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The 82nd Plains Anthropological Conference will be held in Iowa City, Iowa October 29-November 1, 2025

Information for authors, current and back issues, and online access.

» Call for Editor of Plains Anthropologist 

»University of Kansas is announcing two fieldschools: Archaeology Fieldwork (May 13-31) and Geophysical Methods in Archaeology (June 17-July 5)

» Richard Drass – the 2023 PAS Distinguished Service Award Recipient

» Call for Nominations for the Distinguished Service Award. Deadline July 1, 2024.

» Back issue orders of the Plains Anthropologist on hold

» New Board Members and Committee Assignments

» Fern Swenson and Kent Buehler - the 2022 PAS Distinguished Service Award Recipients

» 2022 Native American Student Award Recipients

» Student Paper Award Winners 2022

» Student Poster Competition Winners 2022

» Call for Papers - Plains Anthropologist

» Handbook of North American Indians, Volume 1: Introduction now available

» Difficulty with Online Journal Access?

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☛ Reveling in relics: Excavation continues at Willow Springs this summer

☛ Uncovering the history of Bloomingdale

☛ History comes alive for students at Sturgis preservation area

☛ At Texas Archaeological Site, Mavericks Dig Up History

☛ Multicultural dig resumes at Fort Benton in Montana

☛ 'Keeping the story relevant': former Dearfield town site shows signs of reopening

☛ Search dogs indicate possible site of lost Genoa Indian School cemetery

☛ This 12-000-Year-Old Wyoming Quarry could be North America's Oldest Mine

☛ OU, OAS to team in archaeological research

☛ Archaeological Sites provide window to Nebraska's past