The Toyah phase of central Texas : late prehistoric economic and social processes / edited by Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Douglas K. Boyd.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Boyd, Douglas K. (Douglas Kevin)

Kenmotsu, Nancy Adele.

Society for American Archaeology. Meeting 2007 : Austin, Tex.)

ebrary, Inc.

Series:

Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 16.

Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 16

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Antiquities, Prehistoric--Texas--Congresses.

Antiquities, Prehistoric.

Indians of North America--Material culture--Texas--Congresses.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--Texas--Ethnic identity--Congresses.

Indians of North America--Texas--History--Congresses.

Toyah culture--Texas--Congresses.

Toyah culture.

Antiquities.

History.

Ethnicity.

Indians of North America--Material culture.

Texas--Antiquities--Congresses.

Texas.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 254 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

College Station : Texas A&M University Press, 2012.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Reconsidering connections among indigenous North American peoples at the beginnings of European settlement...

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition.

Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite recent, offer other views of this culture, whose homeland covered much of Central and South Texas. For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together a number of perspectives and interpretations of these hunter-gatherers and how they interacted with each other, the pueblos in southeastern New Mexico, the mobile groups in northern Mexico, and new-comers from the northern plains such as the Apache and Comanche.

Assembling eight studies and interpretive essays to look at social boundaries from the perspective of migration, hunter-farmer interactions, subsistence, and other issues significant to anthropologists and archaeologists, The Toyah Phase of Central Texas: Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes demonstrates that these prehistoric societies were never isolated from the world around them. Rather, these societies were keenly aware of changes happening on the plains to their north, among the Caddoan groups east of them, in the Puebloan groups in what is now new Mexico, and among their neighbors to the south in Mexico.

The synthesis this volume offers will be important to researchers working in adjacent areas, who will find parallels and differences that may creatively challenge their own findings. Readers of The Toyah Phase of Central Texas: Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes will also gain an appreciation of the complex, intertwined nature of late prehistoric life-styles in North America. Book jacket.

Contents:

1 The Toyah Phase in Texas: An Introduction and Retrospective / Nancy A. Kenmotsu Kenmotsu, Nancy A., Douglas K. Boyd Boyd, Douglas K. 1

2 The Toyah Phase and the Ethnohistorical Record: A Case for Population Aggregation / Nancy A. Kenmotsu Kenmotsu, Nancy A., John W. Arnn III Arnn, John W. III 19

3 Defining Hunter-Gatherer Sociocultural Identity and Interaction at a Regional Scale: The Toyah/Tejas Social Field / John W. Arnn III Arnn, John W. III 44

4 The Role of Exotic Materials in Toyah Assemblages in a Late Prehistoric Economic and Social System / Karl W. Kibler Kibler, Karl W. 76

5 Reconsidering the Role of Bison in the Terminal Late Prehistoric (Toyah) Period in Texas / Raymond Mauldin Mauldin, Raymond, Jennifer Thompson Thompson, Jennifer, Leonard Kemp Kemp, Leonard 90

6 Bone Processing and Subsistence Stress in Late Prehistoric South Texas / Zackary I. Gilmore Gilmore, Zackary I. 111

7 What Is Northern Toyah Phase? The Toyah Phenomenon on the Texas Southern Plains / Douglas K. Boyd Boyd, Douglas K. 128

8 Plains-Pueblo Interaction: A View from the "Middle" / John D. Speth Speth, John D., Khori Newlander Newlander, Khori 152

9 Toyah: Reflections on Evolving Perceptions / Elton R. Prewitt Prewitt, Elton R. 181.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2011. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

OCLC:

813285484

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