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Archaeological Anthropology

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Archaeological Testing At San Marcos Springs (41hy160) For The Texas Rivers Center, Hays County, Texas, David L. Nickels, C. Britt Bousman Jan 2010

Archaeological Testing At San Marcos Springs (41hy160) For The Texas Rivers Center, Hays County, Texas, David L. Nickels, C. Britt Bousman

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

This report describes the results of investigations undertaken to assess the archaeological resources at the Spring Lake Site, 41HY160, on the campus of Texas State University-San Marcos in Hays County, Texas. The Spring Lake Site, 41HY160, was recorded in the 1980s at the Aquarena Center, then a privately owned water park. In 1994 Texas State University-San Marcos purchased the Aquarena Center with the intention of converting it into an educational and research facility focused on rivers and springs in Texas. Eventually the University founded the River Systems Institute and it is now housed at the Texas River Center in the …


Archaeological Investigations At The Ice House Site, 41hy161: Early Archaic Technology, Subsistence, And Settlement Along The Balcones Escarpment, Hays County, Texas, Erik Oksanen Jan 2010

Archaeological Investigations At The Ice House Site, 41hy161: Early Archaic Technology, Subsistence, And Settlement Along The Balcones Escarpment, Hays County, Texas, Erik Oksanen

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

On behalf of the Texas State University-San Marcos, the Center for Archaeological Studies (CAS) conducted data recovery excavations at the Icehouse site, a State Archeological Landmark (SAL), 41HY161, from May to September 2004. The excavations were a partial mitigation for the installation of flood control structures on Sessom Creek on property owned by the Texas State University-San Marcos. Investigative trenching discovered potentially significant cultural deposits within the proposed project area and the mitigation excavations were targeted to within the area of direct impact. As a state agency as defined by Section 61.003, Texas Education Code, Texas State University-San Marcos is …


Additional Archaeological Investigations Of The Propised Fulton Mansion Visitor's Center, Fulton Mansion State Historic (41as79), Rockport, Aransas County, Texas, Carole Leezer, Julian A. Sitters, Cinda Timperley Jan 2010

Additional Archaeological Investigations Of The Propised Fulton Mansion Visitor's Center, Fulton Mansion State Historic (41as79), Rockport, Aransas County, Texas, Carole Leezer, Julian A. Sitters, Cinda Timperley

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

The Center for Archaeological Studies at Texas State University-San Marcos conducted additional archaeological investigations for the proposed Fulton Mansion State Historic Site (41AS79) Visitor’s Center, Aransas County, Texas, between October 19 and November 13, 2009 on behalf of the Texas Historical Commission Historic Sites Division. Investigations of the Area of Potential Effect are a continuation of testing investigations begun by Ringstaff in 2007 (Ringstaff 2008). Work was carried out by Carole Leezer as Project Archaeologist, Julian A. Sitters and Sarah Scogin as Archaeological Technicians, and Jon C. Lohse as Principal Investigator under Texas Antiquities Permit No. 5420. Investigations included backhoe …


Journal Of Northeast Texas Archaeology, Volume 33, Timothy K. Perttula, Tom Middlebrook, Mark Walters, Bo Nelson Jan 2010

Journal Of Northeast Texas Archaeology, Volume 33, Timothy K. Perttula, Tom Middlebrook, Mark Walters, Bo Nelson

CRHR: Archaeology

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Caddo Pottery Vessels And Pipes From Sites In The Big Cypress, Sulphur, Neches-Angelina, And Middle Sabine River Basins In The Turner And Johns Collections, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Harrison, Morris, Titus, And Upshur Counties, Texas And Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Timothy K. Perttula, Mark Walters, Bo Nelson Jan 2010

Caddo Pottery Vessels And Pipes From Sites In The Big Cypress, Sulphur, Neches-Angelina, And Middle Sabine River Basins In The Turner And Johns Collections, Camp, Cass, Cherokee, Harrison, Morris, Titus, And Upshur Counties, Texas And Sabine Parish, Louisiana, Timothy K. Perttula, Mark Walters, Bo Nelson

CRHR: Archaeology

No abstract provided.


