Dr. Mary Glowacki, President, Archaeologist, Principal Investigator

The Pre-Columbian Archaeological Research Group was founded by Dr. Mary Glowacki and her husband Mike Lavender, as a vehicle to continue her Andean Research while serving as a state archaeologist at the Florida Bureau of Archaeological Research and later as the Bureau's Chief, for over a decade. PCARG's research has focused on the Wari, the first empire in the new world in the central highlands of the Ande's in the district of Cuzco in southern Peru. And now we turn our attention to the Archaeology of Florida and the southeast at large.

Mike Lavender makes up the other half of PCARG. Mike and Mary have a combined 50 years of experience investigating, analyzing and managing cultural resources in terrestrial and underwater settings all over the world.  From Florida's shell mounds to early Jomon sites in Japan, we bring an expertise and wealth of experience to a dynamic discipline that only comes with decades of experience.