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Travis County Archeological Society
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Welcome to the Travis County Archeological Society!
Our next meeting will be Thursday, March 11th. Regular monthly meetings are currently held at Nuevo Leon's downtown location, 1501 East 6th Street. Meetings are held the second Thursday of each month, except June and December. They are free and open to the public.
The March program will feature Linda Ellis of PBS&J speaking on:
Ground, Battered, and Polished Stone Tools From the Ear Spool Site (41TT653)
The Ear Spool site was a Late Caddo Titus Phase domestic farmstead located just north of the Cypress Creek/White Oak Creek watershed boundary. A total of 109 ground, battered, and polished stone tools were recovered from the site. Detailed analysis of the assemblage identified a variety of tool types indicative of a diverse range of activities, providing a unique opportunity to link recovered artifacts with actual resource utilization of the Caddo peoples that lived at the site.
Linda W. Ellis holds a BA and MA in Anthropology from the University of Texas at San Antonio. She has more than 20 years of archeological experience in Texas, Louisiana, and New Mexico. Since 2007, Ms. Ellis has served as PBS&J's Archaeology Laboratory Director, providing oversight on the day-to-day operation of the Laboratory and conducting artifact analyses. Ms. Ellis's primary areas of specialization are the analysis of prehistoric ceramics and ground stone.
Ms. Ellis is a member of the Register of Professional Archeologists. From 1996-2000, she served as Assistant Editor of the Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society. In 1998, she was a recipient of THC Award for Excellence in Archeological Research.
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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