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The prehistory of Texas / edited by Timothy K. Perttula.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 9.
- Texas A & M University anthropology series ; no. 9
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paleo-Indians--Texas.
- Paleo-Indians.
- Hunting and gathering societies--Texas.
- Hunting and gathering societies.
- Indians of North America--Texas--Antiquities.
- Indians of North America.
- Excavations (Archaeology)--Texas--History.
- Excavations (Archaeology).
- Texas--Antiquities.
- Texas.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (480 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2004.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Perttula provides cutting-edge research from dozens of experts on the varied experience of native peoples who lived in prehistoric Texas through 1600 A.D. He includes a reclassification of all known Paleoindian projectile point types and traces 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.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- PART I Texas Prehistory
- 1 An Introduction to Texas Prehistoric Archeology
- 2 Paleoindian Archeology in Texas
- PART II The Hunter-Gatherers of the Central andSouthern Texas Prairies and Plains
- 3 Archeology in Central Texas
- 4 The Prehistory of South Texas
- PART III Coastal Groups
- 5 Prehistoric Occupation of the Central and Lower Texas Coast
- 6 The Archeology of the Native AmericanOccupation of Southeast Texas
- PART IV The Desert Archeology of Western Texas
- 7 Prehistory of the Jornada Mogollon and EasternTrans-Pecos Regions of West Texas
- 8 The Lower Pecos River Region of Texasand Northern Mexico
- PART V The Hunters and Farmers of the High Plains and Canyonlands
- 9 Archeology and Late Quaternary Environmentsof the Southern High Plains
- 10 The Palo Duro Complex
- 11 From Stone Slab Architecture to Abandonment.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 409-469).
- ISBN:
- 1-299-05350-5
- 1-60344-649-4
- OCLC:
- 726829025
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