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Author : Thomas R. Hester
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Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)
Download or read book Digging Into South Texas Prehistory written by Thomas R. Hester and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Thomas R. Hester
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (779 download)
Download or read book Digging Into South Texas Prehistory written by Thomas R. Hester and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1603446494
Total Pages : 1067 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (34 download)
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 1067 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.
Author : Robert Marcom
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1461625726
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (616 download)
Download or read book Digging Up Texas written by Robert Marcom and published by Taylor Trade Publications. This book was released on 2002-11-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Take a guided tour of more than 15,000 years of life in Texas Mr. Marcom has authored a volume that makes the incredibly diverse archaeological record of Texas accessible to interested laypersons and beginning avocational archaeologists.
Author : Ellen Sue Turner
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1461718171
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (617 download)
Download or read book A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians written by Ellen Sue Turner and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 1999-01-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.
Author : Ellen Sue Turner
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
ISBN 13 : 1589794656
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (897 download)
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.
Author : Daniel D. Arreola
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292793146
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Tejano South Texas written by Daniel D. Arreola and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the plains between the San Antonio River and the Rio Grande lies the heartland of what is perhaps the largest ethnic region in the United States, Tejano South Texas. In this cultural geography, Daniel Arreola charts the many ways in which Texans of Mexican ancestry have established a cultural province in this Texas-Mexico borderland that is unlike any other Mexican American region. Arreola begins by delineating South Texas as an environmental and cultural region. He then explores who the Tejanos are, where in Mexico they originated, and how and where they settled historically in South Texas. Moving into the present, he examines many factors that make Tejano South Texas distinctive from other Mexican American regions—the physical spaces of ranchos, plazas, barrios, and colonias; the cultural life of the small towns and the cities of San Antonio and Laredo; and the foods, public celebrations, and political attitudes that characterize the region. Arreola's findings thus offer a new appreciation for the great cultural diversity that exists within the Mexican American borderlands.
Author : John Wesley Arnn
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292768060
Total Pages : 317 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Land of the Tejas written by John Wesley Arnn and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-05-23 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining archaeological, historical, ethnographic, and environmental data, Land of the Tejas represents a sweeping, interdisciplinary look at Texas during the late prehistoric and early historic periods. Through this revolutionary approach, John Wesley Arnn reconstructs Native identity and social structures among both mobile foragers and sedentary agriculturalists. Providing a new methodology for studying such populations, Arnn describes a complex, vast, exotic region marked by sociocultural and geographical complexity, tracing numerous distinct peoples over multiple centuries. Drawing heavily on a detailed analysis of Toyah (a Late Prehistoric II material culture), as well as early European documentary records, an investigation of the regional environment, and comparisons of these data with similar regions around the world, Land of the Tejas examines a full scope of previously overlooked details. From the enigmatic Jumano Indian leader Juan Sabata to Spanish friar Casanas's 1691 account of the vast Native American Tejas alliance, Arnn's study shines new light on Texas's poorly understood past and debunks long-held misconceptions of prehistory and history while proposing a provocative new approach to the process by which we attempt to reconstruct the history of humanity.
Author : John W. Tunnell
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623492750
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend written by John W. Tunnell and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2015-05-15 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Harold F. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the nearby shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay and what is now called Port Bay, a southern arm of the larger Copano Bay. A lifelong natural history enthusiast and collector, Pape met and married Lucile H. Tunnell, a widow with three young sons. Before long, John W. Tunnell, Lucile’s oldest son, was accompanying Pape on his field studies in surrounding areas and the wider Texas Coastal Bend. Working in the days before much of the development that now covers the region, Pape and Tunnell studied more than two hundred sites throughout the Coastal Bend, making meticulous logs, maps, and notes of their discoveries. John W. (Wes) Tunnell Jr. and Jace Tunnell have organized and documented their family collection and present it, along with brief biographies of the two collectors, as a survey of the state of knowledge in the late 1920s and 1930s, as well as a tribute to these two important early researchers and their body of work.
