Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archaeology of the State

Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archaeology of the State

by Robert Marcom
Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archaeology of the State

Digging Up Texas: A Guide to the Archaeology of the State

by Robert Marcom

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Overview

Take a guided tour of more than 15,000 years of life in Texas


Mr. Marcom has authored a volume that makes the incredibly diverse archaeological record of Texas accessible to interested laypersons and beginning avocational archaeologists.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781461625728
Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
Publication date: 11/01/2002
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 251
File size: 4 MB

Table of Contents

Forewordvii
Introductionix
Chapter 1Past Lifeways, Texas Style1
Chapter 2The First Texans15
Chapter 3Ancient Material Culture43
Chapter 4Archaic to Proto-historic Cultures of Texas61
Chapter 5Woodlands Material Culture79
Chapter 6The Spanish and the French--Colonization of Texas93
Chapter 7Tejas and the "Gringo" Invasion111
Chapter 8The Old Frontier: The Red River Wars123
Chapter 9The Levi Jordan Plantation Site: Study in Historical Archaeology149
Chapter 10The American Indians in Texas165
Chapter 112002 Texas Archaeological Society Field School--a personal account187
Chapter 12Public Archaeology203
Chapter 13State Historical Commission and the Archaeology of Texas223
Chapter 14Resources for Avocational Archaeology237
Concluding Comments243
Bibliography247
Index249
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