Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, Volume 66, 1995: Searching Inside

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... programs continue to prepare more and more students to become academic archeologists despite the fact... are CRM-related. To succeed in the CRM world, archeological students need training and exposure to such aspects... as though an academically-oriented education will best serve their students. While UT-Austin and other... universities have organized research branches (such as TARL) that provide some students with employment... (Blanton 1995). I find it fascinating and encouraging that so many undergraduate and graduate students take

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... Tech University, Southern Methodist University (SMU), the University of North Texas (UNT), UTSA

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... his start with university contract outfits at SMU and UNT, then worked for the U.S. Forest Service

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... to Texas archeology by training undergraduate and graduate students and by participating directly... involve graduate students (and sometimes undergraduates) in their research projects. This is directly... archeology. Most advanced students are encouraged to work toward their mentor's goals in other areas... friend and colleague, Grant Hall. As is typical of university field schools, most of the students... on an avocational basis. I know of a half dozen of Grant's former field school students who are employed in CRM

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... for cooking some superabundant plant food during one particular season). Based on ethnographic evidence... is yet another possible plant food that was oven roasted. Although their contemporaneity has been... food resources (including but not limited to all of the plants listed in Table 12). Boyd et al.... (1994:264-266) provide a detailed discussion of the various plants that could have been significant food... sufficiently abundant and nutritious to have been utilized intensively as food resources by Palo Duro peoples

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... types of features. o = recovered only in storage pits; may be evidence of grass lining rather than food... represent food resources, the taxa that are most abundant (in terms of the quantity of charred seeds from...) are more likely to have been used for food. Of all of the taxa listed, however, only the mesquite beans... and shin oak acorns have been found in archeological contexts that strongly suggest they were used for food..., is evidence that goosefoot was being processed as food. While goosefoot was very abundant in one storage pit

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... more while "teaching" discussion sections than I did from most of my professors. The students asked... of students (Grant Hall was the other) was instrumental. The Bowditch Professor Emeritus of Central American... not by forest veil, but by archeological tradition. After my final graduation, I taught and advised students

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... were important food resources throughout the region. Fish were a minor food resource in the inland... subregion, and a major food resource on the coastal margin. The use of fish at coastal margin sites... not be overestimated, as Rangia meat is not a rich food material. A consumption of hundreds of shellfish would

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... are consistently present in Palo Duro sites, and there is some evidence that they may have been utilized as food... that they were an important food resource. They certainly were never used by Palo Duro peoples to the extent... an important food for peoples in the Colorado and Concho river valleys, but there is no such evidence

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... retirement in 1990), Kathleen trained a generation of students, both in the classroom and in the field. Her... students, a number of whom were inspired to follow her example to successful careers in archeology

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..., drought, or food shortage cannot be assessed, but long-term population trends can be studied. The relative... of the bow and arrow, (3) adaptation to a greater range of food resources, and 4) migration of people... of marine food resources. According to Cabeza de Vaca \1 ''

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... well-defined in this region, but possibilities include cooking, food storage, and water storage. The common... occurrence of sherds with drilled repair holes implies that much of the pottery may have been used for food... as clayballs. The probable function of clayballs was for roasting of food materials, although heat-treatment

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... as food resources by Palo Duro peoples. The animal bones recovered from various sites, summarized in Table... animal recognized as having been a significant food resource while bison is poorly represented. A wide... variety of other small animals are present, but their relative importance as food resources is

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... that may have been utilized for food include skunks, rabbits, and turtles, while snake, prairie dog... been food resources, and juniper and cottonwood/willow were used as firewood. In addition, charred oak... of shin oak (Quercus havardii) as a food resource. The number of analyzed pollen and flotation samples

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... oak acorns for food is not well documented ethnographically, its use by prehistoric peoples... Panhandle Plains utilized mesquite beans as food (Carlson and Jones 1940:530; Galvin 1970:30-31; Vestal..., bison hunting and use of bison as a food resource are poorly documented. That bison were present during

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... major ethnographic observations need to be considered: (1) bulk food storage generally occurs... lean season when most food resources are scarce. Based on these observations, one possible scenario... two distinct activity areas (a lithic work area and a food storage/processing area) based

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... and resource procurement task groups (see Binford 1980). When a food source failed, greater emphasis could... to harvest and store food for late winter and early spring and to prepare for fall hunting [Welch 1991:78, 81... for most of the year because it offered the most abundant and predictable food resources and the widest

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... to that rule. One obsidian Clovis point occurs on the High Plains at Blackwater Locality No. I (the Clovis type

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... the most useful evidence for interpreting the plants that were or may have been used as food resources...). The question, then, is which plants were used as food and which plants may have been burned accidentally

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... of scale. Brown (1991:123) suggests that considerable energy was invested in food production... and in the number of upland sites presumably devoted to exploitation of food resources. Such a conjunction of events