Eagle Nest Canyon and the Ancient Southwest Texas Project

Summary

This is an abstract from the "The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Eagle Nest Canyon joins the Rio Grande at Langtry, Texas, in the western Lower Pecos Canyonlands. Despite its relatively short length, this storied box canyon contains a dense archaeological record representing at least thirteen millennia of human activity and has seen intermittent archaeological investigation for almost a century. This paper introduces the canyon, its landowners, and its archaeological history. The authors are co-directors of the Ancient Southwest Texas Project (ASWT), an ongoing research program based at Texas State University. Since 2010, Texas State students and faculty have worked with colleagues, volunteers, and the landowners to carry out state-of-the-art archaeological investigation of rockshelter, terrace, and upland sites within and overlooking Eagle Nest Canyon. Key ASWT themes have been geoarchaeology, stratigraphic sampling, 3D photogrammetric documentation, archaeobotany, zooarchaeology, and earth ovens, following the motto “Low Impact, High Resolution.”

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• The Archaeology of Eagle Nest Canyon, Texas: Papers in Honor of Jack and Wilmuth Skiles   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 38489.0