A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas
A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas

Author: Dan M. Worrall

Publisher: Concertina Press (www.concertinapressbooks.com)

Published: 2021-01-02

Total Pages: 504

ISBN-13: 0982599633

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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.

The Woodland Southeast
The Woodland Southeast

Author: David G. Anderson

Publisher: University of Alabama Press

Published: 2002-05-10

Total Pages: 697

ISBN-13: 0817311378

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This collection presents, for the first time, a much-needed synthesis of the major research themes and findings that characterize the Woodland Period in the southeastern United States. The Woodland Period (ca. 1200 B.C. to A.D. 1000) has been the subject of a great deal of archaeological research over the past 25 years. Researchers have learned that in this approximately 2000-year era the peoples of the Southeast experienced increasing sedentism, population growth, and organizational complexity. At the beginning of the period, people are assumed to have been living in small groups, loosely bound by collective burial rituals. But by the first millennium A.D., some parts of the region had densely packed civic ceremonial centers ruled by hereditary elites. Maize was now the primary food crop. Perhaps most importantly, the ancient animal-focused and hunting-based religion and cosmology were being replaced by solar and warfare iconography, consistent with societies dependent on agriculture, and whose elites were increasingly in competition with one another. This volume synthesizes the research on what happened during this era and how these changes came about while analyzing the period's archaeological record. In gathering the latest research available on the Woodland Period, the editors have included contributions from the full range of specialists working in the field, highlighted major themes, and directed readers to the proper primary sources. Of interest to archaeologists and anthropologists, both professional and amateur, this will be a valuable reference work essential to understanding the Woodland Period in the Southeast.

Excavations at Pot Creek Pueblo
Excavations at Pot Creek Pueblo

Author: Ronald K. Wetherington

Publisher:

Published: 1968

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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This report on the excavations at Pot Creek Pueblo adds significantly to the understanding of the internal cultural development of early pueblo life in the Taos District, and the external influences impinging upon it. The document covers previous investigations, physiology of the Taos district, description of the site and excavation techniques, architecture, ceramics, settlement patterns in the Northern Rio Grande, taxonomy and development periods, settlement in the Taos district, settlements to the south and east, conclusions, and a bibliography.

The Strawberry Hill Site (41SJ160)
The Strawberry Hill Site (41SJ160)

Author: Timothy Perttula

Publisher:

Published: 2018-03-07

Total Pages: 54

ISBN-13: 9781985728660

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The Strawberry Hill site (41SJ160) was excavated by the State Department of Highways and Public Transportation (now the Texas Department of Transportation) in 1974 in advance of a proposed expansion to F.M. 2693 in west central San Jacinto County in southeastern Texas. The site is only a few miles north of the original extent of Big Thicket vegetation in the region.This part of Southeast Texas has been occupied by aboriginal peoples from as early as ca. 13,000 years B.P., during the Paleoindian period, but mainly consists of sites that were used during Archaic (ca. 9,000-2,000 years B.P.), Woodland or Early Ceramic (ca. 2,000-1,000 years B.P.), and Late Prehistoric (ca. 1,000-250 years B.P.) periods. During historic period times, the region was home to the Bidai and Atakapa groups in the lower reaches of the Sabine, Neches, and Trinity River basins.The archeological record for both the Paleoindian and Archaic periods is marked by the recovery of a variety of chipped and ground stone tools from sites that were apparently occupied on short term and seasonal bases by hunting-gathering groups. By the Late Archaic, if not earlier, "a shift to the use of poorer quality and more local lithic resources...suggests reduced group mobility and more tightly defined group territories". The Paleoindian period lanceolate projectile points include Clovis, Dalton, San Patrice, Pelican, Angostura and Scottsbluff types, and the later Archaic period assemblages includes a variety of expanding and parallel-stemmed forms in Early, Middle, and Late Archaic period occupations, and Kent, Ensor, Godley, and Gary points throughout the latter part of the Late Archaic and Woodland periods. The Woodland or Early Ceramic period artifact assemblages in inland Southeast Texas have ceramic vessels, particularly sandy paste wares of the Goose Creek Plain series, including a few Goose Creek Incised vessels; Lower Mississippi Valley Tchefuncte and Marksville wares occur in low frequencies in inland Southeast Texas Woodland period sites. Sites of this period are part of the Mossy Grove tradition, and the major archeological component at the Strawberry Hill site is of the Mossy Grove tradition, and this is the focus of the ceramic studies to be discussed.