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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dr. Rolfe Mandel from the University of Kansas, and Dr. Bryon Schroeder talk about our latest collaborative work in locating the continent’s first people in the Texas desert on Marfa Public Radio’s Nature Notes.

Listen to or read the story on Marfa […]