Join us for the 2025 TAS Field School in Milam and Robertson Counties June 14-21.  We will focus primarily on the survey of Red Mountain (also known as Sugarloaf Mountain) and the surrounding areas. Red Mountain is a very important place for the Tonkawa people, who recently reclaimed this ancestral land and will maintain it with the help of the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail Association. 

The 2025 field school will be primarily survey-based, with limited excavation for the Youth Group and an exploratory team led by Dr. Tamra Walter. Lab work will focus on existing collections, providing in-depth lab activities such as sorting, data entry, analysis, and photography.

For more information about Red Mountain, see this article from the Austin American-Statesman: https://www.statesman.com/story/news/history/2023/12/28/tonkawa-tribe-central-texas-sacred-sugarloaf-mountain-native-americans-herzog-milam-county/71903887007/

For more information about the El Camino Real de los Tejas National Historic Trail: https://www.nps.gov/elte/planyourvisit/texas.htm

Keep an eye out for more field school information on the website and in the spring Newsletter.