Brewster County, Texas (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Charcoal from the floor of the central depression of a sotol baking pit at Site BIBE00481 in Brewster County, Texas, was collected for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. This site is a rock shelter with rock imagery panels located in a remote area within the Big Bend National Park. Analyses of the charcoal sample will be used to determine the most recent use of the cooking feature within the rockshelter. The estimated age is Middle to Late Archaic; however, sites in the vicinity have no...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kovacik.

A single charcoal sample was submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating from the Genevieve Lykes Duncan Site (41BS2615) on the 02 Ranch, approximately 25 miles south of Alpine in Brewster County, Texas. Initial excavations at the site identified it as a buried, open campsite with three locales. The charcoal sample was collected from between and around the rocks of Feature 18, a buried hearth, at the Broadway Locale. Although this area has experienced multiple occupations including...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A single charcoal sample from the Juncture Site, 02-390, was submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. The site is located in Brewster County, Texas. This general area experienced multiple occupations including Paleoindian, Early Archaic, and Middle Archaic. Charcoal was recovered from a buried rock-lined hearth. Identification of charcoal provides information concerning types of wood burned as fuel by the site occupants, while an AMS radiocarbon date provides temporal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from a hearth fragment at the Rockshelter Ridge site (41BS1533) in Brewster County, Texas, was floated to recover charcoal for radiocarbon dating. This hearth fragment was eroding out of the side of a gully. The site consists of a series of 14 rockshelters, and artifacts from the site date from possibly as early as 6,000 BP to approximately 500 years BP. Charcoal from the hearth was processed for AMS radiocarbon dating.