During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, Puebloan women (if not entire families)
were incorporated into Apache Dismal River communities in western Kansas. In at least one …

The uniquely Texan system that arose from the state's agricultural heritage, a mixture of
practices and traditions from New Spain, Mexico, Europe, and the South, was the foundation …

Bone-tempered pottery is commonly found at Late Prehistoric and historic sites in both south
and central Texas. While most scholars have assumed the inclusions are bone, attempts to …

For more than one hundred years, archaeologists in southern New Mexico and the
neighboring west Texas and northern Chihuahua have studied the prehispanic lifeways of …

Archaeological remains from the Toyah Phase (1300-1650 CE), prior to Spanish
colonization of the American Southern Plains in central and south Texas, suggest that …

Feasting is an important socio-economic system adopted by diverse groups worldwide.
Feasting traditions among mobile groups, however, have been difficult to recognize …

To evaluate the performance of inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) in
determining ceramic provenance, we analyzed 60 elements in 30 ceramic artifacts from six a …

Recent archaeological investigations of five Lower Walnut focus sites (AD 1400-1720) in
south-central Kansas recovered sherds from vessels manufactured by prehistoric Caddo …

Cowhead Mesa is located along the eastern escarpment of the Southern High Plains near
Post, Texas. Survey and excavation on top of the mesa have uncovered evidence for …

In ancestral times, beginning in the ninth century AD, long before Europeans came to what
became Texas and the United States, the Caddo Indians established themselves as mound …