Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend : The Pape-Tunnell Collection Hardback
by John W., Jr. Tunnell, Jace Tunnell
Part of the Gulf Coast Books series
Hardback
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When Harold F. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the nearby shoreline of Corpus Christi Bay and what is now called Port Bay, a southern arm of the larger Copano Bay. A lifelong natural history enthusiast and collector, Pape met and married Lucile H.
Tunnell, a widow with three young sons. Before long, John W. Tunnell, Lucile's oldest son, was accompanying Pape on his field studies in surrounding areas and the wider Texas Coastal Bend. Working in the days before much of the development that now covers the region, Pape and Tunnell studied more than two hundred sites throughout the Coastal Bend, making meticulous logs, maps, and notes of their discoveries. John W. (Wes) Tunnell Jr. and Jace Tunnell have organized and documented their family collection and present it, along with brief biographies of the two collectors, as a survey of the state of knowledge in the late 1920s and 1930s, as well as a tribute to these two important early researchers and their body of work.
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 146 colour photographs, 8 maps, chart
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2015
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- ISBN:9781623492748
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:256 pages, 146 colour photographs, 8 maps, chart
- Publisher:Texas A & M University Press
- Publication Date:30/06/2015
- Category:
- ISBN:9781623492748
