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The first modern, well-researched history of the Karankawa from prehistoric times until their extinction in the nineteenth century

Table of Contents

• Foreword by Thomas R. Hester
• Preface
• 1. Who Were the Karankawas?
• 2. The Karankawan Environment
• 3. The Archaeological Exploration of Karankawan Adaptation
• 4. Archaeological Evidence for Prehistoric Occupation of Shoreline Fishing Camps
• 5. Karankawan Occupation of the Coastal Prairie Environment
• 6. Reconstructing Prehistoric Karankawan Adaptive Patterns
• 7. Karankawan Adaptive Patterns during the Colonial Era
• 8. The Impacts of European Colonization: Continuity and Change in Karankawan Lifeways
• 9. The Karankawas on the Spanish Colonial Frontier: Seven Decades of Hostilities and the Resolution of Conflict
• 10. The Mission as an Ecological Resource
• 11. The Long-Term Ecological Roots of Adaptive Change
• Appendix A: Defining the Geographical and Chronological Parameters of the Rockport Phase through Ceramic Analysis
• Appendix B: Methods of Seasonality Analysis
• References Cited
• Index

About the Author

Robert A. Ricklis is a Research Fellow with the University of Texas at Austin and president of a private archaeological consulting firm in Corpus Christi.

Reviews

"Ricklis' findings should permanently alter how Karankawa Indians are portrayed in general treatments of Texas history." Lawrence E. Aten, author of Indians of the Upper Texas Coast