The TAS Board of Directors and the Local Arrangements Committee for the 92nd Annual meeting of the Texas Archeological Society have confirmed that there WILL be a TAS annual meeting October 22 – 23 this year. This meeting will be held virtually Friday afternoon, October 22 and all day Saturday, October 23, via Zoom and Youtube Livestream.
On Friday night, October 22, Professional archeologist Douglas K. Boyd, Senior Archeologist with Cox|McLain Environmental Consultants will be the Public Forum Speaker for the 92nd annual meeting. His fabulous presentation will highlight a recent archeological project in downtown Houston entitled Bricks, Bottles, and Bones at Frost Town: Historic Archeology of a 140-year-old Working-Class Houston Neighborhood .
Our keynote speaker, Dr. Carolyn Boyd, Shumla Endowed Research Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University and founder of a nonprofit organization, Shumla Archaeological Research and Education Center will present on Saturday evening, October 23 at 6:30 pm. Dr. Boyd will be presenting preliminary findings generated by her latest research project, Origins and Tenacity of Myth in Archaic Period Rock Art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
More information will be posted to the website as it becomes available here: https://tas.wildapricot.org/Annual-Meeting/