Call for Papers!! 28th Annual CBBS Conference, November 11-12, 2022
We are happy to announce that we are accepting submissions for our 2022 Annual Conference!! The Conference is scheduled for Friday and Saturday, November 11 and 12. We […]
Call for Volunteers at GLD!! May 16 through June 6, 2022
Call for VOLUNTEERS!
We need volunteers to help us excavate and water screen at the Genevieve Lykes Duncan site in Brewster County, May 16 […]
New CBBS Publications – May 2022
We are excited to announce THREE new publications this month, along with an article featured in our Spring 2022 Newsletter that is now […]
Evidence of Late Archaic Maize Use in the Big Bend Region of West Texas
Published April 28, 2022 in the KIVA Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History authored by Bryon Schroeder
ABSTRACT
The identification of Late Archaic maize from the Big Bend portion of the Trans-Pecos region of West Texas places it among the earliest use of cultigens reported throughout the American Southwest. The previous […]
Spirit Eye Cave: Reestablishing Provenience of Trafficked Prehistoric Human Remains using a Composite Collection-Based Ancient DNA Approach
Published April, 2021 in the Journal of Archaeological Science, authored by Bryon Schroeder, Tre Blohm, and Meradeth H. Snow
ABSTRACT
Spirit Eye Cave, located on private land in west Texas near the US/Mexico border, contains as many as four human interments removed by pay-to-dig collectors in the 1950–60 […]
Late Pleistocene Shasta Ground Sloth (XENARTHRA) Dung, diet, and environment from the Sierra Vieja, Presidio County Texas
Published March 25, 2021 in the Texas Journal of Science, authored by Jim I. Mead, Bryon Schroeder, and Chad L. Yost
ABSTRACT
We present new information about the Late Pleistocene Shasta ground sloth (Nothrotheriops shastensis). Spirit Eye Cave in the Sierra Vieja along the Rio Grande provides the […]
The Mark of a Looter: The Progression of Fieldwork and Research at a Looted Cave Site
Published November, 2017 in the SAA Archaeological Record, authored by Bryon Schroeder
ABSTRACT
Chinati Mountain, Novak-Benke, Spirit Eye—the multiple names for a single prehistorically occupied cave, each representing different chapters of a connected story. Chinati Mountain was the name given to the cave by nonlocal artifact collectors who exhumed a […]
Pebbles in Archaeological Contexts: A Case Study from a West Texas Cave
Published March 8, 2019 in the Lithic Technology, authored by Bryon Schroeder and Taylor Greer
ABSTRACT
The recovery of hundreds of unmodified polished pebbles from excavations at Spirit Eye Cave in West Texas provides an opportunity to analyze an underreported class of lithic artifact. When unmodified pebbles are recovered from […]
A Rare Find: OBSIDIAN Perdiz Arrow Point!!
Earlier this week, we found a bifacially worked OBSIDIAN Perdiz arrow point! This is one of the few diagnostic artifacts we have discovered […]
NEW MERCH!!
We have NEW MERCH!!