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The first comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial era.

Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation.

The first modern, well-researched history of the Karankawa from prehistoric times until their extinction in the nineteenth century.

A comprehensive study of the history and archaeology of a Spanish colonial mission in south Texas.

An exploration of Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records.

This book offers the first comprehensive study of a little-known aspect of Clovis culture--stone blade technology.

The most extensive Comanche word list compiled before the establishment of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation in 1867.

This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas.

This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of the little-known prehistoric peoples who inhabited the Northeastern Trans-Pecos region.

Leading U.S. and Mexican scholars investigate the groundbreaking transition from foraging to farming in the North American Southwest.

This comprehensive site report, with detailed information on artifacts and stratigraphy, provides baseline archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo Leon in northern Mexico.

In this book, Alex D. Krieger correlates the accounts in two primary sources with his own extensive knowledge of the geography, archaeology, and anthropology of southern Texas and northern Mexico to plot out stage by stage the most probable route of the 2

The first detailed archival study of the indigenous populations of the early historic period in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas and Mexico. Certain to become a standard reference in its field, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples. Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martn Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that inhabited the area in the sixteenth through the eighteenth centuries. Depending on available information, he reconstructs something of their history, geographical range and migrations, demography, language, and culture. He also offers general information on various unnamed groups of indigenous people, their lifeways, and on the relations between the them and the colonial Spanish missions in the region. ';The scholarship is nothing short of superb... Salinas has produced the definitive work on the area, which has been needed for years.' Rudolph C. Troike, Professor, Department of English, University of Arizona