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Welcome to the Travis County Archeological Society! Ron Ralph is among the leading cave archeologists in Texas. He began studying caves and archeology in California in 1963 and has worked extensively throughout the southwestern United States and much of northern Mexico. He worked 13 years as an archeological consultant before joining the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department (TPWD) for 21 years. Since retiring from TPWD in 1997, he has returned to consulting and has worked as an independent contractor since 2000. During his tenure at TPWD, he first worked with the Master Planning Branch, where he inventoried new parklands for cultural resources, assisted in biological research, and wrote sections of many park master plans. Later, he was the Resource Specialist for Region 2 (north-central Texas), responsible for inventory, assessment, stabilization, artifact curation and protection of both cultural and natural resources in 12 state parks, including monitoring and contracting for biological research. He has taught nearly 30 archeological and speleological training courses and workshops, presented more than 30 papers at conferences and published more than 50 research reports. He is a director and office manager of the Texas Speleological Survey and served as President of the Texas Archeological Society in 2005. He currently chairs the TAS Reports and Curation Committee. [Ron modestly suggested we cut his bibliography to a mere two sentences, but the web maven believes his contributions deserve the full treatment.] 
Ron Ralph draws a profile wall at the 2005 TAS Field School near Paris, Texas. If you are in the Austin area on one of our second-Thursday-of-the-month meeting nights, please drop in to see what's going on. More about our monthly meetings at http://travis.txarch.org/calendar.htm.
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