Symposium Papers: Below are the titles of the papers presented at each symposium, arranged by the bulletin in which they were published. To view a bulletin or a particular article, contact the historical society to schedule a time.
( First Regional Symposium Bulletin (1965) Archaic Sites in Eastern New Mexico Jim Warnica Petroglyphs of Garza County, Texas Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. A New Method of Projectile Point Classification and Site Survey Calvin B. Smith Cultural Traits of the El Paso Phase of The Mogollon Vernon Brook The Merchant Site (A Mogollon Site) Robert H. Leslie Proposed Eastern Extension of the Jornada Branch of the Mogollon John A. Corley
Second Regional Symposium Bulletin (1966) (No copy in archives)
Third Regional Symposium Bulletin (1967) A Preliminary Report of an Early Man Site in West Texas Jay C. Blaine A Probable Jornada Burial in Garza County, Texas Emmett Shedd The Milnesand Site--Revisited James M. Warnica and Ted Williamson Recent Excavations at Hot Well Site (EPAS-3) Leslie Davis A Multiple Fire Pit Excavation--41 LU 5 Claude H. Brown A Crockett County Shelter (41 CX 10) Aaron D. Riggs, Jr.
Fourth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1968) A Preliminary Report on a Crocked County, Texas Shelter 41 CX 12 Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. Parker Ranch Ring Midden No. 1 41 CX 30 Arnold E. Sommer Excavation at Red Bluff Shelter (Sotol Site) Crockett County, Texas (41 CX 8) Dessamae Lorrain A Preliminary Report on the Baker Shelter in Val Verde County James H. Word A Surface Site in Scurry County (41 SC) John and Fern Portis and Pat and Nelda Bills Preliminary Report on Handprints and Pictographs of Eastern Pecos County, Texas Evelyn Walters A Preliminary Report on the Salvage of an El Paso Phase House Ruin (EPAS-53) John W. Green Dawson County Historical Burial R. A. Bennett The Monument Spring Site (LCAS No. D16) Robert Leslie
Fifth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1969) Preliminary Report on Site EPAS-60: An El Paso House Ruin John W. Green The Cultural Implications of the Archaeology of Billy the Kid Cave Michael L. Kunz Yellowhouse Crossing Mesa Petroglyphs Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. Bishop Cap Cave Leslie Davis What is the Significance of the Southwestern Ceramics Found on the Llano Estacado? Michael B. Collins Investigations at the Rancho El Espia Site: Northwestern Chihuahua Gordon L. Fritz Bloom Mound Jack A. Ross By-Laws of Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies
Sixth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1971) Gresham Lake Site (41 MT 3) Mrs. A. W. Breeding Further Studies of Rock Art Sites in Pecos and Crockett Counties Evelyn Walters The Walker Site: A Food Preparation Area in Coke, County, Texas (41 CK 137) Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. Morgan Creek Mortar Camp Ronnie A. Shawn and Arnold E. Sommer Some Hypotheses About Prehistoric Settlement in the Tularosa-Hueco Bolson Between A. D. 1250-1350 Vernon Ralph Brooks Application of Probability Theory To Recurring Variables in Some El Paso Phase Archaeological Sites Elbert Bassham Preliminary Report of an El Paso Brownware Site Mack Hill Progress Report on the Excavation of Stie EPAS-49 and a Preliminary Report on the Excavation of Shelter One, White Rock Cave John W. Green Big Spring Site Arnold E. Sommer
Seventh Regional Symposium Bulletin (1972) The Petree Site: SPAS-MT-30 Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. Token and Multi-Notched Points of the South Plains of Texas W. C. Watts Effigy Alyce Hart English Inscription Stone Alyce Hart Ceramics, Pecos River Drainage, Pecos and Crockett Counties. Texas Rose Mary Rogers King Mountain Shelter R. A. Shawn The Temporal Point: A New Diagnostic Type Vernon Ralph Brook An Attempt to Determine Diagnostic Attributes of Points for Horizons and Regions Robert Campbell and Eduardo Mimiaga The Laguna Plata Site: L. C. A. S. C-10-C LA-5148 John Runyan The Windmill Site: (41CX57) Arnold E. Sommer
Eighth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1973) Salt Lake Burial Ronnie A. Shawn Recent Archaeological Investigations at Hueco Tanks State Park John V. Davis A Stone Human Figurine From Coleman County, Texas Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. Pottery Types of the SWFAS Area John W. Runyan and John A. Hedrick Lobo Valley Petroglyph Site Rose Mary Rogers
