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 spring while working out of boxes! Our offices are very nice. There are three private offices and a very large lab space. We are located in a building (Pecos) on the north side of the Texas State University Campus and across a narrow alley from the Center for Archaeological Studies run by our old friend and colleague, Dr. Jon Lohse.

As I mentioned we have had a lot going on this spring. April and October are our busiest months as far as our programs with the public.  More than 300 people toured the site including one elementary school with 100 and even the Florence Chamber of Commerce! Our friends from New Hampshire SCRAP (http://www.nh.gov/nhdhr/SCRAP.htm) came at the end of February and into March. They had some beautiful warm days but also worked in a snowstorm that brought us 4 ½”!  Dr. Bruce Bradley once again brought a number of students from the University of Exeter for the month of April which turned out to be a wonderful month weather-wise. Both groups helped us take our current deep excavation down in the Paleoindian strata.

The end of April brought us to the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting in St. Louis where the GSAR and alums were well represented among papers and posters. The highlight was the release of our new book, Clovis Technology, Drs. Collins, Bradley and Lohse with additional material by Dr. C. Andrew Hemmings and Marilyn Shoberg. The publisher, Prehistry press managed to sell all the books they’d brought by the afternoon of the first day!!  

We are still busy in May but not insanely so we are taking time to catch up with everything and hopefully get situated in our new home in San Marcos. If you are interested in any aspect of Gault please feel free to email me at Cwernecke@gaultschool.org.  

D. Clark Wernecke

Executive Director