These are the 1988 Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society (PNWAS), News Bulletins with activities of the Society for that year In 1988 the Director, Dale Croes, got a grant to conduct an international archaeology conference at the Seattle Center as part of the 1989 State Centennial Celebration: The Circum-Pacific Prehistory Conference: Bringing a Million Years of Human Heritage to Washington State.
As part of its activities in 1988, PNWAS started a drive to engage the members in talks that reflected the Pacific Basin Prehistory and how they would form a volunteer group to coordinate their ambitious international conference program. Updates on the conference development were starting to be published in the 1988 PNWAS News Bulletins.
Included here is a spreadsheet documenting PNWAS’s activities in 1988 as well as News Bulletins for that year. As Director, Dale Croes compiled each of these News Bulletins.
As originally stated in our founding in 1985, the Pacific Northwest Archaeological Society (PNWAS) is a membership organization that “offers a means for individuals and organizations to declare their support for the preservation of the rich archaeological resources in our region and help to bring public archaeology programs to people of the Pacific Northwest. Benefits of membership include timely information on Northwest archaeological research, a bi-monthly lecture series and opportunity to participate in professionally supervised research in the Northwest.” PNWAS was incorporated at that time as a non-profit organization in the State of Washington and has remained true to these original objectives. Dale Croes has been the Executive Director throughout these 40 years, with a President, Vice-President and other Officers in PNWAS’s Board. The best way to view the overall history of PNWAS activities is to review our PNWAS News Bulletins scanned and compiled by year: 1985-2025.