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HAS Member Meeting - Thursday, September 18th, 2025, 6:00 p.m.
Dr. Chris Lintz - Antelope Creek Middle Ceramic Period, Part II
The HAS February meeting takes place on Thursday, September 18 at 6:00 p.m. The meeting will take place virtually only via Zoom. This is our Annual HAS Meeting, when new officers are installed. As our speaker, we welcome back Christopher Lintz, Ph.D., for Part II of his discussion of his fifty-five years of research studying the Late Prehistoric Antelope Creek Phase people in the Texas-Oklahoma panhandles, including domestic architecture and settlement patterns, Alibates flint trade and quarrying activities, and the collapse and demise of the culture in the mid to late 1400s..
Lintz received his M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1984) in Anthropology from the University of Oklahoma and his B.A. in Anthropology from Arizona State University (1970). He has conducted and directed cultural resource management archaeology in seventeen states and Puerto Rico, working for various universities and private consulting firms. In 2006, he became the first full-time Cultural Resource Specialist for the Wildlife Division of the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, where he managed cultural resources on some fifty-one Wildlife Management Areas across 1,200 square miles of Texas and coordinated cultural resource consultation for federal grants addressing habitat restoration projects on private lands. He retired from this state agency in 2016 and currently serves as a Research Associate at the Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University in San Marcos.
Since 1970, Lintz has focused his geographical research interests on the southern High Plains, with emphasis on ecological anthropology involving paleo-environmental reconstruction, human adaptation, settlement/subsistence patterns, architectural and community patterns, technological trends in lithic resource extraction and tool manufacture, ceramic technology, and regional exchange/interaction across the Southern Plains region with adjacent areas, especially during the Late Prehistoric Period. He has built and actively maintains lithic cache and obsidian databases from sites across Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas as a means of documenting cultural interactions. Since many of the prehistoric cultural definitions are shaped by the personalities and interactions of early archeologists, he has compiled biographical research on early investigators who worked across the Southern Plains and Southeastern Colorado. He has published more than 370 reports, articles, and book chapters on a wide range of projects and research topics. He has served as an officer or member of advisory and steering committees for the Plains Anthropological Society, the Texas Archaeological Society, the Oklahoma Anthropological Society, and the Texas Historical Commission. He is a Steward of the Texas Historical Commission and several of his projects have been recognized with Merit in Archaeology Awards by the THC. Honors include the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Panhandle Archaeological Society, the Lifetime Membership Award of the Hill Country Archeological Society, recognition as a Fellow by the Texas Archaeological Society, and the Distinguished Service Award from the Plains Anthropological Society.
For more information about this program or about the Houston Archeological Society, please contact Bob Sewell at president@txhas.org. Sources and further information about Dr. Lintz may be found at Christopher-Lintz-HCAAwebsite.pdf; https://cas.anthropology.txst.edu/about/cas-staff/lintz.html.
HAS JOURNAL 144 NOW AVAILABLE
HAS Journal No. 144 is now available. The Journal Number 144 The articles will focus on the San Felipe de Austin Dig by John Lohse, Horseshoes in Texas, a Thimble from the 18th or 19th century from France found in Frosttown, and another article about Camp Kirby in Dickenson, TX, a civil war camp by Charly Gordy, ceramics from Cottonfield by Tim Perttula, and information from Mike Woods about a Butted Knife Found in Comal County. Complimentary copies may be obtained by HAS members at the monthly meetings. Non-HAS members may purchase copies through Amazon.com. Go to the HAS Journals Section for a link to the publication on the Amazon.com website. Alternatively, copies may be purchased at the HAS Monthly Meetings.
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