A Balancing Act: Current Alamo Archaeology in a Regulatory Perspective

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Indigenous Practices and Material Culture: Seventy Years of Mission Life" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Since its creation by the Texas legislature in 1977, the Texas Historical Commission both houses the State Historic Preservation Officer for federal antiquities compliance and administers the Antiquities Code of Texas, which offers state-level protections to significant archaeological sites. The Alamo occupies a unique location on Texas’ compliance landscape and has a complex regulatory history shaped by dynamic politics and public opinion and research priorities in addition to legal mandates. In this paper, I discuss this history and contextualize the ongoing work at the Alamo presented in this session within its unusual regulatory framework.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Indigenous Practices and Material Culture: Seventy Years of Mission Life

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Abstract Id(s): 52188