Solveig A Turpin
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 324491 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Solveig A Turpin |
| PRENOMES | Solveig A |
| SOBRENOME | Turpin |
| ASSINATURA | TURPIN S A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 36 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 69 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 36 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1976 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2012 |
| ÍNDICE H | 4 |
The Temporal Range of Bundled Burials in the Lower Pecos Region of Southwest Texas
Eleven new radiocarbon assays generally support the consensus that bundled burial in dry rockshelter deposits was a Late Archaic mortuary practice in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas while also indicating that bundling may actually have begun in the Middle Archaic period, ca. 1000 years earlier than expected. Essentially, bundling consists of wrapping the flexed body of the deceased in a series of mats that are successively more coarsely wov…
Sex and the Salt Road
In the pictograph assemblage in the Black Mountains of west Texas, one image is a naked man who appears to be copulating with a crack in the bedrock. This pictograph, one at Hueco Tanks, and a similar petroglyph at Alamo Canyon may record an increase rite associated with the acquisition of salt. Anovice taking part in the 1912 Hopi expedition to the Grand Canyon for salt described simulated intercourse with a landmark boulder that was said to be …
Location, Location, Location
In the last 10 years, excavations at the Lewis Canyon site have exposed hundreds of petroglyphs buried beneath a mantle of modern sediment that has been redeposited from the surrounding hills. The new glyphs are radically different from the assemblage recorded in the 193Os, which were predominantly abstract geometric designs augmented by a few realistic animal tracks, projectile points, and human figures. The emergent style is dominated by nested…
Nondestructive Radiocarbon Dating
Plasma oxidation was used to obtain radiocarbon dates on six different materials from a naturally mummified baby bundle from the Lower Pecos River region of southwest Texas. This bundle was selected because it was thought to represent a single event and would illustrate the accuracy and precision of the plasma oxidation method. Five of the materials were clearly components of the original bundle with 13 dates combined to yield a weighted average …
More Mobiliary Art from Northern Mexico
In 1996, the first evidence of a mobiliary art tradition in northern Mexico was found at Boca de Potrerillos, Nuevo Leon, and reported in Plains Anthropologist. Now, the unsystematic collection of 103 incised stones from Pelillal, Coahuila confirms that at least two technically and iconographically distinct types of mobiliary art were produced by the prehistoric hunters and gatherers of north central Mexico. The simpler stones bear incised linear…
Continuities in Architectural Traditions
The recent discovery of a pit house village, 40 km northwest of Monterrey, challenges the conventional view of inland northeastern Mexico as the domain of purely nomadic hunters and gatherers throughout prehistory. Las Casitas consists of fifty-three subterranean rooms and forty-eight smaller depressions aligned in three slightly arcuate tiers in a small valley adjacent to Boca de Potrerillos, an extremely large open campsite and petroglyph compl…
Stuck in the Muck
The remains of at least ten bison-three adult fomales, five juveniles, and two calves-were shallowly buriedinlacustrine clays at the base of a large truncated dune encircling the northern perimeter of Big Lake, the largest saline lake in Texas. Radiocarbon assay of sediments and bone apatite, and the heavily ground base of a straight-sided Late Paleoindian dart point, date the kill to approximately 8000 radiocarbon years ago. The verticalstance o…
Marking Time
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The Tenth Scapula
A previously unreported painted deer scapula from Cueva Pilote, a dry rock shelter in the Sierra de la Encantada of northern Coahuila, helps to establish the provenience of a similar specimen that had been attributed to the Amistad Reservoir district. The design similarities suggest that the two specimens formed a matched pair, part of a larger set. The Pilote assemblage would then consist often scapulae: seven painted, two unpainted, and one bur…
Painting on Bones and Other Unusual Media in the Lower and Trans-Pecos Region of Texas and Coahuila
Poorly provenienced painted deer scapulae from three or four rock shelters in the mountainous region south and north of the Big Bend of the Rio Grande bear a strong resemblance to ethnographically documented musical instruments. Ethnohistoric and modern analogs suggest that these specimens combine four sacred qualities--bone, deer, paint, and music. Shamans who experience symbolic death during their trance states are reborn from their bones, the …
The Mobiliary Art Of Boca De Potrerillos Nuevo LeÓN, Mexico
