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, […]
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 […]
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By Andrew Stuart
Rock art is a powerful expression of the Native American past here. From Palo […]
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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 […]
Call for VOLUNTEERS!
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 A. 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 […]
