Internship at the Prehistory Research Project: Lithic & Faunal Analysis During the Spring semester of 2016, I interned at the Prehistory Research Project. The Prehistory Research Project is the Gault School of Archaeological Research (GSAR) project headquarters at Texas State University. GSAR is a nonprofit created in 2006 in an effort to conserve and properly… Continue Reading Ashley Eden Hill, Gault School of Archaeology
Curry Blaha, Morton Shell Mound – Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum
I worked on two projects during my internship. First was The Morton Shell Mound in Iberia Parish, Louisiana where I organized and repaired storage boxes, and where I sorted, identified and tagged human skeletal remains. The second one was at Mississippi State Asylum Cemetery Project in Jackson, Mississippi where I transcribed patient intake and discharge… Continue Reading Curry Blaha, Morton Shell Mound – Mississippi State Lunatic Asylum
Victoria Lanas, the Witte Museum
INTERNSHIP WITH THE WITTE MUSEUM This final report outlines in detail my three-month internship during the fall of 2015 at the Witte Museum in San Antonio with their curator of Anthropology and Health, Dr. Bryan Bayles. I participated in museum meetings, helped collect research for an academic essay, observed museum programs for kids, and cataloged.… Continue Reading Victoria Lanas, the Witte Museum
Priscilla Ortiz, Center for Archaeological Studies
Repository Experiences at CAS The Students at CAS usually sit on lab tables covered in protective paper hunched over boxes of lithics while sorting through debitage and projectile points. When their not getting their fingers covered in grime, one can find them typing away, entering numerous artifacts in Pastperfect, a museum cataloging software. In addition,… Continue Reading Priscilla Ortiz, Center for Archaeological Studies
Joshua Flores-Manges, Center for Archaeological Studies
In the fall of 2015, I worked as an intern at the Center for Archaeological Studies (CAS) at Texas State. I chose to intern at the CAS to learn how to curate archaeological materials and to develop skills that will help to pursue a career in the archaeological field. I was under the supervision of… Continue Reading Joshua Flores-Manges, Center for Archaeological Studies