Two types of incised tabular sandstone rocks were recovered from two spatially and temporally distinct areas within the large petroglyph/open camp site of Boca de Potrerillos in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Seventeen stones from Coconos, a subarea ofthe site that probably dates to about 5000 BP, are engraved with broad, deep linear and curvilinear designs made by pecking and smoothing of grooves. A recurring motif is an apparent …
The Archaic Environment of Boca De Potrerillos, Nuevo León, Mexico
Nine new radiocarbon dates expand the occupational sequence at Boca de Potrerillos, a large open camp site on the fringes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo León, Mexico, to the range between 270 and 7700 years ago. Incised stones attributable to the Archaic component provide an estimate of the age of some of the 3000 petroglyphs at this site. Cut-and-fill cycles, pollen counts, and gastropod analyses contribute to the definition of two climat…
From Marshland to Desert
Despite the paucity of archaeological research in the Sierra Madre Oriental ecotone of northeastern Mexico, a patterned distribution of large open campsites replete with petroglyphs is suggested by a recent rock art survey sponsored by the Mexican government. Pilot research at Boca de Potrerillos, one of the largest and best preserved examples of this site type, demonstrates that the intermontane desert of today was once a combination of grasslan…
Hunting Camps and Hunting Magic
Seven open bedrock petroglyph sites on the western Edwards Plateau share similarities that suggest that these locations were temporary hunting camps, used during the rainy season by people whose ranges centered around the major rivers that flow north, south, east, and west of the Eldorado Divide. All are remote from permanent water, but all contain natural bedrock cavities capable of holding casual water for at least a month in the cooler seasons…
More Sacred Holes in the Ritual Landscape of the Lower Pecos River Region
(1992). More Sacred Holes in the Ritual Landscape of the Lower Pecos River Region. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 37, No. 140, pp. 275-278
Skyline Shelter and Devils Triangular Dart Points
Recent excavations at Skyline Shelter, a dry rock shelter on the Devils River above Lake Amistad, dlsclosed an early Archalc component most notable for a previously undefined triangular dart point style, here named Devlls Tnangular. The distribution of six of these points and triangular prefonns around a small ash and charcoal pit, dated to 5900-6000 years ago, suggests that they are discards from tool kit rejuvenation: Technolof?cally, these spe…
More about Mortuary Practices in the Lower Pecos River Region of Southwest Texas
The use of small, inaccessible solution cavities and horizontal shaft caves as mortuary sites, a variation on the better-known practice of bundled burial in dry rock shelter deposits, is eminently practical in the rugged karst topography of the Lower Pecos River region. In the smaller sites, however, complete burial was not feasible and it appears that bundled bodies were placed in these caves or shafts with only a covering of rocks to deter scav…
Legacy on Stone
Rock Art and Hunter-gatherer Archaeology
The pictographic sequence in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas illustrates the contribution that rock art can make to the reconstruction of prehistoric cultural systems. The indigenous development and later introduction of mature art forms contrast markedly with the current static model of hunting and gathering adaptation to this now-arid region. Four prehistoric rock art styles and the historical pictographs are described in chronological or…
New Perspectives on the Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos River Region, Texas
The Red Linear style is one of four prehistoric pictograph styles defined in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas. Since the characteristics of the style were summarized in 1984, three new examples have been recorded on the Devils River, bringing the total inventory to 11. Two of these sites contain scenes showing the stages in human reproduction, from copulation through birth. Their juxtaposition with scenes of conflict may be a reflection of t…
The End Of The Trail
The Hussie Miers site, 41W327, is the southernmost example of Plains Early Biographic style rock arl yet recorded in Texas. Five episodes in a Plains warrior’s combat autobiography show a protagonist sequentially defeating two Indian opponents and three bluecoats. The soldiers’ Prussian-style helmets suggest this pictograph was painted after 1871. Events from the massacre at Howard’s Well or the battle of South Kickapoo Springs may be depicted. A…
More Or Less Bison
Archaeological Investigations in Seminole Sink
(1988). Archaeological Investigations in Seminole Sink. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 33, No. 122, pp. 19-36
The Site and its Setting
Arroyo De Los Indios
Arroyo de los Indios, a historic pictograph in nmthem Coahuila, is described and compared to the known sample of post-contact rock art found around the mouth of the Pecos River on the left bank of the Rio Grande. Horses and shield-bearing warriors dominate the iconography at this site. In location and theme, Arroyo de los Indios is similar to other pictographs of this era. Its individualistic style exemplifies the diversity of post-contact art in…
Late archaic Mortuary practices Of the Lower pecos River region, Southwest texas
The most common mortuary practice documented in southwest Texas is flexed primary burials where the corpse is wrapped in mats and interred in pits dug in dry rockshelter deposits. Natural dessication occasionally results in partial mummification and the preservation of some body parts. One example, exhumed in the 1930s, is the mummy of a relatively tall, gracile adult male with the extreme dental pathologies characteristic of the region. Identifi…
The Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos River Region, Texas
Red Linear rock art is one of three prehistoric styles defined in the Lower Pecos River Region of southwest Texas. This miniature, monochrome style, characterized by diminutive stick figures engaged in coherent group activities, has been identified at eight sites. Intangible aspects of culture reflected in the pictographs include ranking in social status, ritual and economic practices, warfare and hunting strategies, sex-specific division of soci…
Rock Art and Hunter-gatherer Archaeology
The pictographic sequence in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas illustrates the contribution that rock art can make to the reconstruction of prehistoric cultural systems. The indigenous development and later introduction of mature art forms contrast markedly with the current static model of hunting and gathering adaptation to this now-arid region. Four prehistoric rock art styles and the historical pictographs are described in chronological or…
Toward a Definition of a Pictograph Style
linear designs found at 14 sites surrrounding the confluence of the Pecos River and Rio Grande form the basis for the definition of a new pictograph style, the Lower Pecos Bold Line Geometric. Based on superimposition and relative preservation, the geometries are relatively late in the long sequence of pictography in this region, following the fluorescence of the classic Pecos River style. Although some of the most elaborate designs are painted a…
Nondestructive Radiocarbon Dating
Plasma oxidation was used to obtain radiocarbon dates on six different materials from a naturally mummified baby bundle from the Lower Pecos River region of southwest Texas. This bundle was selected because it was thought to represent a single event and would illustrate the accuracy and precision of the plasma oxidation method. Five of the materials were clearly components of the original bundle with 13 dates combined to yield a weighted average …
New Perspectives on the Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos River Region, Texas
The Red Linear style is one of four prehistoric pictograph styles defined in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas. Since the characteristics of the style were summarized in 1984, three new examples have been recorded on the Devils River, bringing the total inventory to 11. Two of these sites contain scenes showing the stages in human reproduction, from copulation through birth. Their juxtaposition with scenes of conflict may be a reflection of t…
The Mobiliary Art Of Boca De Potrerillos Nuevo LeÓN, Mexico
Two types of incised tabular sandstone rocks were recovered from two spatially and temporally distinct areas within the large petroglyph/open camp site of Boca de Potrerillos in the northeastern Mexican state of Nuevo Leon. Seventeen stones from Coconos, a subarea ofthe site that probably dates to about 5000 BP, are engraved with broad, deep linear and curvilinear designs made by pecking and smoothing of grooves. A recurring motif is an apparent …
Location, Location, Location
In the last 10 years, excavations at the Lewis Canyon site have exposed hundreds of petroglyphs buried beneath a mantle of modern sediment that has been redeposited from the surrounding hills. The new glyphs are radically different from the assemblage recorded in the 193Os, which were predominantly abstract geometric designs augmented by a few realistic animal tracks, projectile points, and human figures. The emergent style is dominated by nested…
More Mobiliary Art from Northern Mexico
In 1996, the first evidence of a mobiliary art tradition in northern Mexico was found at Boca de Potrerillos, Nuevo Leon, and reported in Plains Anthropologist. Now, the unsystematic collection of 103 incised stones from Pelillal, Coahuila confirms that at least two technically and iconographically distinct types of mobiliary art were produced by the prehistoric hunters and gatherers of north central Mexico. The simpler stones bear incised linear…
Painting on Bones and Other Unusual Media in the Lower and Trans-Pecos Region of Texas and Coahuila
Poorly provenienced painted deer scapulae from three or four rock shelters in the mountainous region south and north of the Big Bend of the Rio Grande bear a strong resemblance to ethnographically documented musical instruments. Ethnohistoric and modern analogs suggest that these specimens combine four sacred qualities--bone, deer, paint, and music. Shamans who experience symbolic death during their trance states are reborn from their bones, the …
From Marshland to Desert
Despite the paucity of archaeological research in the Sierra Madre Oriental ecotone of northeastern Mexico, a patterned distribution of large open campsites replete with petroglyphs is suggested by a recent rock art survey sponsored by the Mexican government. Pilot research at Boca de Potrerillos, one of the largest and best preserved examples of this site type, demonstrates that the intermontane desert of today was once a combination of grasslan…
More Sacred Holes in the Ritual Landscape of the Lower Pecos River Region
(1992). More Sacred Holes in the Ritual Landscape of the Lower Pecos River Region. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 37, No. 140, pp. 275-278
The End Of The Trail
The Hussie Miers site, 41W327, is the southernmost example of Plains Early Biographic style rock arl yet recorded in Texas. Five episodes in a Plains warrior’s combat autobiography show a protagonist sequentially defeating two Indian opponents and three bluecoats. The soldiers’ Prussian-style helmets suggest this pictograph was painted after 1871. Events from the massacre at Howard’s Well or the battle of South Kickapoo Springs may be depicted. A…
Ethnohistoric Observations of Bison in the Lower Pecos River Region
The near-desert climate of southwest Texas is considered the end result of a continual trend toward aridity, begun at the end of the Pleistocene and broken only by one mesic interlude ca. 2600 years ago. Ethnohistoric references to bison and bison hunting in and adjacent to this region suggest a second period of climatic clemency beginning minimally by 1582 and lasting until the mid-nineteenth century. The Lower Pecos was thus marginally included…
An Automated Computer Technique for Vessel Form Analysis
A computerized method for machine assisted ceramic measurement from two-dimensional reproductions is given and its applicability in canonical correlation analysis is tested
A Statistical Examination Of Caddoan Vessel Design And Shape From The Ben Mckinney Site, Marion County, Texas
The statistical analysis reported here was done to set mathematical criteria for typologies of Caddoan ceramics. A fifty-vessel sample was analyzed through contingency table analysis, factor analysis, and canonical analysis to isolate design variables that would be statistically valid for assigning vessels to established types and to delineate statistically significant relationships between design attributes and vessel shape. Further work on this…
The Temporal Range of Bundled Burials in the Lower Pecos Region of Southwest Texas
Eleven new radiocarbon assays generally support the consensus that bundled burial in dry rockshelter deposits was a Late Archaic mortuary practice in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas while also indicating that bundling may actually have begun in the Middle Archaic period, ca. 1000 years earlier than expected. Essentially, bundling consists of wrapping the flexed body of the deceased in a series of mats that are successively more coarsely wov…
Stuck in the Muck
The remains of at least ten bison-three adult fomales, five juveniles, and two calves-were shallowly buriedinlacustrine clays at the base of a large truncated dune encircling the northern perimeter of Big Lake, the largest saline lake in Texas. Radiocarbon assay of sediments and bone apatite, and the heavily ground base of a straight-sided Late Paleoindian dart point, date the kill to approximately 8000 radiocarbon years ago. The verticalstance o…
The Archaic Environment of Boca De Potrerillos, Nuevo León, Mexico
Nine new radiocarbon dates expand the occupational sequence at Boca de Potrerillos, a large open camp site on the fringes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo León, Mexico, to the range between 270 and 7700 years ago. Incised stones attributable to the Archaic component provide an estimate of the age of some of the 3000 petroglyphs at this site. Cut-and-fill cycles, pollen counts, and gastropod analyses contribute to the definition of two climat…
Hunting Camps and Hunting Magic
Seven open bedrock petroglyph sites on the western Edwards Plateau share similarities that suggest that these locations were temporary hunting camps, used during the rainy season by people whose ranges centered around the major rivers that flow north, south, east, and west of the Eldorado Divide. All are remote from permanent water, but all contain natural bedrock cavities capable of holding casual water for at least a month in the cooler seasons…
Skyline Shelter and Devils Triangular Dart Points
Recent excavations at Skyline Shelter, a dry rock shelter on the Devils River above Lake Amistad, dlsclosed an early Archalc component most notable for a previously undefined triangular dart point style, here named Devlls Tnangular. The distribution of six of these points and triangular prefonns around a small ash and charcoal pit, dated to 5900-6000 years ago, suggests that they are discards from tool kit rejuvenation: Technolof?cally, these spe…
More about Mortuary Practices in the Lower Pecos River Region of Southwest Texas
The use of small, inaccessible solution cavities and horizontal shaft caves as mortuary sites, a variation on the better-known practice of bundled burial in dry rock shelter deposits, is eminently practical in the rugged karst topography of the Lower Pecos River region. In the smaller sites, however, complete burial was not feasible and it appears that bundled bodies were placed in these caves or shafts with only a covering of rocks to deter scav…
Legacy on Stone
Technological Continuity and Functional Change
