Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies
In 1964, eight years after its founding, the Lea County Archaeological Society in Hobbs, NM recognized the need for a comparison and exchange of archaeological information from this region. It was an area in which a great deal of information had been collected by individual amateurs and archaeological societies, but where very little of it had been published. It was virtually untouched by the professional archaeologist. A symposium, or workshop, was held in Hobbs, New Mexico in 1965 and was attended by seven regional societies. Those participating societies were the El Llano Archaeological Society (Portales, NM), the El Paso Archaeological Society (El Paso, TX), the Lea County Archeological Society (Hobbs, NM), the Llano Estacado Archaeological Society (Andrews, TX), the Lovington Junior Archaeological Society (Lovington, NM), the Midland Archeological Society (Midland, TX), and the South Plains Archeological Society (Lubbock and Post, TX). The resulting volume, published in 1966, was titled Bulletin I, Southeastern New Mexico and West Texas Symposium Papers. When this volume was reprinted in 1970, the title was changed to the Transactions of the First Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico & Western Texas. The formation of the Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies (SWFAS) was a direct result of the Second Regional Archaeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas, held in 1966 in Midland, Texas. The papers were published in 1967 as the Transactions of the Second Regional Symposium.
The Federation has no fixed membership, with local and regional societies joining, leaving, and sometimes rejoining as their own membership waxes and wanes. There is no fixed location or address for the organization, and Symposium venues rotate among the current member societies. Two members of each active society constitute the Federation’s Board of Directors, and a business meeting is held in conjunction with the annual Symposium. The Federation has held an annual symposium since 1965, and the presented papers have been consistently published as the Transactions the following year. There have been 55 volumes of the Transactions published from 1966 to 2019; Volume 56 will be available via the Portal in 2023 after a several-year hiatus due to Covid-19.
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SWFAS c/o Panhandle Archeological Society
PO Box 814
Amarillo, TX 79105-0814
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