Journal Of Northeast Texas Archaeology, Volume 32, Timothy K. Perttula, Bo Nelson Jan 2010

Journal Of Northeast Texas Archaeology, Volume 32, Timothy K. Perttula, Bo Nelson

CRHR: Archaeology

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Architectural Variability In The Caddo Area Of Eastern Texas, T. Clay Schultz Jan 2010

Architectural Variability In The Caddo Area Of Eastern Texas, T. Clay Schultz

CRHR: Archaeology

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Macusani Obsidian From Southern Peru: A Characterization Of Its Elemental Composition With A Demonstration Of Its Ancient Use, Nathan M. Craig, Robert Speakman, R. Popelka-Filcoff, Mark Aldenderfer, Luis Flores Blanco, Margaret Brown Vega, Michael Glasscock, Charles Stanish Jan 2010

Macusani Obsidian From Southern Peru: A Characterization Of Its Elemental Composition With A Demonstration Of Its Ancient Use, Nathan M. Craig, Robert Speakman, R. Popelka-Filcoff, Mark Aldenderfer, Luis Flores Blanco, Margaret Brown Vega, Michael Glasscock, Charles Stanish

Nathan M Craig

Transparent obsidian artifacts have been reported for the northern Lake Titicaca Basin. Based on instrumental neutron activation analysis (INAA) of these artifacts a distinct chemical group was identified. Yet, the location of the source of transparent obsidian in the southern Andes remained unreported in the archaeological literature. This paper reports on the chemical composition and geographic location of a source of transparent obsidian from the Macusani region of Peru. Through the use of INAA and portable X-ray fluorescence (PXRF) we demonstrate that Macusani obsidian or macusanite comprises (at least) two chemical groups. One of these groups was used for making …


Regional Patterns Of Fortification And Single Forts: Evaluating The Articulation Of Regional Sociopolitical Dynamics With Localized Phenomena, Margaret Brown Vega Jan 2010

Regional Patterns Of Fortification And Single Forts: Evaluating The Articulation Of Regional Sociopolitical Dynamics With Localized Phenomena, Margaret Brown Vega

Margaret Brown Vega

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The Imprint Of China’S First Emperor On The Distant Realm Of Eastern Shandong, Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas, Hui Fang Jan 2010

The Imprint Of China’S First Emperor On The Distant Realm Of Eastern Shandong, Gary M. Feinman, Linda M. Nicholas, Hui Fang

Gary M. Feinman

Imperial expansion is recurrent in human history. For early empires, such as in ancient China, this process generally is known from texts that glorify and present the perspective of victors. The legacy of the Qin king, Shihuangdi, who first unified China in 221 BC, remains vital, but we have few details about the consequences of his distant conquests or how they changed the path of local histories. We integrate documentary accounts with the findings of a systematic regional survey of archaeological sites to provide a holistic context for this imperialistic episode and the changes that followed in coastal Shandong.


Preindustrial Markets And Marketing: Archaeological Perspectives, Gary M. Feinman, Christopher P. Garraty Jan 2010

Preindustrial Markets And Marketing: Archaeological Perspectives, Gary M. Feinman, Christopher P. Garraty

Gary M. Feinman

Markets are key contemporary institutions, yet there is little agreement concerning their history or diversity. To complicate matters, markets have been considered by different academic disciplines that approach the nature of such exchange systems from diametrically opposed perspectives that impede cross-disciplinary dialogue. This paper reviews the theoretical and methodological issues surrounding the detection, development, and significance of markets in the preindustrial past. We challenge both the view that marketing is natural and the perspective that market exchange is unique to modern capitalist contexts. Both of these frameworks fail to recognize that past and present market activities are embedded in their …


