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Transactions of the Regional Archaeological Symposiums for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas

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.
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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 Crockett 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 Historical 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



Twenty-Second Regional Symposium Bulletin (1987)
Minutes of SWFAS Executive Board meeting for 1986
An Interim Report on the Midland Campsite, Winkler 1 (Abstract only)     Jay Blaine
A Model for Development of Fluted Points (Abstract only)     William Mayer-Oakes
A1168, A Late Archaic Site: A Field Report     Meeks Etchieson
The Architecture and Stratigraphy of Landregin Mesa (Abstract only)     Christopher Lintz
Four Arrowpoint Styles from the Plateau Complex of Culberson County, Texas     Jack Hedrick
Stone Circles of the Middle Pecos River Valley     Drs. Paul and Susanna Katz
​An Historic Burial (Abstract only)     Tom Ellzey

An Indian Glass Trade Bead Site in Southcentral New Mexico (Abstract only)     Vernon Brooks
The Lott Site: A Late Prehistoric Site, Garza County, Texas (Abstract only)     Frank Runkles
Apache Wind God at Alamo Mountain     Mike Bilbo
Excavation at 1874 Adobe Walls Site (Abstract only)     Billy Harrison
Historic Metal Projectile Points from the Southern Plains and Periphery: A Preliminary Overview (Abstract only)
      A. J. Taylor and Kay Eades
Lithic Caches of the Bissell Collection (Abstract only)     John Dockall
Lithic Resources of the Alibates National Monument and Lake Meredith Recreation Area: Potter, Moore, 
     and Hutchinson Counties (Abstract only)     Ed Day
The Formation of an Archaeological Research/Resource Center for the Area Encompassed by the SWFAS (Abstract only)
     Calvini Smith
Stylistic Variations in Point Types     James H. Word

Twenty-Third Regional Symposium Bulletin (1988)
Southwest Federation 22nd Annual Meeting Minutes 1987
Archaic Bundle Burial from Crosby County, Texas (Abstract only)     Wayne Parker and John Redding
Firearms in the American West (Abstract only)     David T. Hughes
The 1987 TAS Field School, Ochiltree County, Texas (Abstract only)     David T. Hughes
Progress Report on Excavations at the Macy Ranch Site, Garza County, Texas IAbstract only)
     Beverly Brantly an d Barbara Geyer
Folsom Research in Western Oklahoma: Rethinking the Folsom Occupation of the Southern Plains     Jack L. Hofman
Rock Art at or near Trementina, New Mexico     Beryl Cain Roper
Tascosa Creek Site     Jim Couzzourt
The Tascosa Creek Site Skeleton     P. Wiley
A Note on Three Slab-Lined Cists on the Lake Meredith Shoreline     G. Meeks Etchieson and James E. Couzzourt
Archaeological Survey and Testing of the Melrose Bombing Range Expansion, Roosevelt and Curry Counties, New Mexico
     Christopher Lintz, Project Manager, Mariah Associates

Twenty-Fourth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1989)
Memoriam
Monument Springs Incised Stone     Mandy Pearce
Midland Independent School District Gifted and Talented Classes Field Excavation     Teddy Stickney
Documentation of Private Projectile Point Collection     Carrol Hedrick
Pottery Types of the Southwest Federation of Archaeological Societies (SWFAS) Area     John W. Runyan and John A. Hedrick
Charles W. Bandy
Minutes of the April 9, 1988 SWFAS Meeting, Iraan, Texas

Twenty-Fifth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1990)
Dimensional Folsom Variability: Lessons from the Shifting Sands Site     Daniel S. Amick
The Archaeological Sequence at Kinkaid, Uvalde County, Texas     Michael B. Collins
A Plow-Distributed Plainview Cache on the Southern High Plains of Texas     William T. Hartwell
A Folsom Bison Kill at Lipscomb, Texas:  50 Years of Research     Jack L. Hofman
The Late Holocene Record at Lubbock Lake--4,000 Years on the Southern High Plains     Eileen Johnson
(Abstract only)
Lowland Archaeological Resources at Conchas Reservoir, Eastern New Mexico     Christopher Lintz
Testing the In Situ Fluting Hypothesis     William J. Mayer-Oakes
The Archaeology and Paleoecology of the Altithermal Occupation at Mustang Springs, West Texas     David J. Meltzer
(Abstract only)
The Bridwell Site (41CB27)    Wayne Parker
Texas State Parks:  New Acquisitions of Ancient Cultural Properties     Ronald W. Ralph
Minutes of the SWFAS Executive Board Meeting for 1989

Twenty-Sixth Regional Symposium Bulletin (1991)
Quetzalcoatl, Jornada Mogollon Rock Art, and Religious Syncretism     Kay Sutherland and Dave Parker
Use of Portulacacacae by Historic and Prehistoric Populations in the El Paso Southwest     John W. Green
The Pope Cache Find (41TY3) in Terry County, Texas     Leon Pope and Ted Hartwell
A Study Sample of Toyah Points from Western Texas     John A. Hedrick
Preliminary Report: Rock Art Survey of the Guadalupe Mountains     Michael Bilbo and Barbara Bilbo
Minutes of the SWFAS Executive Committee Meeting April 7, 1990
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