• Summer and Fall 2011

    Saturday, October 01, 2011

    Wow, what a summer!  If you’d ever like to see what it would be like to practice archaeology on the planet Mercury Texas might be the place for you.  More than 70 days of triple digits (Fahrenheit) with humidity and it still doesn’t get appreciably cooler at night.  This might have slowed us down a bit but the Gault Project continues year round…

                    Although short staffed we have accomplished a lot so far this year. We have nearly doubled the number of people who have gone through our educational programs (Speakers, workshops, tours) and from the look of the ...

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  • 2011 Late Spring Update

    Sunday, May 15, 2011

    I’m not posting as frequently as I’d like but there are still some website growing pains. Once these are worked out then we will be hosting even more information regarding our work and upcoming events.

     

    We have just ended our annual membership drive. If you are a member and you have not yet renewed make it easy on yourself and skip back to the home page and renew your membership with a credit card via the web. If you are not currently a GSAR member why not? All membership money goes straight to supporting our research and education initiatives ...

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  • 2010 Year In Review

    Monday, December 06, 2010

    Still a little bit of 2010 left to enjoy but, wow, what a great year! We had a lot of old friends come and help us out at Gault; the New Hampshire State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program, the University of Exeter, the PaleoCultural Research Group, and the Archaeological Society of Virginia. More than 1300 people toured the site this year – some paid tours thanks to our friends at the Bell County and Williamson Museums – and a lot of school children. An NSF grant enabled us to hire help out at the site to make our excavation goals ...

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  • Move In Completed and Our New Mammoth Tusk

    Monday, August 23, 2010

    We are finally moved in at Texas State!!!  Of course what we were waiting for was temperatures in the three digits – you simply can’t move in Texas without hot weather. Seriously we are now in our new offices and I have begun to keep regular office hours. At the minimum I will be in our San Marcos offices Monday-Thursday. Shortly we will be setting up for washing, drying and sorting artifacts as well as all the other fun projects that make the lab so exciting.

    In the meantime, did you hear about our mammoth tusk?  John Jackson, a GSAR ...

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  • Long Time, No Update!

    Monday, May 17, 2010

    I apologize for not updating the bulletin board sooner. In the future there will be much more information here but we are still feeling our way through the new website startup and we have been extraordinarily busy this spring.

     

    We are nearly in our new offices in San Marcos. The building was remodeled and the floors have been sealed – they’re still working on the fire alarm system but we have begun to move our boxes in. By this time next month I hope to be fairly settled in. It has been very difficult to keep everything going this ...

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  • New Offices, New Web Site

    Friday, January 01, 2010

    Welcome to the new and improved Gault website!  This day has been a long time in coming and we here at the GSAR would like to especially thank Mr. David Ebaugh at Digitaris Technologies for all the help and support he has provided to make this site a reality.

    Our website will be going through ongoing changes and the new framework will make it possible for us to upload and share information more frequently. Yes, that means you’ll have to check back every so often to see what has changed but I think you’ll find it worth it. We will ...

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  • Support Challenges

    Saturday, September 05, 2009

    While Americans are considered to be among the most generous people globally, the economic turmoil has put even more pressure on donors and on nonprofit leaders.  At the same time, millions of Americans say they want to make a difference and expect to work on causes bigger than themselves.

    The Gault School, like many other non-profits, has certainly been impacted by the economic downturn, yet our biggest loss of support has been due to the shift in academic focus at the University of Texas.

    The old saying “may you live in interesting times” comes to mind when I think over the ...

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