BEARC is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to the archaeology, epigraphy, art history, ethnohistory, and historiography of Mesoamerica, the Southeastern United States, and the Andes.

[1] The center is located approximately 15 miles northeast of Asheville, North Carolina.

The Boundary End Archaeology Research Center was founded in 1997 by archaeologist George E. Stuart.

It is situated on land that served as the residence of George and Melinda Stuart beginning in 1994.

Approximately half of the library consists of the personal working library of George E. Stuart, featuring books on Maya research, site excavation reports, and hieroglyphic decipherment, as well as 19th-century histories of Yucatán and early Southeastern U.S. archaeology.