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NTAS Monthly Meetings are held on the 2nd Thursday of the month, at 7:00pm except in June and December. The monthly meetings are located at the University of North Texas Health Science Center in the Research & Education Building, Room 114. The NTAS meetings are hybrid meetings held in-person and offered via Zoom.
NTAS meetings are a staple of our membership. In these meetings, we discuss NTAS Announcements, which include upcoming volunteer opportunities, upcoming NTAS events, upcoming Texas Archeology Society (TAS) events, and each month we feature a guest speaker. Our guest speakers deliver programs on various archeological topics. Past topics include geoarcheology, bioarcheology, regional archeological sites and topics, and more. NTAS meetings are open to the general public.
Guests are welcome to join all NTAS monthly meetings in-person or via Zoom. To receive the Zoom link for our programs, please email info@ntxas.org .
Guest Speaker: Mike McBride
Abstract: Since the summer of 2018, the Hill Country Archeological Association (HCAA) has performed
continuous field work investigations at Crying Woman Ranch (CWR), 41KR754, a multi- component site in western Kerr County, Texas. My presentation will review the 5 years of HCAA’s work and artifacts recovered from the site, documenting occupations from a 19 th century farmstead, back though all periods of Late Prehistoric and Archaic, and into the Mid to Late Paleoindian Periods.
I will mainly focus on new data which supports and broadens our previously reported evidence of earth oven technology in association with Paleoindian occupations at the site, and the advent of earth oven cooking facilities in central Texas. This evidence includes new radiocarbon dates, and newly recovered projectile points of Paleoindian period types (St. Mary’s Hall, Golondrina, Angostura, and thus far unidentified lanceolates). Additionally, we have ongoing excavations into sediment layers below the deeply buried earth oven structures. These have exposed several
new hearths at various depths of 0.2 to 0.5 meters directly below the well-defined earth oven structures. A date of 10,250calBP has been reported for one of these new features, although no diagnostic lithics have been recovered thus far. Prospective interpretations for this complex stratigraphy with Mike McBride.
About: Mike McBride
Bio: Career A lifelong Texan, Mike dedicated over 45 years to pharmacy practice and management. He is the founder of Rx Partners Pharmacy, a specialty pharmacy company with operations in San Antonio, Dallas, and Houston. He retired in 2018. Archaeological Experience Mike is currently Past-President of the Hill Country Archeological Association in Kerrville, Texas.
Previously, he was President and Board Chairman of the Dallas Archeological Society (now merged with North Texas Archeological Society), 2000-2005. Mike is also on the Board of Directors of the Gault School for Archaeological Research. He has been Principal Investigator for archaeological field projects in Dallas, Kerr, and Gillespie Counties, Texas. Currently, he is Principal Investigator for HCAA’s Crying Woman Ranch Project in Kerr County, focusing on Paleoindian Period occupations at the site.
Since 1984, he has been an ongoing independent researcher in Maya and Mesoamerican Studies focusing on lithic technologies, and has published on the ethnopharmacology of psychoactive agents in ancient Mesoamerican cultures. He has collaborated in field projects in the Yucatan Peninsula, Central
Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize with research focusing on lithic technology, and documentation and analysis of chert and obsidian sources in Belize, the Yucatan Peninsula, and Central Mexico.
Currently, he is co-developer, with Dr. Jon Lohse, of the Pine Ridge Preceramic Project in Northern Belize. PRPP research goals include recovery, documentation, analysis, and curation of Paleoindian and Preceramic Period artifacts, which will greatly add to evidence of the earliest human migrations in this
region as well as throughout the Americas. Mike lives near the beautiful Pedernales River in Fredericksburg, Texas with his wife Connie.
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