Author: Louis F. AulbachPublisher: Louis F. Aulbach
ISBN: 0976521342
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
The Lower Canyons of the Rio Grande
Author: Louis F. AulbachPublisher: Louis F. Aulbach
ISBN: 0976521342
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 106
Book Description
From the Frio to Del Rio
Author: Mary S. BlackPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623495091
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
Each year, more than two million visitors enjoy the attractions of the Western Hill Country, with Uvalde as its portal, and the lower Pecos River canyonlands, which stretch roughly along US 90 from Brackettville, through Del Rio, and on to the west. Amistad National Recreation Area, the Judge Roy Bean Visitors’ Center and Botanical Garden, Seminole Canyon State Park, and the Briscoe-Garner Museum in Uvalde, along with ghost towns, ancient rock art, sweeping vistas, and unique flora and fauna, are just a few of the features that make this distinctive section of the Lone Star State an enticing destination. Now, veteran writer, blogger, and educator Mary S. Black serves up the best of this region’s special adventures and secret treasures. From the Frio to Del Rio is chock-full of helpful maps, colorful photography, and tips on where to stay, what to do, and how to get there. In addition there are details for 10 scenic routes, 3 historic forts and 7 state parks and other recreation areas.
Pecos River Style Rock Art
Author: James Burr Harrison MacraePublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623496411
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 114
Book Description
Pecos River style pictographs are one of the most complex forms of rock art worldwide. The dramatic prehistoric pictographs on the limestone overhangs of the lower Pecos and Devils Rivers in West Texas have been the subject of preservation and study since the 1930s, and dedicated research continues to this day. The medium is large-scale, polychrome pictographs in open rock shelter settings, emphasizing the animistic/shamanistic religion practiced by the local aboriginal peoples. Creating large-scale rock murals required intelligence, skill, and knowledge. These enigmatic images, some dating to 4,500 years ago and possibly earlier, depict strange, vaguely human and animal shapes and various geometric forms. While full understanding of the meaning of these images is abstruse, archaeologists and other scholars have identified what they believe to be patterns and religious themes, mixed with what could be figures and objects from everyday life in the local hunter-gatherer culture as it existed in the region centuries before the arrival of colonizing Europeans. Although interpretation of these pictographs remains controversial, in Pecos River Style Rock Art: A Prehistoric Iconography, James Burr Harrison Macrae contributes to the beginnings of a syntactic “grammar” for these images that can be applied in diverse contexts without direct reference to any particular interpretation. “The strength of structural-iconographic analysis,” Macrae writes, “is that it relies on repetitive patterns rather than idiosyncratic information, such as trying to make broad inferences from one or only a few sites.” Pecos River Style Rock Art offers the framework of an empirical methodology for understanding these ancient artworks.
Devils River
Author: Louis F. AulbachPublisher: Louis F. Aulbach
ISBN: 0976521334
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
The Lower Pecos River, Pandale to Lake Amistad
Author: Louis F. AulbachPublisher: Louis F. Aulbach
ISBN: 9780976521327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
Rivers of Texas
Author: Verne HuserPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585443697
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 268
Book Description
Explores the landscape, history, geology, and recreational opportunities afforded by the rivers of Texas, presenting information about each river's size, location, tributaries, discharge, and special sites.
Texas Whitewater
Author: Stephen Hartley DanielPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1603446532
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 265
Book Description
Texas and whitewater. Who knew? According to veteran paddler Steve Daniel, one doesn't have to be an outdoors expert to find whitewater fun and adventure in the Lone Star State. Sometimes all that's needed is a little rain and perseverance - and this handy guide to Texas rivers and creeks with the greatest prospects for whitewater.
Plains Anthropologist
Author: Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
Author: Carolyn E. BoydPublisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9781585442591
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 168
Book Description
Boyd seed a way that hunter-gatherer artists expressed their belief systems; provided a mechanism for social and environmental adaptation; and acted as agents in the social, economic, and ideological affairs of the community. She offers detailed information gleaned from the art regarding the nature of the Lower Pecos cosmos, ritual practices involving the use of sacramental and medicinal plants, and hunter-gatherer lifeways.
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