Traditional Cultural Property Study of Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas
Author(s): Mary Jo Galindo
Year: 2018
Summary
Camp Bowie, near the headwaters of the Colorado River in Brown County, Texas, is surrounded by what the Spanish referred to as "Comanchería," or Comanche Country. The Texas Military Department completed a Traditional Cultural Properties (TCP) survey of Camp Bowie during which, representatives of the Comanche Nation visited a total of 45 sites and identified six locales as TCPs, while defining historic Comanche components for 41 sites. The Mescalero Apache visited a total of 31 sites, including seven sites that are eligible for the NRHP. All of these sites were located in upland settings, and the eligible sites each contained a Late Prehistoric-era burned rock midden. Representatives of the Mescalero Apache Tribe concurred with the identification of TCP 1, a complex of springs and rock overhangs along Devil’s River, and also defined an Apache Ethnographic Landscape that encompasses TCP 1 and 52 other sites.
Cite this Record
Traditional Cultural Property Study of Camp Bowie, Brown County, Texas. Mary Jo Galindo. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, New Orleans, Louisiana. 2018 ( tDAR id: 441497)
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Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
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Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 871