Russell K Skowronek
Biographic Data
| ID | 100787 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Russell K Skowronek |
| GIVEN NAMES | Russell K |
| FAMILY NAME | Skowronek |
| SIGNATURE | SKOWRONEK R K |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
From a Tabula Rasa to the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation
Prior to 2009, South Texas was essentially an archaeological tabula rasa, largely unknown in the academic, public, or grey literature due to its location far from research universities, the state historic preservation office, and cultural resource management firms. Here, we relate how a consortium of anthropologists and archaeologists, biologists, historians, geologists, and geoarchaeologists have embraced a locally focused, place-based STEAM res…
Making the Exotic Mundane: The Manila Galleon, the Flota, and Globalization
Archival Research and Historical Archaeology
South, Stanley A.
Deagan, Kathleen A.
Lithic Raw Materials in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, South Texas and Northeast Mexico
Analysis of 976 lithic artifacts from twelve museum and private collections in the Lower Rio Grande Valley revealed a preference for seven rock types. Sixty nine percent of all tools were made from gravel chert, which is locally the most abundant rock type on the Frio and Goliad Formations, as well as on the gravels of the Rio Grande. Representing less than 10% each were, the local El Sauz Chert, a black banded metamorphic rock, volcanic rocks, a…
Memorial: George Robert Fischer (1937–2016)
Cinnamon, Ceramics, and Silks: Tracking the Manila Galleon Trade in the Creation of the World Economy
Chocolate on the Borderlands of New Spain
Characteristics and Genesis of El Sauz Chert, an Important Prehistoric Lithic Resource in South Texas
Stone tools ranging in age from Early Archaic (3500–6000 B.C.) to Late Prehistoric (A.D. 700 to historic times), made of a distinctive light gray but sometimes colorful chert, have been identified in private collections in south Texas for at least 50 years. The source of this stone, known in the archeological literature as “El Sauz chert,” are two small bedrock outcrops in Starr County associated with altered rhyolitic ash of the Catahoula Format…
Beneath the Ivory Tower
Beneath the ivory tower: The Archaeology of Academia
Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront, James P. Delgado
On the Fringes of New Spain: The Northern Borderlands and the Pacific
Locally-made or Imported? Identifying Ceramic Composition Variation in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
Global economics in the creation and maintenance of the Spanish colonial empire
For decades anthropologists, economists, and historians have debated whether Wallerstein's proposed European-centered world economy is an adequate model for explaining the rise of capitalism and the creation of “core” consuming and “peripheral” producing geographical areas in the early modern era. To go beyond generalizations, researchers must turn to specific examples from a broad array of cultural, social, and geographical situations to evaluat…
The Spanish Philippines: Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial Economics and Society
Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California
The social and natural environments of Alta California were radically transformed during the era of Franciscan missionization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the past century and a half scholars have variably romanticized and reviled this institution. In order to begin reconciling aspects of these two opposing views this study uses an interdisciplinary approach to consider some of these changes in the Ohlone/Costanoan …
End of the Empire: The Spanish Philippines and Puerto Rico in the Nineteenth Century
As we pass the Quincentennial of the founding of the Spanish empire we stand within two years of marking the centennial of its demise in Asia and the New World in 1998. In recent years, much research has focused on the changes wrought on indigenous populations at the time of initial contact, but little consideration has been given to the material legacy of this empire. This study will examine the material aspects of two Spanish colonies, the Phil…
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expeditions of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
European ceramics and the elusive “Cittie of Raleigh”
Empire and ceramics: The changing role of illicit trade in Spanish America
The Nondestructive Identification of Worn Coins from the Marquette Mission Site, St. Ignace, Michigan
During the past 20 years a growing number of archaeologists have focused their investigations on contact and early historic-era sites in the New World. Frequently the most difficult aspect of these studies is the accurate identification of a site's age, function, and cultural affiliation from recovered material remains. Concurrent with this research has been an increasing concern for the conservation and preservation of the fragile objects recove…
Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California
The social and natural environments of Alta California were radically transformed during the era of Franciscan missionization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the past century and a half scholars have variably romanticized and reviled this institution. In order to begin reconciling aspects of these two opposing views this study uses an interdisciplinary approach to consider some of these changes in the Ohlone/Costanoan …
The Spanish Philippines: Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial Economics and Society
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expeditions of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
Empire and ceramics: The changing role of illicit trade in Spanish America
Ceramics and Commerce: The 1554 flota revisited
Characteristics and Genesis of El Sauz Chert, an Important Prehistoric Lithic Resource in South Texas
