President
For more than four decades, Dr. Alan Skinner has contributed to the archaeological field throughout the Southwest. Alan is actively involved in directing ARC investigations throughout the states of Texas and Oklahoma.
Alan graduated from the University of New Mexico and received his Ph.D. from Southern Methodist University. He has worked on prehistoric and historic sites throughout Texas. Notably, he has worked on Civil War-era sites in Texas such as salt works near Tyler, a log cabin site near College Station, and Confederate earthworks at Gonzales. He also defined late nineteenth and early twentieth-century cemeteries. Furthermore, prehistoric settlement patterns and lithic technology are areas of particular interest to him.
Alan has directed five field schools for the Texas Archeological Society and continues to work with avocational archaeologists throughout Texas. He also developed the archaeology merit badge for the Boy Scouts of America, which demonstrates his devotion to the education of the future generation. He is currently working with private and public agencies, including numerous
engineering companies, on wind farms, lakes, water pipelines, waste water pipelines, petroleum pipelines, roads, transmission lines, and landfills. He continues to publish in local, regional, and national journals.