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Book The Prehistory of Texas

Download or read book The Prehistory of Texas written by Timothy K. Perttula and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-09-24 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than eleven thousand years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the state. This comprehensive volume explores in detail the varied experience of native peoples who lived on this land in prehistoric times. Chapters on each of the regions offer cutting-edge research, the culmination of years of work by dozens of the most knowledgeable experts. Based on the archaeological record, the discussion of the earliest inhabitants includes a reclassification of all known Paleoindian projectile point types and establishes a chronology for the various occupations. The archaeological data from across the state of Texas also allow authors to trace technological changes over time, the development of intensive fishing and shellfish collecting, funerary customs and the belief systems they represented, long-term changes in settlement mobility and character, landscape use, and the eventual development of agricultural societies. The studies bring the prehistory of Texas Indians all the way up through the Late Prehistoric period (ca. a.d. 700–1600). The extensively illustrated chapters are broadly cultural-historical in nature but stay strongly focused on important current research problems. Taken together, they present careful and exhaustive considerations of the full archaeological (and paleoenvironmental) record of Texas.

Book The Toyah Phase of Central Texas

Download or read book The Toyah Phase of Central Texas written by Nancy Adele Kenmotsu and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2012-10-02 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition. ?Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite recent, offer other views of this culture, whose homeland covered much of Central and South Texas. For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together a number of perspectives and interpretations of these hunter-gatherers and how they interacted with each other, the pueblos in southeastern New Mexico, the mobile groups in northern Mexico, and newcomers from the northern plains such as the Apache and Comanche.? Assembling eight studies and interpretive essays to look at social boundaries from the perspective of migration, hunter-farmer interactions, subsistence, and other issues significant to anthropologists and archaeologists, The Toyah Phase of Central Texas: Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes demonstrates that these prehistoric societies were never isolated from the world around them. Rather, these societies were keenly aware of changes happening on the plains to their north, among the Caddoan groups east of them, in the Puebloan groups in what is now New Mexico, and among their neighbors to the south in Mexico.

Book Archeology of the High Plains

Download or read book Archeology of the High Plains written by James H. Gunnerson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Archaeology of the High Plains

Download or read book Archaeology of the High Plains written by James H. Gunnerson and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Gender and Hide Production

Download or read book Gender and Hide Production written by Lisa Frink and published by Rowman Altamira. This book was released on 2006 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hide production is one of the oldest crafts known to humans. Yet this is the first volume to critically explore the gendered nature of this universal activity amongst hunters-gatherers for its meaning in craft production, status, identity and cultural change. Using ethnoarchaeological and archaeological examples from North America and Africa, the authors provide new insights of the gendered nature of human behavior.

Book The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva

Download or read book The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva written by Richard Flint and published by University Press of Colorado. This book was released on 2004-05-20 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Coronado Expedition to Tierra Nueva is an engaging record of key research by archaeologists, ethnographers, historians, and geographers concerning the first organized European entrance into what is now the American Southwest and northwestern Mexico. In search of where the expedition went and what peoples it encountered, this volume explores the fertile valleys of Sonora, the basins and ranges of southern Arizona, the Zuni pueblos and the Rio Grande Valley of New Mexico, and the Llano Estacado of the Texas panhandle. The twenty-one contributors to the volume have pursued some of the most significant lines of research in the field in the last fifty years; their techniques range from documentary analysis and recording traditional stories to detailed examination of the landscape and excavation of campsites and Indian towns. With more confidence than ever before, researchers are closing in on the route of the conquistadors.

Book Archaeology of the Mixed Grass Prairie

Download or read book Archaeology of the Mixed Grass Prairie written by Timothy G. Baugh and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians

Download or read book Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians written by Ellen Sue Turner and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2011-12-16 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes charts, geographic distribution maps and reliable age-dating information. The authors also demonstrate how factors such as environment, locale and type of artifact combine to produce a portrait of theses ancient cultures.

Book Southwestern Historical Quarterly

Download or read book Southwestern Historical Quarterly written by and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 860 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Montgomery Plaza LTD Project 3 176 Acres Montgomery County Texas

Download or read book An Archaeological Survey of the Proposed Montgomery Plaza LTD Project 3 176 Acres Montgomery County Texas written by William E. Moore and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Merrell Taylor Village Site

Download or read book The Merrell Taylor Village Site written by Eddie Joe Guffee and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society

Download or read book Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society written by Texas Archeological Society and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: