REGISTRATION OPENS JUNE 2023

Call for papers

Banquet Speaker

Dr. Ashley Lemke

Dr. Ashley Lemke is an Associate Professor at the University of Texas in Arlington and former Chair of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology (www.acuaonline.org). She is a leading researcher on the archaeology of hunter-gatherers. She has worked extensively on both terrestrial and underwater archaeological projects from the Lower Paleolithic in Europe to 19th-century Nunamiut archaeological sites in the Arctic. She is an expert on submerged ancient sites in the Americas and has researched such sites in the Gulf of Mexico, Great Lakes, and Atlantic Ocean. She led projects on terrestrial sites in Texas and has worked at sites across North America and Europe, including Romania, Germany, and Spain.

Dr. Lemke received a PHD in Anthropology in 2016, and an MA in Anthropology in 2010, from the University of Michigan. She graduated from the University of Texas in 2008 with a BA in Anthropology and a minor in Classical Civilization. One of her more recent publications is The Architecture of Hunting: The Built Environment of Hunter-Gatherers and Its Impact on Mobility, Property, Leadership, and Labor, published by Texas A&M University Press in 2022.

 Public Forum Speaker

Doug Boyd

Doug Boyd was raised in the small town of Tulia in the Texas Panhandle. He received a BA degree in General Studies-Archeology from West Texas State University in 1983 and an MA degree in Anthropology from Texas A&M University in 1986. While his career has taken him all across Texas and beyond, the prehistory of the Tex-as Panhandle remains his passion. He has published more than 150 CRM reports and articles for books, pro-fessional journals, and popular magazines.

One of his more recent books is a collaboration with John Erickson, Porch Talk: A Conversation About Ar-chaeology in the Texas Panhandle. He received the TAS Fellow award in 2022 in recognition of the 20 plus years he has served as the Youth Program Director at Field School.