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• 2025 Archeobotany Academy

  • Start
    April 05, 2025
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  • End
    April 06, 2025
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  • Location
    Kerrville, Texas
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  People and Plants is a two-day Texas Archeology Academy to learn how to recover plant remains from archeological sites and how to interpret their past roles in human society through historical accounts, experimentation, and traditional knowledge. Classroom and field sessions for the Academy will be in Kerrville on April 5-6, 2025.

  Join archeologists to learn about past Texas landscapes, plant foods, plant medicine, and how people tended the land. The course will include a brief overview of the many subdisciplines of archeobotany, how each contributes to reconstructions of past practices, and the strengths and drawbacks of each.

  Class time will be split between a traditional classroom and a ranch near Kerrville where participants will help construct an earth oven, make medicine, and learn to read plants. The class will conclude by opening the earth oven and enjoying the foods we’ve cooked.

  
  

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• 2025 Lithics Academy

  • Start
    April 12, 2025
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  • End
    April 13, 2025
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  • Location
    Austin, Texas
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  The 2025 Lithics Academy is a two-day Texas Archeology Academy to learn how to recognize stone artifacts, how they are produced, and interpreting stone artifacts and patterns in the archeological record.

  Classroom sessions for the Academy will be held at in Austin on April 12-13, 2025.

  Participants will learn to identify stone artifacts and to interpret basic data through exercises in sorting, classifying, and measuring. Learn the process of making a stone tool from cobble to finished product, the uses of stone tools, and the formation of use-wear and breakage patterns.

  Mr. Chris Ringstaff, experimental archeologist at the Texas Department of Transportation, will lead the workshop. Dr. Robert Lassen of AmaTerra Environmental Consultants, and Dr. Sergio Ayala will be co-instructors.

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• 2025 TAS Field School Registration

  • Start
    June 14, 2025
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  • End
    June 21, 2025
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  • Location
    Milam and Robertson Counties, Texas

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  In 2025, the Texas Archeological Society (TAS) invites all current and future members to attend our annual summer field school in Milam and Robertson Counties, Texas. The week-long program offers activities and learning opportunities for all ages and experience levels, including excavation techniques, survey and laboratory methods, and special training for newcomers and teachers. The TAS website contains detailed information about what to expect at field school and specifics about this year’s archeological goals.

  Please note that by registering you are indicating a willingness to sign a legal release for the event. The required legal release is available for your review here.

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