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He reshaped his entire mode of life around the capabilities of the horse. He stripped himself of all identification with a permanent home and became a full-fledged Nomad who, with his herds, followed the seasonal grasses with scant regard for distance. His dwelling had become a collapsible tent, his hearth could be anywhere. Here was total adjustment to the horse as the pivotal fact of life. Without such an adjustment there could not have been the rapid burgeoning of a society as complex, as substantially self-sufficient and as mobile as that of the horsemen of the plains. How could such a society have come into being so quickly? The answer lies not in archeology, but in analogy in the convincing similarity of the swift and revolutionary transformation of the North American Plains Indians after they acquired the horse. And it took only a couple of moments on the crawling clock of social evolution. The spread of riding, the perfection of it, created a society far more complex than that of the isolated tribes of the Plains. In this region of Indians dog-traction there still remains a very important problem as to how much of the older dog culture was incorporated in the more new horse-complex. When the first Plains Indians saw the horse they called it "old dog". The only factor that can be applied to both the dog and horse culture suggests that the care and handling of dogs and horses have a pattern of similar care for an animal of importance to the tribe. 78
Index to the proceedings of the regional archeological symposium including separate lists by subject, title, author, and volume along with subject categories, a map of regions, and Texas county abbreviations.
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Robertson, Pinky.Transactions of the Regional Archeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas: 2011,
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2012;
Midland, Texas.
(https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1661492/m1/84/:
accessed July 16, 2024),
University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu;
crediting Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies.