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The Mariposa Site: A Late Prehistoric Site On The Rio Grande Plain Of Texas, John L. Montgomery

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

This study of the results of archaeological survey and excavation at the Mariposa site is a contribution to three levels of the discipline. As a pioneering report of detailed excavation data from south Texas, it is a contribution by way of a substantial start on filling in a gap which has existed in regional cultural history. While this is an elementary contribution, it is just the sort of fundamental effort which we are discovering must yet be done in many geographic areas of the United States. The fundamental, detailed examination of the archaeological record in North America is far from …