Texas Archaic: A Symposium

Summary

The papers published in this volume were presented at a symposium entitled "The Texas Archaic,” held in San Antonio on November 2, 1975, during the annual meeting of the Texas. Archeological Society. Of those papers delivered during this symposium, only one, “Archaic Diets and Food Economies" (by V. M. Bryant, Jr.), is not presently available for publication.

The present format has been utilized to insure rapid and economical publication of the symposium papers. The papers are primarily status reports, describing the current state of regional knowledge of the Archaic or dealing with specific aspects of the Archaic lifeway. As such, they are primarily designed to stimulate discussion and future research. They provide professional archaeologists interested in Texas archaeology with data and interpretations more recent than those contained in the Introductory Handbook of Texas Archaeology (Suhm, Krieger and Jelks 1954) and the subsequent review of Texas archaeology published as volume 29 of the Bulletin on the Texas Archeological Society (1958). It is also hoped that these papers will help to introduce the growing number of amateur archaeologists in Texas to the many problems of the State's prehistory still remaining to be solved. It will take the concerted and collaborative efforts of both professionals and amateurs to come up with the solutions.

The papers included in this publication are as follows:

"Defining the Archaic: An Example from the Lower Pecos Area of Texas" (Harry J. Shafer)

"Tool Kits and Technology in the Texas Archaic" (Joel L. Shiner)

"Blade Technology in the Texas Archaic" (L.W. Patterson)

"Western Trans-Pecos Archaic Chronology: Fact or Fiction" (Gary L. Moore)

"The Panhandle Archaic" (Jack T. Hughes)

"The Archaic Period in North Central Texas" (Olin F. McCormick)

"The Archaic of East Texas" (Dee Ann Story)

"The Central Texas Archaic Reconsidered" (Frank A. Weir)

"Late Archaic Occupations at the Loeve-Fox Site: The San Marcos and Twin Sisters Phases" (Elton R. Prewitt)

"The Archaic of Southern Texas" (Thomas R. Hester)

"The Archaic of the Texas Coast" (James E. Corbin)

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• National Archeological Database (NADB)

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Contact(s): Cultural Resource Office, Joint Base San Antonio

Contributor(s): Harry J. Shafer; Joel L. Shiner; L.W. Patterson; Gary L. Moore; Jack T. Hughes; Olin F. McCormick; Dee Ann Story; Frank A. Weir; Elton R. Prewitt; Thomas R. Hester; James E. Corbin

Repository(s): Fort Sam Houston

Prepared By(s): Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio

Record Identifiers

NADB Citation ID(s): 000000055093; 000000009255

NADB Document ID(s): 2150072; 360351

Notes

General Note: The initial citation information for this record was migrated into tDAR from the National Archaeological Database Reports Module (NADB-R) and has since then been updated.

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