Steeply beveled end scrapers are considered a temporal marker of the Late Prehistoric Period in Texas where they are generally associated with bison hunting populations. Microwear analysis of a sample of 35 scrapers collected from 14 sites in the Lower Pecos River Region demonstrates that the majority were used to process vegetation, an adaptation to the primary resource base in a near desert environment. A typological definition of the Dorso end…
Smoke Signals On Seminole Canyon
A series of small hearths which lie along the barren rim of Seminole Canyon, a deeply entrenched tributary of the Rio Grande near the mouth of the Pecos River, may be remnants of a rapid fire and smoke signaling system used in ritual or times of social stress. In the absence of datable artifacts, the features are estimated to be a product of late to proto-historic times, the period of greatest social mobility in the Lower Pecos River Region. If t…
A Statistical Examination Of Caddoan Vessel Design And Shape From The Ben Mckinney Site, Marion County, Texas
The statistical analysis reported here was done to set mathematical criteria for typologies of Caddoan ceramics. A fifty-vessel sample was analyzed through contingency table analysis, factor analysis, and canonical analysis to isolate design variables that would be statistically valid for assigning vessels to established types and to delineate statistically significant relationships between design attributes and vessel shape. Further work on this…
An Automated Computer Technique for Vessel Form Analysis
A computerized method for machine assisted ceramic measurement from two-dimensional reproductions is given and its applicability in canonical correlation analysis is tested
Stereophotogrammetric Documentation of Exposed Archaeological Features
Close-range terrestrial stereophotogrammetry, a technique for rapid, precise measurement and recording, is demonstrated by the documentation of two kinds of surface sites: pictographs and surface-exposed rock features. The production of planimetric, contour, and cross-section plots from stereophotographs is a time-and labor-efficient method of recording exposed archaeological features
The Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos River Region, Texas
Red Linear rock art is one of three prehistoric styles defined in the Lower Pecos River Region of southwest Texas. This miniature, monochrome style, characterized by diminutive stick figures engaged in coherent group activities, has been identified at eight sites. Intangible aspects of culture reflected in the pictographs include ranking in social status, ritual and economic practices, warfare and hunting strategies, sex-specific division of soci…
Smoke Signals On Seminole Canyon
A series of small hearths which lie along the barren rim of Seminole Canyon, a deeply entrenched tributary of the Rio Grande near the mouth of the Pecos River, may be remnants of a rapid fire and smoke signaling system used in ritual or times of social stress. In the absence of datable artifacts, the features are estimated to be a product of late to proto-historic times, the period of greatest social mobility in the Lower Pecos River Region. If t…
Pictograph Support For The Smoke Signal Hypothesis
(1985). Pictograph Support For The Smoke Signal Hypothesis. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 30, No. 108, pp. 165-166
Late archaic Mortuary practices Of the Lower pecos River region, Southwest texas
The most common mortuary practice documented in southwest Texas is flexed primary burials where the corpse is wrapped in mats and interred in pits dug in dry rockshelter deposits. Natural dessication occasionally results in partial mummification and the preservation of some body parts. One example, exhumed in the 1930s, is the mummy of a relatively tall, gracile adult male with the extreme dental pathologies characteristic of the region. Identifi…
Toward a Definition of a Pictograph Style
linear designs found at 14 sites surrrounding the confluence of the Pecos River and Rio Grande form the basis for the definition of a new pictograph style, the Lower Pecos Bold Line Geometric. Based on superimposition and relative preservation, the geometries are relatively late in the long sequence of pictography in this region, following the fluorescence of the classic Pecos River style. Although some of the most elaborate designs are painted a…
Response to Graham And Graham’s “Vision Quests
"Response to Graham And Graham’s “Vision Quests: an Alternative Hypothesis for Signal Fires Along Seminole Canyon, Val Verde County, Texas”." Plains Anthropologist, 31(111), pp. 77–78
Technological Continuity and Functional Change
Steeply beveled end scrapers are considered a temporal marker of the Late Prehistoric Period in Texas where they are generally associated with bison hunting populations. Microwear analysis of a sample of 35 scrapers collected from 14 sites in the Lower Pecos River Region demonstrates that the majority were used to process vegetation, an adaptation to the primary resource base in a near desert environment. A typological definition of the Dorso end…
Ethnohistoric Observations of Bison in the Lower Pecos River Region
