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is a new online exhibit on Texas Beyond
History, the virtual museum of Texas'
cultural heritage, created by the Texas
Archeological Research Laboratory at the
University of Texas, Austin, in partnership
with 14 other organizations. This is
the second regional presentation to appear
in the "Prehistoric Texas" initiative.
Dozens of collaborators from throughout
the state contributed their time, expertise,
and image resources to this undertaking.
Aimed at diverse audiences from scholars
to school children, the exhibit set is substantive,
the largest yet created on TBH,
and features stories, illustrations, photographs,
interactive maps, learning activities,
lesson plans, and documents.
The South Texas Plains region is that
portion of southern Texas that extends
southward from the Balcones Escarpment
to just inland from the coast, eastward to
the Guadalupe River Valley, and westward
to the Rio Grande and into adjacent
northeastern Mexico. It is an ecologically
diverse region that shows evidence of
long-term cultural patterns and unique
traditions created by more than 500 generations
of hunters and gatherers. Native
peoples came to the region by at least
13,500 years ago (11,500 B.C.); linguistic
evidence suggests that some language
groups never left, and that direct descendants
of the region's first peoples were
those encountered in the region by the
Spanish intruders beginning in the 1530s
with Cabeza de Vaca, Texas' first ethnographer.
Archeological evidence is consistent with this inferred continuity and
includes evidence of established territories
(dedicated cemeteries) as early as
5,000 B.C.
The new educational exhibits summarize
and exemplify the archeological
and ethnohistorical record of the native
peoples of the region, from more than
13,300 years ago in Paleoindian times
to Early Historic times, and share some
of the scholarly information and cultural
treasures with the wider world.
Key elements: major exhibits on
Prehistory, Native Peoples, Artistic Expression,
Nature's Harvest, Patterns of
the Past, Kids Activities, and Teaching
Resources, as well as separate site exhibits
on: Richard Beene, Espiritu Santo, Morhiss
Mound, Hinojosa, Choke Canyon,
and Gateway Missions.
By the numbers: 437 MB of online
content, 128 substantive web pages, 845
unique images, and 78 PDF documents.
Underwritten by: Grants and donations
from the National Endowment
for the Humanities, the Texas Historical
Commission (Texas Preservation Trust
Fund), private foundations, archeological
organizations, the College of Liberal
Arts (UT Austin), and private citizens.
Check out the archeology web site at:
ww. texasbeyondhistory. net/st-plains.
Photo: 41WB56-C16, Texas Archeological
Research Laboratory, The University of
Texas at Austin.
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