The 2002 Sul Ross State University Archeological Field School was held from May 29-July 1 at The Nature Conservancy’s Diamond Y Spring Preserve in Pecos County, Texas. The preserve currently encompasses 1,502 acres, the focus being Diamond Y Spring which forms a reservoir containing several species of endangered […]
from La Vista de la Frontera 2000 Vol. 13(1):2-3.
As 1868 came to a close, the heavy wagons creaked and groaned under the weight of cargo headed for Chihuahua. From San Antonio the wagons had followed […]
Reprinted from The Skyline 76(8): 6, October 22,1998 in La Vista de la Frontera 1999 Vol. 12(1):1-2, 4.
Summer school-Big Bend style-allowed Sul Ross State University archeology students to bring home some historic homework.
Prehistoric atlatl dart points, stone tools, matting, grass bedding, […]
J. B. McHam, a graduate student in geology at Sul Ross State University, in Alpine, Texas, made an exciting find in June at the Archeological Field School which was held at Elephant Mountain Wildlife Management Area.
The field school was a cooperative […]
The Journal of Big Bend Studies publishes articles that reach across many disciplines to enhance our understanding of the historical and cultural development of the southwestern United States and Northern Mexico, with emphasis on the Big Bend region of Texas, Chihuahua, and Coahuila.
The Journal of Big Bend Studies is published […]
La Vista de la Frontera is the Center for Big Bend Studies newsletter, summarizing our work in an easy-to-read format.
The Trans-Pecos of far west Texas is one of the archeologically richest—but scientifically most poorly known—regions of Texas. Publications from the Trans-Pecos Archeological Program (TAP) offer documentation, data, and interpretations from the Center’s scholarly studies and research activities in this program.
[…]
The Center for Big Bend Studies publishes and makes available to the public reports from the cultural resources management services they have provided to both the public and private sectors.
In 1996 is the Center for Big Bend Studies established a new publication series, called Occasional Papers, which allows the Center to publish book-length studies of an interdisciplinary nature.