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Culture Chronology in Texas*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Robert L. Stephenson
Robert L. Stephenson*
Affiliation:
River Basin Surveys, 601 E. 19th St., Austin, Texas
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This brief statement is presented as a summary of the archaeological sequences as they have been postulated to date in the Texas area. It is a compilation of the results of investigations by.several dozen archaeologists who have worked in the area during the past quarter century or more. Necessarily it is brief and only a bare minimum of description of each cultural group has been included. Also, the sequential alignments are for the most part tentative. Only in rare instances has extensive field work established definitely the positions suggested. The McKern system of culture designation has been used to indicate groups and subdivisions of groups throughout, although the term aspect tends to have more of a temporal than spatial implication.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 16 , Issue 2 , October 1950 , pp. 151 - 157
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1950

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Footnotes

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Permission of the Smithsonian Institution for publication of this article has been kindly granted the writer by Dr. Frank H. H. Roberts, Jr., who originally suggested its compilation.

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