Dr. Michael Collins
Chairman

Dr. Michael B. Collins is a Research Associate Professor at Texas State University in San Marcos. He has specialized in the study of lithic technology and worked with prehistoric collections from North, Central, and South America, as well as the Near East and southwestern Europe. He collaborated on the lithics research for the preClovis site of Monte Verde, Chile. Dr. Collins is currently active in research on the earliest part of the American archaeological record and published Clovis Blade Technology (UT Press) and Clovis Stone Tool Technology (in press).

Dr. Bradley is Director of the Experimental Archaeology Masters Programme at the University of Exeter (UK). He has extensive experience with Stone Age technologies and experimental archaeology and has done research in the U.S. France, Russia and Central Asia. Bruce is also active in bringing his archaeological and anthropological interests to the public through presentations, teaching, interaction with Native American communities and participation in documentaries.

Clark Wernecke is the Executive Director for the Gault School. Dr. Wernecke brings a unique blend of scholarship and experience to the project with degrees in history, business and anthropology. He has considerable experience in business and has specialized in the management of large archaeological projects. Dr. Wernecke has worked in the Middle East, Mesoamerica, the American Southeast and Southwest, and Texas. In addition to his work with the GSAR, he is currently working on archaeological data from the Mexican War and early Texas architecture.

Cinda Timperley
Staff Paleontologist

Cinda is the staff paleontologist for the Gault Project and is also on the staff of the Center for Archeological Studies at Texas State University. While completing a BS in geology at the University of Nebraska, she worked primarily on late tertiary terrestrial vertebrate sites in Nebraska, Including Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park (http://ashfall.unl.edu). She also excavated late Pleistocene mammoths and archaeological sites in eastern and south central Nebraska. Ms. Timperley holds an MS in geology from Fort Hays State University, where she researched a new species of long-tailed water shrew from the mid-Pleistocene of Nebraska. Her current research interests include North American Pleistocene Equus taxonomy and distribution, Pleistocene paleoecology of the Great Plains, and the roles of various vertebrate species in Paleoindian subsistence regimes.

Nancy Velchoff
Director of Education

Nancy Velchoff is the on the GSAR Board of Directors as well as the Director of Education.  She has worked in the legal and medical fields and has been a patron of the arts in the Dallas area. Ms. Velchoff came to the Gault site for an archaeological educational program and became “hooked”.  When not involved in projects at Gault, Nancy is an artist and equestrian.

Marilyn Shoberg

Marilyn Shoberg does microscopic use-wear analysis, primarily on stone tools from the Gault site. She has previously worked on a number of pueblo sites in the American southwest and Mission Espiritu Santo in Texas. Her MA from the University of Texas at Austin involved Mogollon settlement systems in southern New Mexico.