The Toyah phase of central Texas
Subtitle: late prehistoric economic and social processes
By: edited by Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Douglas K. Boyd
Contributors: Society for American Archaeology. Meeting
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Texas A&M University anthropology series -- no. 16; Texas A & M University anthropology series -- no. 16.
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9781603446907; 9781603447553
Subjects: Material culture; Ethnic identity; Toyah culture; Indians of North America; Antiquities; Congresses; Prehistoric Antiquities; History
Description: 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.--Amazon.com.
Notes: "This volume contains eight chapters and a peer review. Most were first presented in a symposium at the 72nd annual meeting of the Society of American Archaeology in Austin."--ECIP chapter 1.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The Toyah phase in Texas: an introduction and retrospective / Nancy A. Kenmotsu and Douglas K. Boyd; title: The Toyah phase and the ethnohistorical record: a case for population aggregation / Nancy A. Kenmotsu and John W. Arnn III; title: Defining hunter-gatherer sociocultural identity and interaction at a regional scale: the Toyah/Tejas social field / John W. Arnn III; title: The role of exotic materials in Toyah assemblages in a late prehistoric economic and social system / Karl W. Kibler; title: Reconsidering the role of bison in the terminal late prehistoric (Toyah) period in Texas / Raymond Mauldin, Jennifer Thompson, and Leonard Kemp; title: Bone processing and subsistence stress in late prehistoric south Texas / Zackary I. Gilmore; title: What is northern Toyah phase?: the Toyah phenomenon on the Texas southern plains / Douglas K. Boyd; title: Plains-Pueblo interaction: a view from the "middle" / John D. Speth and Khori Newlander; title: Toyah: reflections on evolving perceptions / Elton R. Prewitt.