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Clovis Blade Technology
A Comparative Study of the Keven Davis Cache, Texas
Av Michael B. Collins, Marvin Kay
Häftad, 2002
395 kr
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Around 11,000 years ago, a Paleoindian culture known to us as "Clovis" occupied much of North America. Considered to be among the continent's earliest human inhabitants, the Clovis peoples were probably nomadic hunters and gatherers whose remaining traces include camp sites and caches of goods …
Espíritu Santo De Zúñiga
A Frontier Mission in South Texas
Häftad, 2007
283 kr
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San Antonio Conservation Society Citation, 2009In the early part of the eighteenth century, the Spanish colonial mission EspÍritu Santo de ZÚÑiga was relocated from far south Texas to a site along the Guadalupe River in Mission Valley, Victoria County. This mission, along with a handful of others …
Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices During the Central Texas Archaic
Häftad, 1995
225 kr
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Beginning over 10,000 years ago and continuing until the arrival of the Spanish in the 1500s, hunter and gatherer societies occupied the Edwards Plateau of central Texas. Archaeological studies over the past eighty years have reconstructed their subsistence, technology, and settlement patterns, but …
Prehistory of the Rustler Hills
Granado Cave
Häftad, 2001
341 kr
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The Northeastern Trans-Pecos region of Texas is an unforgiving environment for anyone living off the land, yet nomadic hunters and gatherers roamed its deserts and mountains and sheltered in caves and sinkholes from around AD 200 to 1450. This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of …
Late Archaic Across the Borderlands
From Foraging to Farming
Häftad, 2005
370 kr
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Why 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 …
Comanche Vocabulary
Trilingual Edition
Häftad, 1995
218 kr
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The Comanche Vocabulary collected in Mexico during the years 1861-1864 by Manuel GarcÍa RejÓn is by far the most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867. It preserves words and concepts that have since changed or even …
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
Häftad, 1990
218 kr
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Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples. Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the sixteenth through …
Paleoindian Geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains
Häftad, 1997
341 kr
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The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. These sites have been extensively researched over decades, not only by archaeologists but also by …
We Came Naked and Barefoot
The Journey of Cabeza De Vaca Across North America
Av Alex D. Krieger, Margery H. Krieger
Häftad, 2003
370 kr
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Second place, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 2003Perhaps no one has ever been such a survivor as Álvar NÚÑez Cabeza de Vaca. Member of a 600-man expedition sent out from Spain to colonize "La Florida" in 1527, he survived a failed exploration of the west coast of Florida, …
Archaeology of La Calsada
A Rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico
Häftad, 2013
283 kr
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On a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo LeÓn in northern Mexico. This comprehensive site …
Caddo Nation
Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
Häftad, 1997
341 kr
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First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, …
Karankawa Indians of Texas
An Ecological Study of Cultural Tradition and Change
Häftad, 1996
283 kr
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Popular lore has long depicted the Karankawa Indians as primitive scavengers (perhaps even cannibals) who eked out a meager subsistence from fishing, hunting and gathering on the Texas coastal plains. That caricature, according to Robert Ricklis, hides the reality of a people who were well-adapted …
Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799
Häftad, 2003
486 kr
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2003 – Texas Old Missions and Forts Restoration Association Book Award Winner – Texas Catholic Historical Society2004 – Finalist: Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for Book Making the Most Significant Contribution to Knowledge – Texas Institute of LettersThe region that now encompasses …
