The Toyah Phase of Central Texas

Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes

Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Archaeology, History, Americas, Native American, United States
Cover of the book The Toyah Phase of Central Texas by Douglas K. Boyd, John W. Arnn III, Zackary I. Gilmore, Nancy Adele Kenmotsu, Leonard Kemp, Karl W. Kibler, Raymond Mauldin, Khori Newlander, Elton R. Prewitt, Jennifer Thompson, John D. Speth, Texas A&M University Press
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Author: Douglas K. Boyd, John W. Arnn III, Zackary I. Gilmore, Nancy Adele Kenmotsu, Leonard Kemp, Karl W. Kibler, Raymond Mauldin, Khori Newlander, Elton R. Prewitt, Jennifer Thompson, John D. Speth ISBN: 9781603447553
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press Publication: September 1, 2012
Imprint: Texas A&M University Press Language: English
Author: Douglas K. Boyd, John W. Arnn III, Zackary I. Gilmore, Nancy Adele Kenmotsu, Leonard Kemp, Karl W. Kibler, Raymond Mauldin, Khori Newlander, Elton R. Prewitt, Jennifer Thompson, John D. Speth
ISBN: 9781603447553
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Publication: September 1, 2012
Imprint: Texas A&M University Press
Language: English

In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition.

Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite recent, offer other views of this culture, whose homeland covered much of Central and South Texas. For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together a number of perspectives and interpretations of these hunter-gatherers and how they interacted with each other, the pueblos in southeastern New Mexico, the mobile groups in northern Mexico, and newcomers from the northern plains such as the Apache and Comanche.

Assembling eight studies and interpretive essays to look at social boundaries from the perspective of migration, hunter-farmer interactions, subsistence, and other issues significant to anthropologists and archaeologists, The Toyah Phase of Central Texas: Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes demonstrates that these prehistoric societies were never isolated from the world around them. Rather, these societies were keenly aware of changes happening on the plains to their north, among the Caddoan groups east of them, in the Puebloan groups in what is now New Mexico, and among their neighbors to the south in Mexico.

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In the fourteenth century, a culture arose in and around the Edwards Plateau of Central Texas that represents the last prehistoric peoples before the cultural upheaval introduced by European explorers. This culture has been labeled the Toyah phase, characterized by a distinctive tool kit and a bone-tempered pottery tradition.

Spanish documents, some translated decades ago, offer glimpses of these mobile people. Archaeological excavations, some quite recent, offer other views of this culture, whose homeland covered much of Central and South Texas. For the first time in a single volume, this book brings together a number of perspectives and interpretations of these hunter-gatherers and how they interacted with each other, the pueblos in southeastern New Mexico, the mobile groups in northern Mexico, and newcomers from the northern plains such as the Apache and Comanche.

Assembling eight studies and interpretive essays to look at social boundaries from the perspective of migration, hunter-farmer interactions, subsistence, and other issues significant to anthropologists and archaeologists, The Toyah Phase of Central Texas: Late Prehistoric Economic and Social Processes demonstrates that these prehistoric societies were never isolated from the world around them. Rather, these societies were keenly aware of changes happening on the plains to their north, among the Caddoan groups east of them, in the Puebloan groups in what is now New Mexico, and among their neighbors to the south in Mexico.

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