The Lone Star State is home to a rich heritage of archaeology and history, from 14,000-year-old stone tools to the famed Alamo.
Brian DeLay’s War of a Thousand Deserts is a history of the Indian raids into Mexico that preceded the U.S.-Mexican War. The focus is on the Apaches and Kiowas, but especially the Comanches. Delay discusses the cultural and economic geography Read More …
I am proposing an outdoor museum to encompass buildings in the Gonzales area that date between the early 1800’s to the early 1900’s, to be erected on a site at the northwest part of the city of Gonzales.
A 1500 acre area along Mill Race Creek and tributaries was surveyed to locate and evaluate protohistoric (ca. A.D. 15401685) and early historic (A. D. 1685-1821) sites relating to a possible French trading post called Le Dout, and to the Read More …
The French presence in east Texas during the eighteenth century is less well known from an archaeological or archival standpoint than is the Spanish. Although it is known that the French maintained several trading establishments within this part of the Read More …
The Lower Pecos River region is one of the few areas of Texas where early history and prehistory are largely reconstructed from the archeology of caves and rock shelters. Prehistoric people lived in rock shelters, buried their dead in caves, Read More …
In 1863, the San Elizario Salt Road was built with public funds to provide access to seemingly endless salt deposits in relict lakebeds west of the Guadalupe Mountains in West Texas. At that time salt was more than a basic Read More …
El Paso del Norte was a thriving agricultural region on the Santa Fe-Chihuahua trail when the U.S.-Mexico War (1846-1848) and the 1849 gold rush turned it into a border town on the southern route to California. The diaries and letters Read More …
William Horace Rivers was born on April 21, 1915 in Snyder, Texas. Five years later his family moved to the Canadian, Texas area in 1920. It was at this time he developed a strong interest in the native peoples of Read More …
During August 2010, The Center for Archaeological Research (CAR) of The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) conducted an intensive pedestrian archaeological survey of the proposed Helton San Antonio River Nature Park located near Floresville, Texas in Wilson County Read More …
The Bolivar Archaeological Project exemplifies the possibilities of archaeology as service, incorporating descendant communities and local stakeholders into the fabric of the research design and planning for a state infrastructure project. This collaborative, multidisciplinary project attends to marginalized histories to Read More …