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 […]
Published August 9, 2019 in the Texas Observer, story by Sasha von Oldershausen
Like a cross-section of the desert, David Keller’s book reveals layers of overlapping history in the spectacular and rugged Pinto Canyon.
“Other than by foot or horseback, there are only two ways to get to Pinto Canyon,” […]
Published April 15, 2019 in the San Antonio Express News, story by John MacCormack
For the urban tourists bound from Marfa to the Chinati Hot Springs, the desert canyon is mute as to the human dramas that played out here over the last century.
Tucked into a remote corner of […]
Published April 11, 2016 in the San Antonio Express News, story by John MacCormack
When the shooting ended on the moonlit night of Jan. 28, 1918, the crumpled bodies of 15 unarmed Mexican boys and men between the ages of 16 and 72 lay scattered in the brush downriver […]
Trans-Pecos Texas is located in the north-central portion of the Chihuahuan Desert, one of the highest North American deserts in terms of both maximum and mean elevation above sea level. The region lies along the eastern edge of the Basin and Range province, a physiographically variable land mass characterized by […]
People come from far and wide to experience the Big Bend. The spellbinding desert mountain scenery, the wide vistas and deep canyon gorges, and the majestic mountain “islands” in the basin “seas,” all tend to build in the bloodstream, […]
