The Prehistory Of Texas

Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 1067 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-09-24
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603446495

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The Prehistory of Texas by Timothy K. Perttula Pdf

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 : Thomas R. Hester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN : WISC:89060391448

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Digging Into South Texas Prehistory by Thomas R. Hester Pdf

Author : T. R. Fehrenbach
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 949 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2014-04-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781497609709

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Lone Star by T. R. Fehrenbach Pdf

The definitive account of the incomparable Lone Star state by the author of Fire & Blood: A History of Mexico. T. R. Fehrenbach is a native Texan, military historian and the author of several important books about the region, but none as significant as this work, arguably the best single volume about Texas ever published. His account of America's most turbulent state offers a view that only an insider could capture. From the native tribes who lived there to the Spanish and French soldiers who wrested the territory for themselves, then to the dramatic ascension of the republic of Texas and the saga of the Civil War years. Fehrenbach describes the changes that disturbed the state as it forged its unique character. Most compelling is the one quality that would remain forever unchanged through centuries of upheaval: the courage of the men and women who struggled to realize their dreams in The Lone Star State.

Author : Stephen Harrigan
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 944 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780292759510

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Big Wonderful Thing by Stephen Harrigan Pdf

The story of Texas is the story of struggle and triumph in a land of extremes. It is a story of drought and flood, invasion and war, boom and bust, and of the myriad peoples who, over centuries of conflict, gave rise to a place that has helped shape the identity of the United States and the destiny of the world. “I couldn’t believe Texas was real,” the painter Georgia O’Keeffe remembered of her first encounter with the Lone Star State. It was, for her, “the same big wonderful thing that oceans and the highest mountains are.” Big Wonderful Thing invites us to walk in the footsteps of ancient as well as modern people along the path of Texas’s evolution. Blending action and atmosphere with impeccable research, New York Times best-selling author Stephen Harrigan brings to life with novelistic immediacy the generations of driven men and women who shaped Texas, including Spanish explorers, American filibusters, Comanche warriors, wildcatters, Tejano activists, and spellbinding artists—all of them taking their part in the creation of a place that became not just a nation, not just a state, but an indelible idea. Written in fast-paced prose, rich with personal observation and a passionate sense of place, Big Wonderful Thing calls to mind the literary spirit of Robert Hughes writing about Australia or Shelby Foote about the Civil War. Like those volumes it is a big book about a big subject, a book that dares to tell the whole glorious, gruesome, epically sprawling story of Texas.

Author : Harry J. Shafer
Publisher : Trinity University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 1595340866

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Painters in Prehistory by Harry J. Shafer Pdf

The story of ancient canyon dwellers along the Lower Pecos and their culture

Author : Randolph B. Campbell
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 479 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : HISTORY
ISBN : 0190642394

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Gone to Texas by Randolph B. Campbell Pdf

Gone to Texas: A History of the Lone Star State engagingly tells the story of the Lone Star State, from the arrival of humans in the Panhandle more than 10,000 years ago to the opening of the twenty-first century. Focusing on the state's successive waves of immigrants, the book offers an inclusive view of the vast array of Texans who, often in conflict with each other and always in a struggle with the land, created a history and an idea of Texas. An Instructor's Resource Manual and a set of approximately 400 PowerPoint slides to accompany Gone to Texas, Third Edition, are now available to adopters. Please contact your local Oxford University Press representative for details.

Author : Dan M. Worrall
Publisher : Concertina Press (www.concertinapressbooks.com)
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780982599631

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A Prehistory of Houston and Southeast Texas by Dan M. Worrall Pdf

Houston and Southeast Texas have an ancient, storied prehistory. Using data from hundreds of archeological site reports, a changing coastal landscape modeled through time in 3D, historical information on Native Americans taken from the accounts of the earliest European visitors, and digital GIS mapping to weave it all together, this book recounts the development of the physical landscape of this region and the cultures of its Native American inhabitants from the peak of the last ice age until the Spanish colonial era. Its 504 pages are illustrated with nearly 350 full color maps, charts, drawings and photographs.

