Author : Dan R. Davis
Publisher :
Page : 476 pages
File Size : 17,53 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Arrowheads
ISBN :
Pictures of tool assemblages of the Indians who lived in Texas. Over 1,700 artifacts have been photographed depicting the size, dimensions and flake scars as accurately as possible.
Author : Ellen Sue Turner
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 28,72 MB
Release : 2011-12-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1589794656
Useful for academic and recreational archaeologists alike, this book identifies and describes over 200 projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native American Indians in Texas. This third edition boasts twice as many illustrations—all drawn from actual specimens—and still includes charts, geographic distribution maps and reliable age-dating information. The authors also demonstrate how factors such as environment, locale and type of artifact combine to produce a portrait of theses ancient cultures.
Author : Ellen Sue Turner
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 18,17 MB
Release : 1999-01-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1461718171
A Field Guide to Stone Artifacts of Texas Indians identifies and describes more than 200 dart and arrow projectile points and stone tools used by prehistoric Native Americans in Texas.
Author : Dan R. Davis (Jr.)
Publisher :
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 16,55 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Indians of North America
ISBN :
Identification, description, comparison of dart & arrow points, tools & implements, with life-size research quality photos.
Author : Timothy K. Perttula
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 37,30 MB
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : 9781585441945
The first look at the prehistory of Texas by 16 professional archaeologist.
Author : Thomas R. Hester
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 27,1 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Social Science
ISBN :
Author : Linda Crawford Culberson
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 19,32 MB
Release : 2009-11-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 160473485X
The Native American tribes of what is now the southeastern United States left intriguing relics of their ancient cultural life. Arrowheads, spear points, stone tools, and other artifacts are found in newly plowed fields, on hillsides after a fresh rain, or in washed-out creek beds. These are tangible clues to the anthropology of the Paleo-Indians, and the highly developed Mississippian peoples. This indispensable guide to identifying and understanding such finds is for conscientious amateur archeologists who make their discoveries in surface terrain. Many are eager to understand the culture that produced the artifact, what kind of people created it, how it was made, how old it is, and what its purpose was. Here is a handbook that seeks identification through the clues of cultural history. In discussing materials used, the process of manufacture, and the relationship between the artifacts and the environments, it reveals ancient discoveries to be not merely interesting trinkets but by-products from the once vital societies in areas that are now Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, the Carolinas, as well as in southeastern Texas, southern Missouri, southern Illinois, and southern Indiana. The text is documented by more than a hundred drawings in the actual size of the artifacts, as well as by a glossary of archeological terms and a helpful list of state and regional archeological societies.
Author : Texas
Publisher :
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 47,8 MB
Release : 1978
Category : Natural resources
ISBN :
Author : W.W. Newcomb
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 610 pages
File Size : 36,65 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 0292793243
An anthropological history of Native Americans in the Lone Star State. First published in 1961, this study explores the ethnography of the Indian tribes who lived in the region that is now the state of Texas since the beginning of the historic period. The tribes covered include: Coahuiltecans Karankawas Lipan Apaches Tonkawas Comanches; Kiowas and Kiowa Apaches Jumanos Wichitas Caddos Atakapans “Newcomb’s book is likely to remain the best general work on Texas Indians for a long time.” —American Antiquity “An excellent and long-needed survey of the ethnography of the Indian tribes who resided within the present limits of Texas since the beginning of the historic period. . . . The book is the most comprehensive. scholarly, and authoritative account covering all the Indians of Texas, and is an invaluable and indispensable reference for students of Texas history, for anthropologists, and for lovers of Indian lore.” —Ethnohistory “Dr. Newcomb writes persuasively and with economy, and he has used his material very well indeed. . . . His presentation makes good reading of what might have been a book only for the specialists.” —Saturday Review
Author : Richard Mather Ahlstrom
Publisher :
Page : 598 pages
File Size : 29,20 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
ISBN :
One of the most popular literary subjects worldwide is the American Civil War. In addition to an enormous number of history buffs, there are tens of thousands of collectors of Civil War artifacts. In the last fifty years, several books have been written concerning the equipment associated with soldiers of specific Confederate states, but no book until now has ever chronicled the military equipment used by Texas soldiers. Texas Civil War Artifacts is the first comprehensive guide to the physical culture of Texas Civil War soldiers. Texas military equipment differs in a number of ways from the equipment produced for the eastern Confederate states. Most of the Texas-produced equipment was blacksmithed, or local-artisan made, and in many cases featured the Lone Star as a symbol of Texas. Contemporary Civil War literature frequently mentions that most soldiers of Texas displayed the Lone Star somewhere on their uniform or equipment. In this groundbreaking volume, Richard Mather Ahlstrom has photographed and described more than five hundred Texas-related artifacts. He shows the diverse use of the Lone Star on hat pins, waist-belt plates, buckles, horse equipment, side knives, buttons, and canteens. In addition, the weapons that Texans used in the Civil War are featured in chapters on the Tucker Sherrard and Colt pistols; shotguns, rifles, and muskets; and swords. Rounding out the volume are chapters on leather accouterments, uniforms and headgear, and a gallery of Texas soldiers in photographs. This book will prove to be a valuable reference guide for Civil War collectors, historians, museum curators, re-enactors, and federal and state agencies.
