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Author: Dale Hudler
Publisher: Texas Department of Transportation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 380
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Author: Dale Hudler
Publisher: Texas Department of Transportation
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 380
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 345
ISBN-13: 0292773811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhy and when human societies shifted from nomadic hunting and gathering to settled agriculture engages the interest of scholars around the world. One of the most fruitful areas in which to study this issue is the North American Southwest, where Late Archaic inhabitants of the Sonoran and Chihuahuan Deserts of Mexico, Arizona, and New Mexico turned to farming while their counterparts in Trans-Pecos and South Texas continued to forage. By investigating the environmental, biological, and cultural factors that led to these differing patterns of development, we can identify some of the necessary conditions for the rise of agriculture and the corresponding evolution of village life. The twelve papers in this volume synthesize previous and ongoing research and offer new theoretical models to provide the most up-to-date picture of life during the Late Archaic (from 3,000 to 1,500 years ago) across the entire North American Borderlands. Some of the papers focus on specific research topics such as stone tool technology and mobility patterns. Others study the development of agriculture across whole regions within the Borderlands. The two concluding papers trace pan-regional patterns in the adoption of farming and also link them to the growth of agriculture in other parts of the world.
Author: John Wesley Arnn
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2014-05-23
Total Pages: 317
ISBN-13: 0292768060
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCombining 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: Nancy Adele Kenmotsu
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012-10-02
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 1603446907
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn 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.
Author: Andrew H. Price
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2009-10-14
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 0292719671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIdentifies venomous snakes that are native to Texas. Provides advice on preventing and treating snakebite.
Author: Ellen Sue Turner
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publications
Published: 2011-12-16
Total Pages: 367
ISBN-13: 1589794656
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUseful 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: Texas Archeological Society
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Published: 2006
Total Pages: 192
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Anna J. Taylor
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 460
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 2576
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: University of Calgary. Archaeological Association. Conference
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Published: 2011
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780889533547
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