AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting 2027

Dr. Reid Ferring is a Professor Emeritus at the University of North Texas, as well as an archaeologist and geologist, focusing on Eurasia and the North American Great Plains. He maintains research interests in Clovis Paleoindian occupations of the Southern Plains and lithic technology. Dr. Ferring teaches a variety of courses including Physical Geology, Soils Geomorphology, Geology of Texas, Origins of Civilization, and regional archaeological surveys of the Old World and New World. He advises graduate students and supervises their research in their chosen areas as well as his research projects.

Dr. Alan Skinner has been doing archaeology in Texas and other parts of the Southwest for more than four decades, and is the owner of AR Consultants, Inc., an environmental consulting firm specializing in cultural resource management. He graduated from the University of New Mexico and received his PhD from Southern Methodist University. He has worked on prehistoric and historic sites throughout Texas, with a particular interest in prehistoric settlement patterns and lithic technology. He has directed five field schools for the Texas Archeological Society. He developed the archaeology merit badge for the Boy Scouts of America. He is currently working with private and public agencies, including numerous engineering companies, on wind farms, two lakes, water, sewer, and petroleum pipelines, roads, transmission lines, and landfills. He continues to publish in local, regional, and national journals.