Not a Pretty Picture: An Internship Experience with Human Decomposition In the Spring of 2015, I helped complete weather data spreadsheets with FACTS, or Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State, director Dr. Daniel Wescott. He had been working on a side project that was focused on what variables affect the rate of decomposition based on… Continue Reading Laura Torres, Forensic Anthropology Center at Texas State
Tag: Spring 2015
Sarah Chestnut, Center for Archaeological Studies
Enlightening the Avocational Archaeologist In the Spring semester of 2015, I participated in an internship with the Center for Archaeological Studies (CAS) at Texas State University. My internship was a curation position, where I organized and curated artifacts belonging to the Tom Miller Collection acquired by CAS in 2012. This report will describe the CAS… Continue Reading Sarah Chestnut, Center for Archaeological Studies
Matt Flores, Prehistory Research Project
Prehistory Research Project Internship: Discovery of North America’s Past The internship began in the spring semester of 2015 with the Prehistory Research Project located at the Gault School of Archaeological Research at Texas State University. My responsibilities included the daily organization and archaeological curation of artifacts as directed by the lab manager and project director.… Continue Reading Matt Flores, Prehistory Research Project
Lindsey Robertson, Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center
In the spring of 2015, I interned with the Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center (HCWC) as a primary prevention educator. Over the course of my internship, I helped co-facilitate small groups in the middle schools and high schools in Hays and Caldwell Counties, researched primary prevention, and participated in events that were either hosted by HCWC or… Continue Reading Lindsey Robertson, Hays-Caldwell Women’s Center
Austin Parisi, Center for Archaeological Studies
An Internship at CAS: The Good, the Bad, the Ugly This semester I have been interning at Texas State’s Center for Archaeological Studies located in room 120 of the Trinity building on the Texas State campus. The Center for Archaeological Studies, or CAS, is a curation facility which accepts collections from outside sources such as… Continue Reading Austin Parisi, Center for Archaeological Studies