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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 […]

Spirit Eye Cave – Data Dump: West Texas Sloth Dung Find Brings the Ice Age to Life on NATURE NOTES

It is no secret that learning the history of the human past requires collaboration with everyone in the sciences. We love being able collaborate with researchers to learn more about the deep history of the Big Bend. […]

NATURE NOTES: Data Dump: West Texas Sloth Dung Find Brings the Ice Age to Life

Bryon Schroeder is mentioned in interview on Spirit Eye Cave collaboration February, 3 2022 for Nature Notes: Marfa Public Radio

The interview lasts 5 minutes and 29 seconds is a 5.01 MB download.

Transcript

By Andrew Stuart

West Texas has a rich history in […]

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