Past GBAC Chairs

1954 Gila Pueblo, Arizona. Jesse D. Jennings

1955 Southwest Museum, Los Angeles. Ruth D. Simpson

1956 University of Utah, Salt Lake City. Jesse D. Jennings

1958 University of Nevada, Reno. Earl Kersten

1960 University of California, Los Angeles. Clement Meighan (?)

1962 Nevada State Museum, Carson City. Richard Shutler (name changed from Great Basin Archaeological Conference to present name).

1964 University of Nevada, Reno.Warren d'Azevedo

1966 University of Nevada, Reno.Earl Swanson, Jr. (met jointly with SAA)

1968 Idaho State University, Pocatello. B. Robert Butler

1970 University of Oregon, Eugene. C. Melvin Aikens

1972 University of Utah Salt Lake City. Wick Miller (last meeting held on a campus or at a museum)

1974 Carson City, Nevada. Donald Tuohy

1976 Las Vegas, Nevada. Claude Warren

1978 Reno, Nevada. Don Fowler

1980 Salt Lake City, Utah. David Madsen and James O'Connell

1982 Reno, Nevada. Robert Bettinger

1984 Boise, Idaho. Max Pavesic

1986 Las Vegas, Nevada. Don Tuohy Jean Clark, Amy Dansie, Thomas Karollo and Kathryne Olson.

1988 Park City, Utah. Joel Janetski, James Wilde, Deborah Newman

and Kathy Driggs.

1990 Reno, Nevada. Robert Kelly

1992 Boise, Idaho. Max Pavesic and Thomas Green

1994 Elko, Nevada. Kevin Jones

1996 Kings Beach/Lake Tahoe, California. Charlotte Beck

1998 Bend, Oregon. Dennis Jenkins

2000 Ogden, Utah. Steven Simms and Brooke Arkush

2002 Elko, Nevada. Patricia Dean and Tim Murphy

2004 Sparks, Nevada. David Zeanah, Pat Barker, Michael Delacorte, and Mark Basgall. (50 th Anniversary meeting).

2006 Las Vegas, Nevada. Heidi Roberts, Barbara Roth, and
Suzanne Eskenazi

2008 Portland State University, Oregon. Virginia Butler