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"Archeology is not what you find, it's what you find out."  David Hurst Thomas




WHO WE ARE...since 1928

The TAS is people of all ages and all levels of experience taking part in research and training through Academies, Field School, and the Annual Meeting.

TAS promotes and encourages: 

  • learning about Texas archeology
  • scientific archeological research
  • preservation and conservation of materials and sites
  • interpretation and publication of archeological data
  • building a community

TAS does not condone:

  • buying and selling artifacts for commercial purposes
  • disregard of proper archeological research techniques
  • willful destruction or distortion of archeological data

The TAS is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization.  

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Upcoming events

  • 2025 Archeobotany Academy

    • April 05, 2025
    • April 06, 2025
    • Kerrville, Texas
    • 7
    Register

    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

    • April 12, 2025
    • April 13, 2025
    • Austin, Texas
    • 16
    Register

    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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SPONSORS







Previous sponsors include: The Brown Foundation, The Clements Foundation, The Hamman Foundation, The Trull Foundation, and The Summerfield G. Roberts Foundation.

Funding for organizational expenses has been provided to Texas Archeological Society from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the 2020 Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security (CARES) Act of 2020.


Texas Archeological Society

tasoffice@txarch.org


Texas Archeological Society, Department of Anthropology, Texas State University, 601 University Drive, San Marcos, Texas 78666-4616

(512) 265-5324

The TAS Office hours are Tuesday and Thursday from 10a - 2p. If you are trying to contact the TAS Office by phone, please leave a message with your contact information. The number can also receive text messages.


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