2021 Summer Field School
San Esteban Rockshelter
June 1 to July 6, 2021
6 credit hours (3 ten-day field sessions)
The 2021 CBBS-SRSU ANTH 3601 Summer Field School will be taught at the San Esteban Rockshelter near Marfa, Texas. This is a rare chance to work at a dry rockshelter in gorgeous West Texas.
CBBS 29th Annual Conference Agenda
Devin Pettigrew
Devin Pettigrew, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Department of Behavioral and Social Sciences
Center for Big Bend Studies
Sul Ross State University
Ferguson Hall, Suite 114 B, Box C-71
Alpine, TX 79832
Phone: 432-837-8221
Fax: (432) 837-8381
Email: devin.pettigrew@sulross.edu
Devin […]
CBBS Banquet Keynote Speaker
Odyssey and CBBS Partnership
CBBS Research in the NEW YORKER!!!
The Center for Big Bend Studies Director, Dr. Bryon Schroeder’s research at Spirit Eye Cave was featured in the New Yorker!! The article, “The Bodies in the Cave” was written by Rachel Monroe, and the art is illustrated by Marco Quadri, was published October 3, 2022.
Months of sleuthing, difficult conversations, […]
28th Annual CBBS Conference Registration is OPEN
The conference schedule is now up! This year’s conference is November 11-12, 2022 on Sul Ross State University campus at the Morgan University Center. The conference brings together historians, archaeologists, folklorists and other researchers studying the past and present of the Big Bend region and northern Mexico. The silent […]
NATURE NOTES: Below the Chinati Mountains, “Boulder Glyphs” Evoke a History of Violence and Conflict in the Big Bend
Erika Blecha interviewed September 26, 2019 for Nature Notes: Marfa Public Radio
The interview lasts 5 minutes and 0 seconds and is a 4.64 MB download.
Transcript
By Andrew Stuart
Rock art is a powerful expression of the Native American past here. From Palo […]