Author : C. Britt Bousman,Bradley J. Vierra
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2012-09-25
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603447607

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From the Pleistocene to the Holocene by C. Britt Bousman,Bradley J. Vierra Pdf

The end of the Pleistocene era brought dramatic environmental changes to small bands of humans living in North America: changes that affected subsistence, mobility, demography, technology, and social relations. The transition they made from Paleoindian (Pleistocene) to Archaic (Early Holocene) societies represents the first major cultural shift that took place solely in the Americas. This event—which manifested in ways and at times much more varied than often supposed—set the stage for the unique developments of behavioral complexity that distinguish later Native American prehistoric societies. Using localized studies and broad regional syntheses, the contributors to this volume demonstrate the diversity of adaptations to the dynamic and changing environmental and cultural landscapes that occurred between the Pleistocene and early portion of the Holocene. The authors' research areas range from Northern Mexico to Alaska and across the continent to the American Northeast, synthesizing the copious available evidence from well-known and recent excavations.With its methodologically and geographically diverse approach, From the Pleistocene to the Holocene: Human Organization and Cultural Transformations in Prehistoric North America provides an overview of the present state of knowledge regarding this crucial transformative period in Native North America. It offers a large-scale synthesis of human adaptation, reflects the range of ideas and concepts in current archaeological theoretical approaches, and acts as a springboard for future explanations and models of prehistoric change.

Author : Thomas R. Hester
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Excavations (Archaeology)
ISBN : 0931722047

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Digging Into South Texas Prehistory by Thomas R. Hester Pdf

Author : Loyd Uglow
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781574418767

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A Military History of Texas by Loyd Uglow Pdf

In its essence, Texas history is military history. Comprehensive in scope, A Military History of Texas provides the first single-volume military history of Texas from pre-Columbian clashes between Native American tribes to the establishment of the United States Space Force as the newest branch of the nation’s military in the twenty-first century. Rather than creating new theories of what happened, author Loyd Uglow synthesizes competing views of Texas’s military past into a narrative that deals evenhandedly with different interpretations, and recognizes that there is a measure of truth in each one, even while emphasizing those that seem most plausible. Uglow ties the various engrossing aspects of Texas military history into one unified experience. Chapters cover topics of warfare in Texas before the Europeans; Spanish military activities; revolutions against Spain and then Mexico; Texas and Texans in the Mexican War; ante- and post-bellum warfare on the Texas frontier; the Civil War in Texas; the Texas Rangers; border warfare during the Mexican revolution of 1910-1920; Texas and the world wars; and the modern military in Texas. Brief explanations of military terminology and practice, as well as parallels between Texas military actions and ones in other times and places, connect the narrative to the broader context of world military history. Thoroughly documented, with an engaging narrative and perceptive analysis, A Military History of Texas is designed to be accessible and interesting to a broad range of readers. It will find a welcome place in the collections of amateur or professional military historians, devoted fans of all things Texan, and newcomers to military history.

Author : Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : UOM:39015011606608

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Ancient Texans by Harry J. Shafer,Georg Zappler Pdf

This book is about, Indians of North America, Rock painting - Texas, Petroglyphs - Texas, Antiquities, Pecos River Valley.

Author : Nancy Adele Kenmotsu,Douglas K. Boyd
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2012-10-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781603446907

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The Toyah Phase of Central Texas by Nancy Adele Kenmotsu,Douglas K. Boyd Pdf

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 newcomers 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.

Author : William Wilmon Newcomb
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN : OCLC:475731486

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The Indians of Texas by William Wilmon Newcomb Pdf

A comprehensive guide to the Indians of Texas since the beginning of recorded history.

Author : Martín Salinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017246123

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Indians of the Rio Grande Delta by Martín Salinas Pdf

Certain to become a standard reference in its field, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples. Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Depending on available information, he reconstructs something of their history, geographical range and migrations, demography, language, and culture. He also offers general information on various unnamed groups of Indians, on the lifeways of the indigenous peoples, and on the relations between the Indian groups and the colonial Spanish missions in the region.

Author : Don H. Biggers
Publisher : Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1983-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 089015385X

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German Pioneers in Texas by Don H. Biggers Pdf

German Pioneers of Texas was first published shortly after the 75th anniversary of the founding of Fredericksburg, Texas. In addition to relating memoirs of the early settlers, the book also gives an insight into the history of the community as it was viewed by one who recorded it in what is now almost the midpoint of its history. As such, it is, in effect, a bridge between yesterday and today. The first printing was in 1925 and then reprinted in 1983. The third reprinting was on the occasion of Fredericksburg's 150th anniversary, in 1996. Many stories have been written and books published about the German settlement of Fredericksburg. They all provide this pioneer German settlement with excellent documentation of events in its founding, its colonization, its hardships, as well as its days of glory that have come in abundance.