Author : Michael J. O'Brien
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 0262037831
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (62 download)
Download or read book Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology written by Michael J. O'Brien and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2018-04-20 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Scholars from a variety of disciplines consider cases of convergence in lithic technology, when functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Hominins began using stone tools at least 2.6 million years ago, perhaps even 3.4 million years ago. Given the nearly ubiquitous use of stone tools by humans and their ancestors, the study of lithic technology offers an important line of inquiry into questions of evolution and behavior. This book examines convergence in stone tool-making, cases in which functional or developmental constraints result in similar forms in independent lineages. Identifying examples of convergence, and distinguishing convergence from divergence, refutes hypotheses that suggest physical or cultural connection between far-flung prehistoric toolmakers. Employing phylogenetic analysis and stone-tool replication, the contributors show that similarity of tools can be caused by such common constraints as the fracture properties of stone or adaptive challenges rather than such unlikely phenomena as migration of toolmakers over an Arctic ice shelf. Contributors R. Alexander Bentley, Briggs Buchanan, Marcelo Cardillo, Mathieu Charbonneau, Judith Charlin, Chris Clarkson, Loren G. Davis, Metin I. Eren, Peter Hiscock, Thomas A. Jennings, Steven L. Kuhn, Daniel E. Lieberman, George R. McGhee, Alex Mackay, Michael J. O'Brien, Charlotte D. Pevny, Ceri Shipton, Ashley M. Smallwood, Heather Smith, Jayne Wilkins, Samuel C. Willis, Nicolas Zayns
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Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book International Bridge Crossings Along the United States-Mexico Border from El Paso to Brownsville written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 486 pages
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Download or read book International Bridge Crossings Along the United States - Mexico Border from El Paso to Brownsville, TX, Programmatic EIS written by and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jon C. Lohse
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
ISBN 13 : 1623499771
Total Pages : 1086 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (234 download)
Download or read book The Calf Creek Horizon written by Jon C. Lohse and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-18 with total page 1086 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Often characterized by distinctive chipped-stone technology, the Calf Creek cultural horizon made its first appearance in the central and southern plains of North America some six thousand years ago. Distributed over a known area of more than 500,000 square miles, it is one of the largest post-Paleoindian archaeological cultural complexes identified to date. One of the most notable aspects of Calf Creek culture is its distinctive, deeply notched bifaces, many of which show evidence of heat-treating. Recent targeted dating suggests that these unique traits, which required exacting knapping and other techniques for production, arose in a relatively narrow window, sometime around 5,950–5,700 calendar years before the present. Given the wide geographical distribution of Calf Creek artifacts, however, researchers surmise that these technological innovations, once adopted, spread fairly quickly throughout the associated cultural groups. Editors Jon C. Lohse, Marjorie A. Duncan, and Don G. Wyckoff have collected in this comprehensive volume much of what is currently known about the Calf Creek cultural horizon. In a collaboration involving professional and academic archaeologists, landowners, and avocationalists, The Calf Creek Horizon brings together for the first time in a single source fine details of geographic distribution, regional variability, typology, and technological aspects of Calf Creek material culture. This first-ever “big picture” view will inform and direct related research for years to come.
Author : Dan M. Worrall
Publisher : Concertina Press (www.concertinapressbooks.com)
ISBN 13 : 0982599633
Total Pages : 504 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (825 download)
Download or read book A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas written by Dan M. Worrall and published by Concertina Press (www.concertinapressbooks.com). This book was released on 2021-01-02 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Houston and Southeast Texas have an ancient, storied prehistory. Using data from hundreds of archeological site reports, a changing coastal landscape modeled through time in 3D, historical information on Native Americans taken from the accounts of the earliest European visitors, and digital GIS mapping to weave it all together, this book recounts the development of the physical landscape of this region and the cultures of its Native American inhabitants from the peak of the last ice age until the Spanish colonial era. Its 504 pages are illustrated with nearly 350 full color maps, charts, drawings and photographs.
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Total Pages : 720 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Celeron/All American and Getty Pipeline Projects, Proposed (CA,TX) written by and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 720 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Richard B. Taylor
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292763069
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)
Download or read book Common Woody Plants and Cacti of South Texas written by Richard B. Taylor and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Woody plants and cacti are vital staple foods for cattle, deer, and other wildlife in drought-prone South Texas. Ranchers, hunters, and land managers who need to identify these plants relied on A Field Guide to Common South Texas Shrubs (published by Texas Parks & Wildlife Press and distributed by UT Press), which is no longer in print. Responding to ongoing demand for the book, Richard B. Taylor has completely updated and expanded it with seven new species, new photographs, and a quick plant identification key. Common Woody Plants and Cacti of South Texas is an easy-to-use plant identification field guide to fifty species that comprise an estimated 90 percent of the region’s woody canopy cover north of the Rio Grande Valley. The species accounts include photographs, descriptions, values to livestock and wildlife, and nutritional information. The book also provides historical perspectives and information on brush management techniques and strategies, as well as habitat appraisal. All of these resources will enable readers to analyze stocking rates for deer and cattle, evaluate a prospective hunting lease, or buy property.
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Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (555 download)
Download or read book Maintenance Dredging of the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway Laguna Madre, Nueces, Kleberg, Kenedy, Willacy and Cameron Counties written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
