Author: David L. CarmichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Paso (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Archaeological Excavations at Two Prehistoric Campsites Near Keystone Dam, El Paso, Texas
Author: David L. CarmichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Paso (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Archeological Excavations at Two Prehistoric Campsites Near Keystone Dam, El Paso, Texas
Author: David L. CarmichaelPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : El Paso (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Two prehistoric campsites on the west side of El Paso, Texas were excavated in order to mitigate the adverse effects caused by the construction of the Keystone Dam Highway Diversion Channel. Keystone Sites 36 and 37 (41EP496 and 41EP492) are small lithic and ceramic scatters located at the eastern margin of the Rio Grande Valley, adjacent to Interstate Highway 10. Both sites functioned as short-term camps for the procurement and processing of leaf succulents, as indicated by the presence of large fire-cracked rock roasting facilities. The most significant results of the study concern chronology and the roles played by the sites in relation to prehistoric adaptive strategies. A new method of obsidian hydration was used to obtain a large number of direct chronometric dates. These were used to evaluate the C14 dates and it was concluded that some radiocarbon chronologies in the E1 Paso area are hampered by the effects of the old wood problem. The obsidian results also indicate a date of A.D. 1100-1400 for Site 37 which had originally been assigned to the late Archaic. Analyses of variability and distribution in the sits' contents reveal that they may be the result of two different mobility patterns. Site 36 is interpreted as a short-term logistic camp and Site 37 as a short-term base camp. The late date for Site 37 argues for the existence of a generalized, highly mobile adaptive strategy at roughly the same time as more sedentary Pueblo-based strategies.
The DIVAD Archaeological Project
Author: Raymond P. MauldinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 104
Book Description
The Prehistory of Texas
Author: Timothy K. PerttulaPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603446494
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 480
Book Description
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.
Archaeological Investigations at Pueblo Sin Casas (FB6273), a Multicomponent Site in the Hueco Bolson, Fort Bliss, Texas
Author: Michael S. FosterPublisher:
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Category : El Paso County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 100
Book Description
Excavation
Author: David L. CarmichaelPublisher: Rowman Altamira
ISBN: 9780759100190
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
An introduction to excavation methods for archaeologists.
Perspectives On Southwestern Prehistory
Author: Paul MinnisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000301478
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 386
Book Description
Recent archaeoglogical work in the American Southwest and Northern Mexico has fueled a great deal of regionally specific research: archaeologists, faced with an avalanche of new and unassimilated data, tend to foucs on their own areas to the exclusion of the broader, panregional view. "Perspectives on Southwestern Prehistory" advocates the larger f
General Technical Report RM.
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Forests and forestry
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The El Paso Loop 375 Archaeological Project
Author: James Philip DeringPublisher: Texas Department of Transportation
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
Human Adaptations and Cultural Change in the Greater Southwest
Author: Alan H. SimmonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description