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Author : Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015011606608
This book is about, Indians of North America, Rock painting - Texas, Petroglyphs - Texas, Antiquities, Pecos River Valley.
Author : Wesley Treat,Heather Shades,Rob Riggs
Publisher : Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2009-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1402766874
"If your taste extends to the odd side of traveling, [this is your ticket]."--"Booklist."
Author : Bruce A. Glasrud,Robert J. Mallouf
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781623491055
The Big Bend region of Texas—variously referred to as “El Despoblado” (the uninhabited land), “a land of contrasts,” “Texas’ last frontier,” or simply as part of the Trans-Pecos—enjoys a long, colorful, and eventful history, a history that began before written records were maintained. With Big Bend’s Ancient and Modern Past, editors Bruce A. Glasrud and Robert J. Mallouf provide a helpful compilation of articles originally published in the Journal of Big Bend Studies, reviewing the unique past of the Big Bend area from the earliest habitation to 1900. Scholars of the region investigate not only the peoples who have successively inhabited it but also the nature of the environment and the responses to that environment. As the studies in this book demonstrate, the character of the region has, to a great extent, dictated its history. The study of Big Bend history is also the study of borderlands history. Studying and researching across borders or boundaries, whether national, state, or regional, requires a focus on the factors that often both unite and divide the inhabitants. The dual nature of citizenship, of land holding, of legal procedures and remedies, of education, and of history permeate the lives and livelihoods of past and present residents of the Big Bend.
Author : Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : WISC:89060391745
This book is about, Indians of North America, Rock painting - Texas, Petroglyphs - Texas, Antiquities, Pecos River Valley.
Author : David Wescott
Publisher : Gibbs Smith
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2001-08-20
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1586850989
The Stone Age is the common denominator of mankind, and through experimental archeology—the relearning and replication of ancient skills—we take a step of discovery and understanding into this rich past. In this collection, drawn from the pages of the Bulletin of Primitive Technology, learn to create tools to fabricate more complex technologies; master the arts of the bow and arrow; build a shelter or fashion clothing from fibers or buckskin. Primitive Technology II: Ancestral Skills provides the guide to rediscovery of the skills and crafts that bind us all into this great human family.
Author : Tex Midkiff
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : History
ISBN : 9781467146036
The heritage of East Texas partakes in the same degree of unexpected turns and hidden depths as its backroads and bayous. One line of inquiry meanders into another. Start out searching for La Salle's grave and end up chasing Spanish gold in Upshur County. From Sam Houston's Bible to the Longview nightclub that hosted both Frank Sinatra and Elvis Presley, one tale follows another and introduces a cast of characters that includes Candace and Peter Ellis Bean, Old Rip, Jack Lummus and Vernon Wayne Howell. Part the Pine Curtain with Tex Midkiff for a history as heated as the La Grange Chicken Ranch's parlor and irresistible as a batch of Golden sweet potatoes.
Author : Richard C. Bartlett
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2010-06-28
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0292792077
With a deep belief in partnerships for conservation, Richard C. Bartlett, Chairman of The Nature Conservancy of Texas, explores the past and ongoing efforts of individuals and groups—private, public, federal, and state—to save the best of Texas' natural landscapes and the myriad species of plants and animals they support. Drawing on some 100,000 miles of backroads travel, Bartlett vividly describes many of the areas that, through a commitment to partnerships, have already been preserved in their natural state. Fine color photographs by Leroy Williamson provide a striking visual counterpoint to the text. These words and images give well-deserved credit to the people responsible for saving some of the best of Texas. They also highlight the need to continue to join together to preserve our natural environment so that the beauty and diversity we enjoy today will be available for future generations. It is the author's hope that Saving the Best of Texas will be a catalyst in that process.
Author : June Naylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-08
Category : Travel
ISBN : 9780762777396
Texas Off the Beaten Path features the things travelers and locals want to see and experience––if only they knew about them. From the best in local dining to quirky cultural tidbits to hidden attractions, unique finds, and unusual locales, Texas Off the Beaten Path takes the reader down the road less traveled and reveals a side of Texas that other guidebooks just don't offer.
