Caitlin Carvajal
Program Coordinator
Center for Big Bend Studies
Sul Ross State University
Ferguson Hall, Suite 114, Box C-71
Alpine, TX 79832
Phone: 432-837-8179
Fax: (432) 837-8381
Email: caitlin.carvajal@sulross.edu
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CBBS archaeologist, Erika Blecha, went to Santa Fe, New Mexico to study with Mary Weahkee at the New Mexico Office of Archaeological Studies, to learn how to make two different types of Yucca sandals and Yucca fiber cordage found. This was a wonderful experience […]
CBBS is excited to announce a new publication in the Texas Journal of Science on Late Pleistocene SLOTH DUNG found in Spirit Eye Cave in Presidio County, Texas. This was a collaboration between the Mammoth Site of Hot Springs, South Dakota, CBBS, and Indiana […]
The Center will be conducting a field school this summer at San Esteban Rockshelter in Marfa, Texas. Details are in the picture, and please do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.
This week, the Big Bend Ancient DNA research conducted by CBBS Director Dr. Bryon Schroeder in collaboration with Dr. Meredith Snow and Tre Blohm from the University of Montana is featured on Marfa Public Radio’s Nature Notes. This research was published in the Journal […]
The interview lasts 7 minutes and 45 seconds and is a 3.08 MB download.
By Andrew Stuart
It is – to put it mildly – a fraught history. Thousands of Native […]
This week, preliminary research by CBBS on defensive sites in the Big Bend Region was featured on Marfa Public Radio’s Nature Notes. For archaeologists, defensive sites are an essential indicator of group conflict and help us understand the conditions that lead to war. Link […]
The interview lasts 5 minutes and is a 4.64 MB download.
By Andrew Stuart
Our region’s Native American legacy endures in communities and living cultural traditions – and in countless emblems […]
NEW PUBLICATION: From the Center’s in-house publication series: Trans –Pecos Archaeological Program No. 7, “Prehistory in the Calamity Creek Valley: Brewster County, Texas.” This book not only documents the work done by a 1996 Sul Ross State University archaeological field school, but it also […]
Over the Thanksgiving holiday, CBBS senior project archeologist, David Keller, conducted adobe testing at Castolon in Big Bend National Park in preparation for a major historic preservation effort on the Alvino and Dorgan houses under a cooperative agreement with the National Park Service. The […]
