Join us for the 53rd Annual Meeting in Elko, NV!

The NAA invites you to join us at the 2025 NAA conference in Elko, NV, from March 21-23. The preliminary schedule for the meeting is as follows:


Friday, March 21st
9:00 am-3:30 pm - Onsite Registration and Check-In
9:30 am-3:30 pm - Silent Auction
9:30 am-9:45 am - President’s Welcome and Announcements
9:45 am-11:00 am - Morning Papers
11:00 am-12:00pm - Morning Workshop: Can Identification
12:00 pm-1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30 pm-3:00 pm - Afternoon Workshop: Food Processing
3:45 pm-4:00 pm - NAA Board Meeting
5:30 pm-7:00 pm - Poster Session and Evening Reception

Saturday, March 22nd
9:00 am-3:30 pm - Onsite Registration and Check-In
9:30 am-3:30 pm - Silent Auction
9:45 am-10:00 am - President’s Announcements
10:00 am-12:00 pm - Morning Papers
12:00 am-1:30 pm - Lunch
1:30 pm-3:00 pm - Afternoon Papers
3:00 pm-3:15 pm - Three-Minute Papers
3:30 pm-4:30 pm - Keynote Lecture
4:30 pm-5:00 pm - NAA Membership Meeting, Board Elections, and Board Meeting
6:00 pm-9:30 pm - Banquet
7:00 pm-7:30 pm - Awards Presentations
7:30 pm-9:30 pm - Live Auction

Sunday, March 23rd
10:00 am-1:30 pm - California Trail Interpretive Center

If you have tried to register and did not get a payment confirmation, please email us at conferencechair@nvarch.org! We apologize for the headache, but will honor all attempts to pre-register!

 

A Little About NAA

The Nevada Archaeological Association (NAA) is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization consisting of professional, academic, and avocational archaeologists, with members throughout the state and across the nation, regional chapters, and several affiliated societies. The mission of the NAA is to encourage public interest and involvement in archaeology and historic preservation by sharing information through lectures, workshops, field trips, an annual meeting, and both newsletter and journal publications. Archaeologists affiliated with the NAA volunteer their time to help educate other NAA members and to provide them opportunities to experience Nevada archaeology.

In Situ is the NAA’s quarterly newsletter, containing articles and short reports submitted by NAA members, notices about legal developments concerning archaeology and historic preservation, announcements for lectures and the annual meeting, chapter updates, and other information. Since 1972, Nevada Archaeologist has been the NAA’s annual journal, offering contributions from professional, academic, and avocational archaeologists. It is now a peer-reviewed publication. In Situ and Nevada Archaeologist are provided free of charge to NAA members as benefits for being part of the organization.

The NAA hosts a three-day annual meeting that features workshops on historic and prehistoric archaeology, paper presentations, a keynote speaker, student scholarship grants, socials, a silent auction, and the election of the NAA officers, board members, and support committee chairs.  During the meeting banquet the NAA recognizes individual contributions to Nevada archaeology with the Silver Trowel Award for lifetime achievement by professionals and/or academics, and the Ting-Perkins Award for outstanding work by avocational archaeologists.

Each May the NAA also funds, designs, and prints a poster to celebrate Nevada Historic Preservation and Archaeology Awareness Month. The posters are distributed free to the public through land management agencies, educational institutions, and at the NAA annual meeting. To generate more visibility for Nevada archaeology, the NAA enters its annual poster in a contest hosted by the Society for American Archaeology.

 

 



Past Events

April 2022, 51st NAA Conference in Fallon, Nevada.
March 2021, 50th NAA Conference in Tonopah, Nevada.