02507cam a2200349 4500 547188216 TxAuBib 20021218120000.0 010828s1986||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 86014412 //r91 9780877190585 $35.00 0877190585 $35.00 DLC DLC TxAuBib Shafer, Harry J. Ancient Texans : rock art and lifeways along the Lower Pecos / by Harry J. Shafer ; photographs by Jim Zintgraff ; general editor Georg Zappler ; illustrations George Strickland. Austin, Tex. : Published for the Witte Museum of the San Antonio Museum Association by Texas Monthly Press, 1986. xiv, 247 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 26 cm. Includes index. Bibliography: p. 233-239. Intro ; Moon’s Band - A.D. 210 to a fictionalized chronicle, The Lower Pecos Environment - evolution of the present landscape, Pollen, nature’s tiny capsules of information, Nine Thousand Years of Occupation, the cultural sequence - Baker cave, a rich archaeological record, Bonfire shelter, an ancient slaughterhouse, Lower Pecos Lifeways, housing and daily rounds - Prehistoric diet, a case for coprolite analysis, Smoke signals, an early warning system, The Artistic Record, rock paintings, pebbles, and figurines - Recording and interpreting lower Pecos pictographs, methods and problems, Painted pebbles, styles and chronology, The red monochrome style and late pictographs, the art of newcomers to the lower Pecos, The Rock Art of Africa and Australis, the imagery of surviving hunter-gatherers - Bushman art, a preoccupation with transformation, Cave art of Australian desert aborigines, a code to survival, Shamanism, the Ecstatic Experience, and Lower Pecos Art, reflections on some transcultural phenomena ; Epilogue, losing a legacy, Appendix, archaeologists of the lower canyons, a history of discovery, Bibliography, Art credits, Index. None. 20021218. Indians of North America Texas Antiquities. Indians of North America Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex) Antiquities. Rock paintings Texas. Petroglyphs Texas. Pecos River Valley (N.M. and Tex) Antiquities. Texas Antiquities. Zappler, Georg. Witte Memorial Museum. TXCKT