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By Andrew Stuart
“The past,” it’s famously been said, “is a foreign country.” […]
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 […]
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We need volunteers to help us excavate and water screen at the Genevieve Lykes Duncan site in Brewster County, May 16 […]
Published April 28, 2022 in the KIVA Journal of Southwestern Anthropology and History authored by Bryon Schroeder
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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 […]
Published April, 2021 in the Journal of Archaeological Science, authored by Bryon Schroeder, Tre Blohm, and Meradeth H. Snow
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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 […]
Published March 25, 2021 in the Texas Journal of Science, authored by Jim I. Mead, Bryon Schroeder, and Chad L. Yost
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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 […]
Published November, 2017 in the SAA Archaeological Record, authored by Bryon Schroeder
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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 […]
Published March 8, 2019 in the Lithic Technology, authored by Bryon Schroeder and Taylor Greer
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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 […]
