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.)

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.

Texas--Antiquities--Congresses.

Texas.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (274 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

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

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 vo

Contents:

The Toyah phase in Texas: an introduction and retrospective / Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Douglas K. Boyd

The Toyah phase and the ethnohistorical record: a case for population aggregation / Nancy A. Kenmotsu and John W. Arnn III

Defining hunter-gatherer sociocultural identity and interaction at a regional scale: the Toyah/Tejas social field / John W. Arnn III

The role of exotic materials in Toyah assemblages in a late prehistoric economic and social system / Karl W. Kibler

Reconsidering the role of bison in the terminal late prehistoric (Toyah) period in Texas / Raymond Mauldin, Jennifer Thompson, and Leonard Kemp

Bone processing and subsistence stress in late prehistoric south Texas / Zackary I. Gilmore

What is northern Toyah phase?: the Toyah phenomenon on the Texas southern plains / Douglas K. Boyd

Plains-Pueblo interaction: a view from the "middle" / John D. Speth and Khori Newlander

Toyah: reflections on evolving perceptions / Elton R. Prewitt.

Notes:

"This volume contains eight chapters and a peer review. Most were first presented in a symposium at the 72nd annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology in Austin."--ECIP chapter 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-283-58438-7

9786613896834

1-60344-755-5

OCLC:

813285484