Spring Lake, located on the Texas State University campus in San Marcos, Texas, boasts a rich environment and history that includes the 2nd largest natural spring system in the state (and the former home of Ralph the Swimming Pig at the Aquarena Springs Resort and Hotel.) Excavations at Spring Lake indicate that Paleo-Indians were regularly… Continue Reading Lee Reissig, The Center for Archaeological Studies
I previously had the experience of working as a volunteer at the Gault site when I was a student at Austin Community College in 2012. The main purpose of my internship was to decide which academic path I would like to follow, archaeology or forensic anthropology. I chose archaeology because it is a topic of… Continue Reading Bradley Hernandez, The Prehistory Research Project
I conducted an internship with the Director of Institutional Research at Texas State University during the 2013-2014 academic year. The Office of Institutional Research primarily functions to provide collected institutional data, such as enrollment history, to University administration and government officials. I specifically worked with the OIR director on a project he was co-chairing called… Continue Reading Marilee Ratliff, Office of Institutional Research
I chose to complete my internship at the Texas Historical Commission in Austin, Texas to learn as much about the curation process as possible and try to do a little bit of everything. I learned from hands on experience about the steps necessary in the field to facilitate curation and how to create artifact inventories,… Continue Reading Amanda Franklin, Texas Historical Commission – Archaeology Division
View the full report here. In the spring of 2014, I interned at the Curation Lab of the Historic Sites Division of the Texas Historical Commission (THC). I chose this internship to learn more about historical archaeology and the curation of archaeological materials, aspects of archaeology with which I had only rudimentary experience through textbooks.… Continue Reading Matt Larsen, Texas Historical Commission – Historic Sites Division