Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists

and

           The Wyoming Archaeological Society       

-March 22-24, 2012 CCPA conference in Durango, CO. Click here for more information.


-April 18-22, 2012 SAA 77th Annual Meeting will be held in Memphis, TN. Click here for more information.

2012 SPRING MEETING INFORMATION

April 27-29, 2012

Gillette, Wyoming


The Spring 2012 Wyoming Archaeological Society and the Wyoming Association of Professional Archaeologists meetings are scheduled for April 27-29 in Gillette.  Denise Tugman, Cher Burgess, and Alice Tratebas are working on arrangements.  Dr. Douglas Scott will be the banquet speaker and will discuss his work on Sand Creek and the subsequent Indian War of 1865.

 

The conference hotel will be the Best Western Tower West Lodge at 109 North Highway 14/16 in Gillette.  A block of 30 rooms has been reserved for the spring meeting at a charge of $69.99/Night.  Reservations are now available (307-686-2210).



We will be holding a silent auction to help defray expenses, so if anyone has items to donate, please let us know. The lead person organizing the meeting is Denise Tugman. She can be contacted at Land Surveying Incorporated - 307-682-1661 or via email at dtugman [at] lsi-inc.us

SHUMLA CALENDAR OF EVENTS

-March 26-30, 2012 SHUMLA's Pecos Experience: Archaic Art and Archeology of the Lower Pecos


-March 26-30, 2012 SHUMLA’s Pecos Experience: Art and Archeology of the Lower Pecos


-June 5-29, 2012 SHUMLA’s Field Methods in Rock Art Field School



A WEEK IN WEST TEXAS
SHUMLA’s research team and Dr. Jim Keyser have launched a comparative study of scratched and incised imagery evidenced in the rock art of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands and the Columbia Plateau. This year, participants in Pecos Experience have the unique opportunity to join these experts as they investigate this promising new avenue of rock art research. This is your chance to explore the canyons of the Lower Pecos, to expand your vision of the meaning and function of rock art, and to experience the excitement of making connections through discovery.
For more details, visit our Web-site http://www.SHUMLA.org/, contact the office at programs@SHUMLA.org or call (432) 292-4848.

 

 -June 5-29, 2012 SHUMLA’s Field Methods in Rock Art Field School (registration deadline: 


-May 14, 2012

A ROCK ART FIELD SCHOOL

Are you a looking for an amazing field school opportunity? Every summer SHUMLA offers its Field Methods in Rock Art field school course. This year, this unique experience will be held from 5-29 June 2012. Enroll to spend four intense weeks exploring desert canyons and recording world-class rock art while earning three graduate or six undergraduate college credit hours through Texas State University. You will learn:

- How to establish a field research design and data collection protocols
- Current theories regarding the meaning and function of rock art

- Rock art recording methods, laboratory procedures, and data analysis
- The archeology of the Lower Pecos, hunter-gatherer lifeways, and foraging adaptation
 

For more details, visit our Web-site http://www.SHUMLA.org/, contact the office at programs@SHUMLA.org or call (432) 292-4847.

Angel Johnson

Research Assistant

 

SHUMLA Archeological

Research and Education Center

117 Sanderson Street

PO Box 627

Comstock, TX 78837

 

830.719.5750 cell

432.292.4848 office

432.292.4849 fax

 

ajohnson@shumla.org

www.shumla.org