The Ellen Sue Turner Memorial Fund has been established by the CBBS to honor her for her many contributions to Texas archaeology.
She was very passionate about research and educational pursuits in this field, and this initiative would be another way
her […]
In conjunction with the Archives of the Big Bend, CBBS facilitated the collection and scanning of several hundred pages of original historic documents related to the history of La Sociedad Agricola de El Mulato. Also facilitated was a meeting between Oscar Rodriguez, Enrique Madrid, Guadalupe Perez, and donor Arnaldo Carrasco […]
CBBS conducted research on and oversaw restoration work of a mud mortared stone structure at a historic 1880s military camp. Fieldwork included a detailed recording of structure, surface survey, an aerial photogrammetric project, and monitoring during restoration efforts of main structure. The project was completed in the Fall of 2013. […]
This decade-long project, probably the largest surface survey in the state’s history, consisted of intensive survey of over 60,000 acres, the discovery and recording of over 1,500 archeological sites and the collection of over 2,300 artifacts. Artifacts, features, and sites were documented that had not been previously recorded in the […]
On September 8, the Museum of the Big Bend in partnership with the Center for Big Bend Studies and Humanities Texas, opened the highly anticipated exhibit, “Removing the Shroud of Mystery: Archaeology in the Big Bend.” Found across the vast Big Bend region of Texas are clues left behind that […]
Two large, side-by-side thermal features (each over 2 m in width) were excavated at a site on the Canon Ranch in June 2011. One of these contains a relatively dense pavement of stones, the other a looser pavement/stone-free center. The juxtaposition of these distinctively shaped features—within several meters of one […]
The Logan’s Terrace (41TE676) site—located near the Pecos River on the Nature Conservancy’s Independence Creek Preserve—was tested in 2010 with several excavation units. Large mammal bones had previously been discovered eroding from several localities along a cut bank and subsequent analysis had identified these as bison bones. Since bison remains […]
The Birthday site was discovered in 2009 at the edge of the ecotone separating the lowland desert and lowest foothills of the Davis Mountains. In settings such as this, diverse floral and faunal communities occur in tandem with concentrated archaeological sites. Three separate thermal features exposed in erosional cuts across […]
In the summer of 2010, CBBS personnel discovered a discrete, short-term campsite of Late Prehistoric peoples that promises major scientific returns. Termed the Perdiz Trail site (02-269, and radiocarbon dated to A.D. 1450—1530, this small, rather nondescript campsite was occupied by a group of hunters for only seven to ten […]
The John Z. and Exa Means Cache, discovered in 2002 by D. Craige Means and his sons, Samuel and Jesse, contains over 1,250 stone arrow points. Importantly, the discoverers contacted CBBS archaeologists about their find and allowed archaeological participation during excavation of a portion of the cache feature, thus ensuring […]