Book Review: The Archaeology Of Alcohol And Drinking, Douglas Ross Jan 2010

Book Review: The Archaeology Of Alcohol And Drinking, Douglas Ross

Douglas Ross

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Giving Voice To Choice: Integrating Scientific, Ethnographic, And Historical Analysis To Understand 17th Century Native Pottery From Western New England, Julie A. Woods, Matthew T. Boulanger, Elizabeth S. Chilton, David V. Hill, Michael D. Glascock Jan 2010

Giving Voice To Choice: Integrating Scientific, Ethnographic, And Historical Analysis To Understand 17th Century Native Pottery From Western New England, Julie A. Woods, Matthew T. Boulanger, Elizabeth S. Chilton, David V. Hill, Michael D. Glascock

Julie Woods

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Cycling In The Complexity Of Early Societies, Sergey Gavrilets, David G. Anderson, Peter Turchin Jan 2010

Cycling In The Complexity Of Early Societies, Sergey Gavrilets, David G. Anderson, Peter Turchin

David G. Anderson

Warfare is commonly viewed as a driving force of the process of aggregation of initially independent villages into larger and more complex political units that started several thousand years ago and quickly lead to the appearance of chiefdoms, states, and empires. Here we build on extensions and generalizations of Carneiro’s (1970) argument to develop a spatially explicit agent-based model of the emergence of early complex societies via warfare. In our model polities are represented as hierarchically structured networks of villages whose size, power, and complexity change as a result of conquest, secession, internal reorganization (via promotion and linearization), and resource …


Epv 10 Ceramic Forms 2010 File 02 (1), Cassandra Bill Jan 2010

Epv 10 Ceramic Forms 2010 File 02 (1), Cassandra Bill

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv Ceramic Forms 2010 File 02, Casandra Bill Jan 2010

Epv Ceramic Forms 2010 File 02, Casandra Bill

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv 048 Valenzuela Field Notes 2010, Jasmin Valenzuela Jan 2010

Epv 048 Valenzuela Field Notes 2010, Jasmin Valenzuela

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Epv 047 Jarrett Field Notes 2010, Rebecca Jarrett Jan 2010

Epv 047 Jarrett Field Notes 2010, Rebecca Jarrett

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Epv 043 Hall Field Notes 2010, Lauren Hall Jan 2010

Epv 043 Hall Field Notes 2010, Lauren Hall

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv 042 Szirmay Field Notes 2010, Jenica Szirmay Jan 2010

Epv 042 Szirmay Field Notes 2010, Jenica Szirmay

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv 46 Rogoff Field Notes 2010, David Rogoff Jan 2010

Epv 46 Rogoff Field Notes 2010, David Rogoff

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Epv 044 Munoz Field Notes 2010, Melissa Munoz Jan 2010

Epv 044 Munoz Field Notes 2010, Melissa Munoz

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Epv 039 Lopez Field Notes 2010, Catalina Lopez Jan 2010

Epv 039 Lopez Field Notes 2010, Catalina Lopez

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv 017 Hostenske Field Notes 2010, Mary Hostenske Jan 2010

Epv 017 Hostenske Field Notes 2010, Mary Hostenske

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Epv 040 Kittel Field Notes 2010, Michelle Mike Kittel Jan 2010

Epv 040 Kittel Field Notes 2010, Michelle Mike Kittel

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Epv 001 Ellen E Bell Field Notes 2010, Ellen Bell Jan 2010

Epv 001 Ellen E Bell Field Notes 2010, Ellen Bell

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Epv 032 Johnson Field Notes 2010, Erlend Johnson Jan 2010

Epv 032 Johnson Field Notes 2010, Erlend Johnson

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv Op 10-33 Lot Forms 2010, Catalina Lopez Jan 2010

Epv Op 10-33 Lot Forms 2010, Catalina Lopez

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv Op 10-35 Lot Forms 2010, Michelle Kittel Jan 2010

Epv Op 10-35 Lot Forms 2010, Michelle Kittel

Four Valleys Archive

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Epv Op 10-34 Lot Forms 2010, Jenica Szirmay Jan 2010

Epv Op 10-34 Lot Forms 2010, Jenica Szirmay

Four Valleys Archive

No abstract provided.