The near-desert climate of southwest Texas is considered the end result of a continual trend toward aridity, begun at the end of the Pleistocene and broken only by one mesic interlude ca. 2600 years ago. Ethnohistoric references to bison and bison hunting in and adjacent to this region suggest a second period of climatic clemency beginning minimally by 1582 and lasting until the mid-nineteenth century. The Lower Pecos was thus marginally included…
More Or Less Bison
Archaeological Investigations in Seminole Sink
(1988). Archaeological Investigations in Seminole Sink. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 33, No. 122, pp. 19-36
The Site and its Setting
Arroyo De Los Indios
Arroyo de los Indios, a historic pictograph in nmthem Coahuila, is described and compared to the known sample of post-contact rock art found around the mouth of the Pecos River on the left bank of the Rio Grande. Horses and shield-bearing warriors dominate the iconography at this site. In location and theme, Arroyo de los Indios is similar to other pictographs of this era. Its individualistic style exemplifies the diversity of post-contact art in…
The End Of The Trail
The Hussie Miers site, 41W327, is the southernmost example of Plains Early Biographic style rock arl yet recorded in Texas. Five episodes in a Plains warrior’s combat autobiography show a protagonist sequentially defeating two Indian opponents and three bluecoats. The soldiers’ Prussian-style helmets suggest this pictograph was painted after 1871. Events from the massacre at Howard’s Well or the battle of South Kickapoo Springs may be depicted. A…
Rock Art and Hunter-gatherer Archaeology
The pictographic sequence in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas illustrates the contribution that rock art can make to the reconstruction of prehistoric cultural systems. The indigenous development and later introduction of mature art forms contrast markedly with the current static model of hunting and gathering adaptation to this now-arid region. Four prehistoric rock art styles and the historical pictographs are described in chronological or…
New Perspectives on the Red Linear Style Pictographs of the Lower Pecos River Region, Texas
The Red Linear style is one of four prehistoric pictograph styles defined in the Lower Pecos River region of Texas. Since the characteristics of the style were summarized in 1984, three new examples have been recorded on the Devils River, bringing the total inventory to 11. Two of these sites contain scenes showing the stages in human reproduction, from copulation through birth. Their juxtaposition with scenes of conflict may be a reflection of t…
More Sacred Holes in the Ritual Landscape of the Lower Pecos River Region
(1992). More Sacred Holes in the Ritual Landscape of the Lower Pecos River Region. Plains Anthropologist: Vol. 37, No. 140, pp. 275-278
Skyline Shelter and Devils Triangular Dart Points
Recent excavations at Skyline Shelter, a dry rock shelter on the Devils River above Lake Amistad, dlsclosed an early Archalc component most notable for a previously undefined triangular dart point style, here named Devlls Tnangular. The distribution of six of these points and triangular prefonns around a small ash and charcoal pit, dated to 5900-6000 years ago, suggests that they are discards from tool kit rejuvenation: Technolof?cally, these spe…
More about Mortuary Practices in the Lower Pecos River Region of Southwest Texas
The use of small, inaccessible solution cavities and horizontal shaft caves as mortuary sites, a variation on the better-known practice of bundled burial in dry rock shelter deposits, is eminently practical in the rugged karst topography of the Lower Pecos River region. In the smaller sites, however, complete burial was not feasible and it appears that bundled bodies were placed in these caves or shafts with only a covering of rocks to deter scav…
Legacy on Stone
Hunting Camps and Hunting Magic
Seven open bedrock petroglyph sites on the western Edwards Plateau share similarities that suggest that these locations were temporary hunting camps, used during the rainy season by people whose ranges centered around the major rivers that flow north, south, east, and west of the Eldorado Divide. All are remote from permanent water, but all contain natural bedrock cavities capable of holding casual water for at least a month in the cooler seasons…
From Marshland to Desert
Despite the paucity of archaeological research in the Sierra Madre Oriental ecotone of northeastern Mexico, a patterned distribution of large open campsites replete with petroglyphs is suggested by a recent rock art survey sponsored by the Mexican government. Pilot research at Boca de Potrerillos, one of the largest and best preserved examples of this site type, demonstrates that the intermontane desert of today was once a combination of grasslan…
The Archaic Environment of Boca De Potrerillos, Nuevo León, Mexico
Nine new radiocarbon dates expand the occupational sequence at Boca de Potrerillos, a large open camp site on the fringes of the Sierra Madre Oriental in Nuevo León, Mexico, to the range between 270 and 7700 years ago. Incised stones attributable to the Archaic component provide an estimate of the age of some of the 3000 petroglyphs at this site. Cut-and-fill cycles, pollen counts, and gastropod analyses contribute to the definition of two climat…
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