Center for Archaeological Studies

10/20/2026

Thank you to the Meadows Center for the Water and the Environment for inviting CAS Archaeologists out for your Family Fun Day. It was the perfect day to enjoy such a wonderful highlight of Texas State University. CAS Project Archaeologists Erin Elizabeth Hamilton , Sean Coughlin, and Kaylee Gaumnitz were joined by Texas State students to talk about the archaeology and the importance of Spring Lake and it's significance as a persistent place. We are grateful for this opportunity to engage with visitors to the Meadows Center.

10/14/2026

The CTA's Curation and Archives Committee is offering a virtual training webinar on Ethical Sampling, Culling and Disposal of Archaeological Materials.

Register here if you are already a CTA member: https://counciloftexasarcheologists.org/event-6875178/Registration

If you would like to join the CTA (which you totally should!), Become a Member here: https://counciloftexasarcheologists.org/Become-a-member

Council of Texas Archeologists - CTA

10/06/2026

CAS welcomes Kaylee Gaumnitz as our 3rd recent Project Archaeologist hire!! Kaylee received her Master’s Degree from Texas State in 2023 and is a CAS alum having assisted with many Campus projects, Big Bend National Park Surveys, St. Croix in the Caribbean, and TxBOX among others. She has worked for other CRM firms over the past four years as well along with time spent teaching high school U.S. History. She has diverse experience across Missouri, Oklahoma, Louisiana, the Caribbean, and of course Texas. Her regional experience is a great fit for current CAS projects and her past teaching experience will be beneficial to us improving and expanding TxBOX: A Museum in a Box.

09/26/2026

CAS was out at the Texas Historical Commission's (THC) Texas Archaeology Month (TAM) event all day today!! We had booths on combining new 3D technology to study past lithic technology from the Gault Site (Gault School of Archaeological Research) , and a booth on recreating paints used in the past and letting kids make their own Rock Art like Shumla Archaeological Research & Education Center helps study and record. It was hot but it was a great event!!!

09/18/2026

CAS is continuing to fill much needed positions. Welcome to CAS’s newest full-time staff member, Sean Coughlin!! Sean will serve as a Senior Project Archaeologist for CAS. Sean has over 40 years of experience and has worked both at private CRM firms and in academic CRM settings in the past. In addition to his extensive Principal Investigator experience in the Eastern U.S., Midwest, and Central U.S., managing small and large scale projects alike, Sean is also a formally trained faunal analyst and a flint knapper. Sean will complement and expand much of CAS’s current offerings. He is well-known to CAS leadership and many of our Anthropology Department faculty from years of a shared grad school history at the University of Tennessee and decades of overlapping research interests and projects.

09/16/2026

We are accepting applications for the 2026-2027 Veterans Curation Program session at the Center for Archaeological Studies satelite lab location. Apply today at https://txstate.joinhandshake.com/jobs/11427860?searchId=

09/02/2026

Welcome to CAS’s newest full-time staff member, Stefanie Mills!! Stefanie will serve as a Project Archaeologist and Faunal Analyst for CAS. Stefanie got her Master’s degree at Texas State and is currently working on her Ph.D. Despite many years of a CRM career at other companies, Stef is not a stranger to CAS having assisted us as a student employee as field tech, faunal analyst, crew chief, and field director on projects already. She has varied experience with faunal analysis, field projects, lab analyses and curation, and report writing and outreach. We have seen her in action supervising crews and problem solving when even catastrophes occur like flat tires or when typical scales are not sufficient for the job!

06/23/2026

CAS is hiring a Project Archaeologist for our San Marcos office. We are looking for a mid-level to Senior individual with 3 or more years of experience. This person will direct field projects in Texas, Kentucky, and elsewhere and will be responsible for training, coaching, and mentoring students and recent graduates.

This position will not have teaching duties within the Department of Anthropology.

CAS is a dynamic, university-based CRM research center within Texas State University's Department of Anthropology. We currently have seven full-time employees and up to 20 part-time employees in San Marcos. This hire is part of three new positions within CAS to accommodate our growth in Texas and around the world.

Applications will only be accepted through the Texas State applicant portal.

Texas State University invites applications for a Grant Specialist/Project Archaeologist with the Center for Archaeological Studies (CAS). The position will serve as a Project Archaeologist assisting the CAS Management on Cultural Resource Management (CRM) projects in Texas and across the United Sta...

06/07/2026

CAS is expanding and hiring a staff member to serve as both a Faunal Analyst and Project Archaeologist. If interested, please see the job posting at the link and feel free to pass it along!

Will conduct faunal analysis for archaeological collections through species identification, data analysis, technical report writing, and preparation of materials for long-term curation in compliance with federal and state standards.Will support cultural resource management (CRM) projects through arc...

05/16/2026

Amy, lab supervisor for the satellite VCP lab at TXST University’s Center for Archaeological Studies, visited the Augusta lab on March 31st.

Augusta lab staff treated her with lunch, a lab tour, and some highly coveted black photography scale bars (IYKYK!).

Thanks for the hospitality, Augusta! We hope to return the favor one day.

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Image 1: Amy with Augusta lab staff holding photography scales.