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Author Tunnell, John W., Jr., author.

Title Pioneering archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend : the Pape-Tunnell collection / John W. Tunnell Jr. and Jace W. Tunnell ; with a foreword by Thomas R. Hester and contributions from Harold F. Pape, John W. Tunnell Sr., and Thomas R. Hester.

Publication Info. College Station : Texas A&M University Press, [2015]
©2015

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Edition First edition.
Description 1 online resource.
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Gulf Coast books ; number twenty-six
Gulf Coast books ; no. 26.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents An overview of the prehistory of the Texas Coastal Bend -- Geography and geology -- Harold Frederick Pape -- John Wesley Tunnell -- The Pape-Tunnell collection -- Field-site visits -- Campsites -- Then and now, 1930s-2000s -- Epilogue -- Appendix A: Field sites and campsites -- Appendix B: Campsites -- Appendix C: Letter to the editor, Coastal Bend medicine, Nueces County Medical Society, September/October 2000.
Summary 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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Subject Pape, Harold F., 1890-1952.
Pape, Harold F., 1890-1952.
Tunnell, John W., Sr., 1914-1999.
Tunnell, John W., Sr., 1914-1999.
Indians of North America -- Texas -- Coastal Bend -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America.
Texas -- Coastal Bend.
Antiquities.
Coastal Bend (Tex.) -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting.
Indians of North America -- Antiquities -- Collectors and collecting.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Tunnell, Jace W., 1974- author.
Hester, Thomas R., writer of supplementary textual content, author.
Other Form: Print version: Tunnell, John W., Jr., author. Pioneering archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend. First edition 9781623492748 (DLC) 2014042779 (OCoLC)898066543
ISBN 9781623492755 electronic book
1623492750 electronic book
9781623492748
1623492742