Stone tools ranging in age from Early Archaic (3500–6000 B.C.) to Late Prehistoric (A.D. 700 to historic times), made of a distinctive light gray but sometimes colorful chert, have been identified in private collections in south Texas for at least 50 years. The source of this stone, known in the archeological literature as “El Sauz chert,” are two small bedrock outcrops in Starr County associated with altered rhyolitic ash of the Catahoula Format…
From a Tabula Rasa to the Governor’s Award for Historic Preservation
Prior to 2009, South Texas was essentially an archaeological tabula rasa, largely unknown in the academic, public, or grey literature due to its location far from research universities, the state historic preservation office, and cultural resource management firms. Here, we relate how a consortium of anthropologists and archaeologists, biologists, historians, geologists, and geoarchaeologists have embraced a locally focused, place-based STEAM res…
Locally-made or Imported? Identifying Ceramic Composition Variation in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction
End of the Empire: The Spanish Philippines and Puerto Rico in the Nineteenth Century
As we pass the Quincentennial of the founding of the Spanish empire we stand within two years of marking the centennial of its demise in Asia and the New World in 1998. In recent years, much research has focused on the changes wrought on indigenous populations at the time of initial contact, but little consideration has been given to the material legacy of this empire. This study will examine the material aspects of two Spanish colonies, the Phil…
European ceramics and the elusive “Cittie of Raleigh”
The Legare Anchorage shipwreck site-Grave of HMS Fowey , Biscayne National Park, Florida
Ceramics and Commerce: The 1554 flota revisited
The Nondestructive Identification of Worn Coins from the Marquette Mission Site, St. Ignace, Michigan
During the past 20 years a growing number of archaeologists have focused their investigations on contact and early historic-era sites in the New World. Frequently the most difficult aspect of these studies is the accurate identification of a site's age, function, and cultural affiliation from recovered material remains. Concurrent with this research has been an increasing concern for the conservation and preservation of the fragile objects recove…
Empire and ceramics: The changing role of illicit trade in Spanish America
European ceramics and the elusive “Cittie of Raleigh”
The De Soto Chronicles: The Expeditions of Hernando de Soto to North America in 1539-1543
End of the Empire: The Spanish Philippines and Puerto Rico in the Nineteenth Century
As we pass the Quincentennial of the founding of the Spanish empire we stand within two years of marking the centennial of its demise in Asia and the New World in 1998. In recent years, much research has focused on the changes wrought on indigenous populations at the time of initial contact, but little consideration has been given to the material legacy of this empire. This study will examine the material aspects of two Spanish colonies, the Phil…
The Spanish Philippines: Archaeological Perspectives on Colonial Economics and Society
Sifting the Evidence: Perceptions of Life at the Ohlone (Costanoan) Missions of Alta California
The social and natural environments of Alta California were radically transformed during the era of Franciscan missionization in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Over the past century and a half scholars have variably romanticized and reviled this institution. In order to begin reconciling aspects of these two opposing views this study uses an interdisciplinary approach to consider some of these changes in the Ohlone/Costanoan …
Global economics in the creation and maintenance of the Spanish colonial empire
For decades anthropologists, economists, and historians have debated whether Wallerstein's proposed European-centered world economy is an adequate model for explaining the rise of capitalism and the creation of “core” consuming and “peripheral” producing geographical areas in the early modern era. To go beyond generalizations, researchers must turn to specific examples from a broad array of cultural, social, and geographical situations to evaluat…
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
On the Fringes of New Spain: The Northern Borderlands and the Pacific
Locally-made or Imported? Identifying Ceramic Composition Variation in the San Francisco Presidio Jurisdiction
Beneath the Ivory Tower
Beneath the ivory tower: The Archaeology of Academia
Gold Rush Port: The Maritime Archaeology of San Francisco's Waterfront, James P. Delgado
Characteristics and Genesis of El Sauz Chert, an Important Prehistoric Lithic Resource in South Texas
Stone tools ranging in age from Early Archaic (3500–6000 B.C.) to Late Prehistoric (A.D. 700 to historic times), made of a distinctive light gray but sometimes colorful chert, have been identified in private collections in south Texas for at least 50 years. The source of this stone, known in the archeological literature as “El Sauz chert,” are two small bedrock outcrops in Starr County associated with altered rhyolitic ash of the Catahoula Format…
Cinnamon, Ceramics, and Silks: Tracking the Manila Galleon Trade in the Creation of the World Economy
Chocolate on the Borderlands of New Spain
Memorial: George Robert Fischer (1937–2016)
Archival Research and Historical Archaeology
South, Stanley A.
Deagan, Kathleen A.
Lithic Raw Materials in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, South Texas and Northeast Mexico
Analysis of 976 lithic artifacts from twelve museum and private collections in the Lower Rio Grande Valley revealed a preference for seven rock types. Sixty nine percent of all tools were made from gravel chert, which is locally the most abundant rock type on the Frio and Goliad Formations, as well as on the gravels of the Rio Grande. Representing less than 10% each were, the local El Sauz Chert, a black banded metamorphic rock, volcanic rocks, a…
History (21 works) · Archaeology (17 works) · History (15 works) · Geography (13 works) · Ancient history (8 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Art (6 works) · Empire (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (5 works)