Hello Everyone - The September meeting of the Houston Archeological Society will be held in person on Thursday, September 17, at 6:00 p.m. This will be a hybrid meeting with both an in-person gathering at the Trini Mendenhall Community Center and a Zoom component for those members who cannot join us there. The Trini Mendenhall Community Center is located at 1414 Wirt Road in the Spring Branch area of Houston. The link for the Zoom meeting will be sent to currently registered members as we get closer to the meeting date.

This meeting also serves as the Society’s Annual Meeting, when the new board of directors will be introduced by HAS President Bob Sewell.

This evenng we will welcome Dr. August “Gus” Costa, PhD, as our speaker. An independent consulting archeologist who provides specialist support in geoarchaeology, artifact, and faunal analysis, Gus earned a doctorate focusing on paleoanthropology at Indiana University, where he was a Fulbright and Leakey Foundation fellow conducting expeditions to India supported by the National Science Foundation. His academic work in India focused on the earliest human occupation of South Asia. Gus has more than twenty-five years of experience in archeology and has carried out field and lab-based work in Asia, Africa, and Europe, as well as numerous projects domestically.

Gus is an adjunct lecturer at Rice University where he has taught courses in geoarchaeology, paleontology, paleotechnology and Asian Prehistory. Gus has contributed to numerous cultural resource surveys and acted as a consulting geoarchaeologist and analyst for survey, testing, and large data recovery projects. He has served as principal geoarchaeologist and faunal analyst for the Nighthawk Bison Jump Project since May of 2022. Dr. Costa is the principal investigator for ongoing salvage investigations at the Nighthawk Bison Jump in Caprock Canyons State Park, which will be the subject of his presentation.

For more information about this program or about the Houston Archeological Society, please contact Bob Sewell at president@txhas.org.

HAS JOURNAL 144 NOW AVAILABLE

HAS Journal No. 144 is now available. The Journal Number 144 The articles will focus on the San Felipe de Austin Dig by John Lohse, Horseshoes in Texas, a Thimble from the 18th or 19th century from France found in Frosttown, and another article about Camp Kirby in Dickenson, TX, a civil war camp by Charly Gordy, ceramics from Cottonfield by Tim Perttula, and information from Mike Woods about a Butted Knife Found in Comal County. Complimentary copies may be obtained by HAS members at the monthly meetings. Non-HAS members may purchase copies through Amazon.com. Go to the HAS Journals Section for a link to the publication on the Amazon.com website. Alternatively, copies may be purchased at the HAS Monthly Meetings.

To learn more about the history behind our archeological society contact president@txhas.org.