Author: Cynthia L. Tennis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Prehistoric Land Use of Upper Leon Creek Terraces
Author: Cynthia L. Tennis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The Prehistory of Texas
Author: Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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.
From the Pleistocene to the Holocene
Author: C. Britt Bousman
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies. Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing environmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors' research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesizing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current archaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603447601
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 346
Book Description
The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies. Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing environmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors' research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesizing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current archaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change.
Phase II Archaeological Investigations at Lackland Air Force Base, San Antonio, Texas
Author: Brett Alan Houk
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bexar County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bexar County (Tex.)
Languages : en
Pages : 266
Book Description
Archaeological Testing at Crook's Park in San Marcos, Hays County, Texas
Author: Diane A. Cargill
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Archaeological surveying
Languages : en
Pages : 48
Book Description
Archeology Along the Wurzbach Parkway
Author:
Publisher: Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Higgins site, 41BX184, is a mainly prehistoric site (spanning the last 6,000 to 7,000 years) containing abundant remains and is situated on a middle to late Holocene terrace along Panther Springs Creek in northern Bexar County. It was archaeologically investigated in 1992 and 1993 as part of work done along the Wurzbach Parkway in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
Publisher: Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, the University of Texas at Austin
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
The Higgins site, 41BX184, is a mainly prehistoric site (spanning the last 6,000 to 7,000 years) containing abundant remains and is situated on a middle to late Holocene terrace along Panther Springs Creek in northern Bexar County. It was archaeologically investigated in 1992 and 1993 as part of work done along the Wurzbach Parkway in accordance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act.
At the Vanishing Point
Author: Kelly R. McGuire
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985201685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unique among Great Basin archaeological studies, this volume presents the results of a massive excavation program directed at five open-air sites. These sites are clustered adjacent to several springs of uncertain reliability, bound to the north by the lifeless expanse of the Black Rock playa, and to the south by dune fields, alluvial fans, and barren hills marginal by even Great Basin standards. Within this forbidding landscape, Native peoples somehow eked out a living at various times during the Holocene, tied to the vicissitudes of climate change. Full-blown residential activity springs to life during wet periods, only to be eclipsed by the next drought cycle. This dynamic archaeological record provides not only insight into the adaptive responses associated with environmental instability, but also commentary on a host of other research themes, including the rise of residential stability and logistical hunting, toolstone use and conveyance, shifts in domestic and habitation patterns, resource intensification, as well as a surprising reorganization of settlement strategy during the final period of prehistoric occupation.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985201685
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Unique among Great Basin archaeological studies, this volume presents the results of a massive excavation program directed at five open-air sites. These sites are clustered adjacent to several springs of uncertain reliability, bound to the north by the lifeless expanse of the Black Rock playa, and to the south by dune fields, alluvial fans, and barren hills marginal by even Great Basin standards. Within this forbidding landscape, Native peoples somehow eked out a living at various times during the Holocene, tied to the vicissitudes of climate change. Full-blown residential activity springs to life during wet periods, only to be eclipsed by the next drought cycle. This dynamic archaeological record provides not only insight into the adaptive responses associated with environmental instability, but also commentary on a host of other research themes, including the rise of residential stability and logistical hunting, toolstone use and conveyance, shifts in domestic and habitation patterns, resource intensification, as well as a surprising reorganization of settlement strategy during the final period of prehistoric occupation.
The Archaeology of the Frontier in the Medieval Near East
Author: Scott Redford
Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Excavations that begain in 1981 in Gritille, Turkey, were in search of Bronze and Iron Age material but, instead, archaeologists discovered important evidence for the medieval boundary between Islam and Christianity.
Publisher: Archaeological Institute of America
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Excavations that begain in 1981 in Gritille, Turkey, were in search of Bronze and Iron Age material but, instead, archaeologists discovered important evidence for the medieval boundary between Islam and Christianity.
The Prehistory of Texas
Author: Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The first look at the prehistory of Texas by 16 professional archaeologist.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441945
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
The first look at the prehistory of Texas by 16 professional archaeologist.
Springs of Texas
Author: Gunnar M. Brune
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585441969
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 616
Book Description
This text explores the natural history of Texas and more than 2900 springs in 183 Texas counties. It also includes an in-depth discussion of the general characteristics of springs - their physical and prehistoric settings, their historical significance, and their associated flora and fauna.