Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend: The Pape-Tunnell Collection (Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi)
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| Rating | : | 4.81 (865 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1623492742 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-01 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
A lifelong natural history enthusiast and collector, Pape met and married Lucile H. 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. When Harold F. Tunnell, a widow with three young sons. 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.. 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. Pape moved to Gregory, Texas, in 1927, he quickly became fascinated by the wealth of Native American artifacts along the near
This is a must have. There is so much here in this book that explains the early days in the Coastal Bend. It is great having someone that has some first hand knowledge of the early days take us through it all. This book should be on the desk of every person who loves Corpus Christi.
“The remains of the Indian camps and villages were already vanishing under the onslaught of erosion, tides and storms along the South Texas coast. This book documents the detailed studies made by two avocational archeologists, Harold Pape and John Tunnell, to discover and describe the Indian coastal sites in the Corpus Christi/Copano Bay area. In the 1920s and 1930s, they discovered over 200 sites, which they documented with maps, sketches and written descriptions. Their important work has now been brought to publication by two desce