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    • Prehistoric skeletal remains from the Texas coast

    • Prehistoric skeletal remains from the Texas coast

    • Woodbury, George, 1902-1973

    • Indians of North America; Ethnoarchaeology; Anthropology, Prehistoric; Human remains (Archaeology)

    • (22,747kb pdf) An analysis of skeletal remains found in Texas in the coastal region, examining specifically the skulls, arms, and legs. Clues pertaining to culture are extrapolated from composition and structure of the bones.
    • Cochise culture

    • Cochise culture

    • Sayles, E. B. (Edwin Booth), 1892-1977

    • Cochise culture; Excavations (Archaeology); Paleo-Indians; Indians of North America; Antiquities

    • 64,486kb pdf) Excavations from the early-to-mid 1930's in southeastern Arizona, southwestern New Mexico and northern Mexico resulted in the classification of a new culture, the Cochise culture.
    • Salt Plain seed jar

    • Salt Plain seed jar

    • Unknown

    • Hohokam

    • Small ovoid jar of Salt Plan, a seed jar form with a restricted opening and no neck. Smoothly finished, fired to a reddish brown, with two large fire clouds on one side. Wear on base and at rim, reveals sand temper. A few large flakes of gold...
    • B-118

    • B-118

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Small rattle in the shape of a human figure. The creamy surface is polished and decorated with black paint. The overall shape is ovoid. Arms are appliqued, and the facial features are built up with the clay, with holes punched in clay for eyes,...
    • B-123

    • B-123

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Small Maricopa Black-on-cream shoe shaped vessel. Hollow, generally ovoid, with a horse-shoe shaped coil added to the bottom of the shoe to form the heel. Exterior is light brown to buff colored; geometric decorations, executed in dark brown...
    • B-161

    • B-161

    • Unknown

    • Piipaash

    • Very large Maricopa Black-on-cream bowl, deep, ovoid with an everted rim. Surface has a thin coating or wash which lightens the surface color. Exterior is polished and smooth but not even. Complex vertically banded design has hooked triangles,...

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