Author : Jamie Hampson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781315420721
Why did the ancient artists create paintings and engravings? What did the images mean? This careful study of rock art motifs in the Trans-Pecos area of Texas and a small area in South Africa demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in order to investigate and explain the significance of rock art motifs. Using two disparate regions shows the possibility of comparative rock art studies and highlights the importance of regional studies and regional variations. This is an ideal resource for students and researchers.
Author : June Naylor
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2008-11-25
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780762762439
Author : Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 899 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2003-08-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199881383
In Gone to Texas, historian Randolph Campbell ranges from the first arrival of humans in the Panhandle some 10,000 years ago to the dawn of the twenty-first century, offering an interpretive account of the land, the successive waves of people who have gone to Texas, and the conflicts that have made Texas as much a metaphor as a place. Campbell presents the epic tales of Texas history in a new light, offering revisionist history in the best sense--broadening and deepening the traditional story, without ignoring the heroes of the past. The scope of the book is impressive. It ranges from the archeological record of early Native Americans to the rise of the oil industry and ultimately the modernization of Texas. Campbell provides swift-moving accounts of the Mexican revolution against Spain, the arrival of settlers from the United States, and the lasting Spanish legacy (from place names to cattle ranching to civil law). The author also paints a rich portrait of the Anglo-Texan revolution, with its larger-than-life leaders and epic battles, the fascinating decade of the Republic of Texas, and annexation by the United States. In his account of the Civil War and Reconstruction, he examines developments both in local politics and society and in the nation at large (from the debate over secession to the role of Texas troops in the Confederate army to the impact of postwar civil rights laws). Late nineteenth-century Texas is presented as part of both the Old West and the New South. The story continues with an analysis of the impact of the Populist and Progressive movements and then looks at the prosperity decade of the 1920s and the economic disaster of the Great Depression. Campbell's last chapters show how World War II brought economic recovery and touched off spectacular growth that, with only a few downturns, continues until today. Lucid, engaging, deftly written, Gone to Texas offers a fresh understanding of why Texas continues to be seen as a state unlike any other, a place that distills the essence of what it means to be an American.
Author : Christopher Chippindale,Paul S. C. Taçon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Art
ISBN : 0521576199
Pictures, painted and carved in caves and on open rock surfaces, are amongst our loveliest relics from prehistory. This pioneering set of sparkling essays goes beyond guesses as to what the pictures mean, instead exploring how we can reliably learn from rock-art as a material record of distant times: in short, rock-art as archaeology. Sometimes contact-period records offer some direct insight about indigenous meaning, so we can learn in that informed way. More often, we have no direct record, and instead have to use formal methods to learn from the evidence of the pictures themselves. The book's eighteen papers range wide in space and time, from the Palaeolithic of Europe to nineteenth-century Australia. Using varied approaches within the consistent framework of informed and proven methods, they make key advances in using the striking and reticent evidence of rock-art to archaeological benefit.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : McGraw-Hill/Glencoe
Page : 728 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1993
Category : History
ISBN : 0028004590
Texas and Texans is the story of Texas as it developed over periods of time. It also explores eight major themes. These themes help you link the elements that people and issues and events share. Just as importantly, the historical themes are a reminder that you are the part of the flow of history.
Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603446495
Paleoindians first arrived in Texas more than eleven thousand years ago, although relatively few sites of such early peoples have been discovered. Texas has a substantial post-Paleoindian record, however, and there are more than fifty thousand prehistoric archaeological sites identified across the state. This comprehensive volume explores in detail the varied experience of native peoples who lived on this land in prehistoric times. Chapters on each of the regions offer cutting-edge research, the culmination of years of work by dozens of the most knowledgeable experts. Based on the archaeological record, the discussion of the earliest inhabitants includes a reclassification of all known Paleoindian projectile point types and establishes a chronology for the various occupations. The archaeological data from across the state of Texas also allow authors to trace 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. The studies bring the prehistory of Texas Indians all the way up through the Late Prehistoric period (ca. a.d. 700–1600). The extensively illustrated chapters are broadly cultural-historical in nature but stay strongly focused on important current research problems. Taken together, they present careful and exhaustive considerations of the full archaeological (and paleoenvironmental) record of Texas.
Author : Ellen Sue Turner,Thomas R. Hester,Richard L. McReynolds
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781589794658
Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes charts, geographic distribution maps and reliable age-dating information. The authors also demonstrate how factors such as environment, locale and type of artifact combine to produce a portrait of theses ancient cultures.
