Archaeology Research Collections at SMU

08/30/2026

Standing room only at the Open Lab Day today with North Texas Archeological Society. Thanks for everyone who came out — we finished cataloguing another site's assemblage and started flotation and water-screening of soil samples.

08/17/2026

A little update on what we've been up to over the past year, and on what we're doing to build community-based archaeology in North Texas.

Students, researchers and volunteers preserve artifacts spanning 500,000 years at SMU's Archaeology Research Collections lab in Dallas.

07/16/2026

07/15/2026

Had a wonderful visit today with a group from Kyrgizstan visiting the U.S. to learn about cultural heritage preservation organized through World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth. We also performed the ceremonial reciprocal exchange of archaeology swag!

07/13/2026

Yet another artifact from SMU's 1966/1967 work in Crockett County to salvage archaeological resources before construction of I-10. This sequent scraper was found in the uppermost level at Sotol Shelter (41CX9) along with two Garza points.

Object: Sequent side-scraper Material: Indurated shale Provenience: 41CX9 (Sotol Shelter), Crockett County, Texas Period: Late Prehistoric Attribution: Archaeology Research Collections, Southern Methodist University.

07/11/2026

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07/09/2026

Perdiz point; From the Rivas Shelter (X41CX7, Crockett Co., Texas) tested in 1966 by SMU Department of Anthropology in advance of the construction of US Interstate 10 over the Pecos River.

07/03/2026

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A group of Caddo return to their homeland in East Texas to revive their pottery tradition

06/16/2026

Had a great time giving a presentation at the TAS field school this evening. Thanks for inviting us to talk about our mission to preserve Texas archaeology!