testing within the Landa Park Golf Course in New Braunfels, Texas.

Whew! It's been a busy summer but not so busy that we can't post this. On behalf of the company, AmaTerra Archaeology Program Manager Nick Trierweiler accepted the Texas Historical Commission's Award of Merit a short while ago. This commemorates AmaTerra's role in conducting an intensive archaeological survey of the City of New Braunfels' Landa Park Golf Course that was preparing for a large course improvement. Finds from the survey partially dictated how the new course's bunkers, water features, and other topographic elements would be designed. Also, AmaTerra worked with archaeologists from Hicks & Company (also Award of Merit recipients) in turning the Landa Park survey field data into a series of interpretive signs located at the new tees that, through the course of a round of golf, tell the story the prehistoric inhabitants of the area and the course itself.