Ninth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1974) Update on Archaeological Investigations on Hueco Tanks State Park Thomas J. Martin and Mrs. Frances F. Somer A Preliminary Attempt to Devise Local Projectile Point Chronologies in the Southern Plains Robert G. Campbell and Dwight Weeks The Conserving Amateur James H. Word Nan's Shelter: (41CX109) Aaron D. Riggs Pecos River Style Pictograph Site, Terrell County Evelyn Walters Social Evolution Solman Cooke 1973 S. W. F. A. S. Early Man Conference Arnold Sommer A Preliminary Study of Black Mesa Fire Hearths Black Mesa, Arizona Cindi Everitt
Tenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1975) The Bull Hill Site Excavation Ronnie Shawn An Archaeological Survey of the South Plains Association of Governments Area Robert G. Campbell Midland Well Site (41MD18) Francis and Teddy Stickney An Introductory Bibliography on Human Osteology P. Wiley Techniques in Recording Indian Rock Art Evelyn Waters Notes on Presence of Indians of Historic Period in Pecos County and Iraan, Texas area Evelyn Walters and Rose Mary Rogers The Historica Indians--Midland Area Teddy Stickney
Eleventh Regional Symposium Bulletin (1976) Let's Get Serious About Rock Art John V. Davis Negative Evidence from Southern Jornada Sites After the Archaic Vernon Ralph Brook A Single Site Complex on Alpine Creek and its Implications: A Preliminary Report Antonio A. Andretta Miss Effie: JD-69 Teddy Lou Stickney Holmes Canyon: Site 41PC73 Gordon Doubille and Opal Hail Ecological Factors in the Seasonal Utilization of the Llano Estacado Joe Allen Weedman The Lower Plains and Integrative Anthropology Ronald L. Holt Archaeological Survey in the S. P. A. G. Area Robert G. Campbell Aspartic Acid Racemization as a Dating Technique John L. Montgomery A New S. P. A. S. Site Card Sharon Judd and Dennis McIntosh An Open Report on Probes and Digs of Ly. 42 Alyce Hart
Twelfth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1977) Prehistoric Settlement in the Salt Basin, Texas Kimball Banks A Review of Archaic Cultures of the Texas Panhandle Philip A. Bandy Aboriginal Utilization of Lithic Types and Sources in the El Paso Area Thomas J. Martin The Red Rock Site: A Mimbres Village on the Gila River, Grant County, Western New Mexico Jack P. and Vera Mills A Courtyard and two Rooms at Red Rock, New Mexico Vernon Ralph Brooks Xeroradiography: A New Technique S. Heimenmann, M. D. "Hat A" Girl Scout Archaeological Field Training Teddy Stickney What is Clay? Opal Hail Recent Investigations in the Southern Guadalupe Mountains Locality of West Texas Paul R. Katz and Susanna R. Katz The Garza Burial Ted Gates and Alyce Hart
Thirteenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1978) A Comparison of Controlled and Uncontrolled Surface Collecting Techniques at the High Lonesome Site, Crockett County, Texas William J. Mayer-Oakes An Unique El Paso Phase Room Vernon Ralph Brook Prehistoric Resources in the South Plains Association of Governments Area Sharon Ann Judd Characteristic Projectile Point Attributes in Time and Space in North America Sharon Ann Judd A Preliminary Report on a Rare Form of Bedrock Mortar Holes in Garza County, Texas Zoe Kirkpatrick Prehistoric Art of Cave Valley John V. Davis Hatch Canyon: A Chronological Model for Northern Big Bend's Inner Mountain Area Antonio A. Andretta Projectile Point Types and Sequence of the Extreme Jornada-Mogollon Extreme Southeastern, New Mexico Robert Leslie Constitution and By-Laws
Fourteenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1979) Back to Basics in Archaeological Operations William J. Mayer-Oakes Mesilla Phase Artifacts Vernon R. Brook
Fifteenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1980) Pottery Made From Local Clay on the Llano Estacado Alyce Hart Sanderson Canyon Watershed Interpretation of Lithic Debris Philip A. Bandy (Did not submit paper) The Sabina Site Vernon Brook Pre-Projectile Point Cultural Horizons Central Trans-Pecos Ted Jackson Early Pre-Projectile Point State in North America; An Introduction Antonio A Andretta Early Man in the Ecuadorian Sierra William J. Mayer-Oakes (Did not submit paper) Sierra Pinacate Julian D. Hayden The C. W. Harris Site in San Diego County California Paul H. Ezell (Did not submit paper) Roundtable: Early Man Prior to Paleo Man Minutes By-Laws of SWFAS
Sixteenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1981) The Archaeology of Caprock Canyons State Park in Briscoe County, Texas Joe T. Bagot The Blue Canyon Petroglyphs Armstrong County, Texas Constance J. McKown A Look at Puuc and Toltec Architecture in the Northern Yucatan Peninsula Robert L. Smith Playas Incised, Sierra Blanca Variety: A New Pottery Type in the Jornada Mogollon Regge N. Wiseman Who Dunnit? A., B., or C? Albert S. Schroeder Report and Test of a New Technique for Mapping and Recovery of "Exposed" Archaeological Sites Philip A. Bandy Minutes of the March 22, 1980 SWFAS Executive Committee By-Laws of Southwestern Federation of Archeological Societies
Seventeenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1982) Editor's Foreword Jim Couzzourt Minutes, April 4, 1981 SWFAS Executive Committee Meeting SWFAS Standard Operating Procedure By-Laws, Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies Program, 1981 Annual Meeting and Regional Symposium, Amarillo, TX Photographic Sequences at the Elephant Butte Reservoir, New Mexico: An Historical Resource to Increase Public Awareness Mary Elizabeth Barger Archaeological Investigations by the Youth Conservation Corps at Lake Meredith Recreation Area, Texas Gerald Meeks Etchieson A Selected Bibliography of the Antelope Creek Focus of Texas and Oklahoma Christopher Lintz An Overview of the Antelope Creek Focus Christopher Lintz Archaeological Testing at Cal Farley's Boys Ranch, Oldham, Co., Texas Jim Couzzourt The Bobby Clay Site (A2070) in Motley County, Texas Brett Cruse A 1724 Spanish Sword from the Southern Llano Estacado Douglas K. Boyd A Large Biface from Crosby County, Texas Jim P. Jeffress The Plumed Serpent Site (41 UP 2) Teddy Stickney 41 SC 3: A Historic Pictograph Site in Scurry County, Texas and An Update on Pictographs at 41EC 2, Ector County, Texas Aaron D. Riggs, Jr. A Preprojectile Point (San Dieguito Complex) Archaeological Survey of the Tornillo Creek Drainage, Big Bend National Park, Texas: A Preliminary Report Antonio A. Andretta The California Connection Dr. Paul H. Ezell
Eighteenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1983) Eleven Caches From near Lamesa, Texas Alyce Hart The Use of Flotation Recovery Standards Michael W. Pendleton 1982 Federation Round Table Session By-Laws of SWFAS Minutes of April 3, 1982 SWFAS Executive Comittee
Nineteenth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1984) Hot-Diggity-Dig: Sites 41PC381 and 382, Pecos County, Texas Aaron D. Riggs Lamesa Middle School Gifted and Talented Field Schol Emma J. "Brownie" Roberts Yoakum County Burial Claude Brown Crane County: Sites 41CR1, 41CR2, 41CR3, 41CR4, 41CR5, 41CR6, 41CR7, 41CR8, 41CR9 Francis and Teddy Stickney Meyer's Springs; Forgotten Crossroads, Terrell County, Texas James Collett The Bob John's Site. Salvage Results at an El Paso Phase Village Vernon Ralph Brook A Prehistoric Burial at Lake Spence: Preliminary Findings M. B. Collins and Peggy Caddell Edible Plants of Southwest Texas Barton Warnock Minutes of the Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies Executive Committee April 9, 1983 Aaron D. Riggs By-Laws of the Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies
Twentieth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1985) Five Possible Archaic Rock Art Sites Near El Paso Mike Bilbo Preliminary Report: Testing at the Tascosa Creek Site, Oldham County, Texas Jim Couzzourt The Tale of Two Sites: A (41LU34) and B (41LU29) Claude Brown Minutes of the April 7, 1984. SWFAS Executive Committee Meeting By-Laws of Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies
Twenty-First Regional Symposium Bulletin (1986) Return to Cowhead Mesa: The Proposed Cowhead Mesa National Register Archeological District Michael Bilbo Gaines County Paleo-Indian Projectile Point Inventory and Analysis Victo Polyak and Monty Williams Early Holocene Transitions of the Llano Estacado: The Archaic and Altithermal Evidence Paula K. Ivey Room Function Analysis of the Saddleback Ruin, A Late Prehistoric Site in the Texas Panhandle Mei Wan Rock Art: Comparison of the Upper Rio Grande and the Raton Section Katherine Dowdy Mesoamerican Influence on Mimbres Art Greg Wood Ecological Considerations of the Tuscan Bay Hohokam Cynthia E. Buttery By-Laws of Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies Minutes of the SWFAS Executive Committee Meeting, April 13, 1985