Middle Ceramic Period (A.D. 1250 to A.D. 1500) Bibliography

Baerreis, David A., and Reid A. Bryson
1966 Dating the Panhandle Aspect Cultures.  Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 14:105-116.

Baker, Ele M., and Jewel A. Baker
2000 Archaeological Excavations of Antelope Creek Ruins and Alibates Ruins, Panhandle Aspect, 1938-1941.  Panhandle Archeological Society, Publication No. 8.  Amarillo, Texas.

Bandy, Phillip
1976 Lithic Technology: A Reconstruction of a Northern Texas Panhandle Archaeological Assemblage.  Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Texas Tech University, Lubbock.

Baugh, Timothy G.
1994 Holocene Adaptations in the Southern High Plains.  In Plains Indians, A.D. 500-1500, edited by Karl H. Schlesier, pp. 264-289.  University of Oklahoma Press, Norman.

Bell, Robert E., and Robert L. Brooks
2001 Plains Village Tradition: Southern.  In Handbook of North American Indians: Plains Volume 13, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, pp. 207-233.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

Bement, Leland C., and Scott D. Brosowske
2001 Streams in No Man’s Land: A Cultural Resource Survey in Beaver and Texas Counties, Oklahoma.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Archeological Resource Survey Report No. 43.  University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Bevitt, C. Tod
1999 Life on the High Plains Border: Archeological Investigation of Three Late Prehistoric Habitation Sites in Southwest Kansas.  Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Kansas.

Brooks, Robert L.
1987 The Arthur Site: Settlement and Subsistence Structure at a Washita River Phase Village.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Studies in Oklahoma’s Past No. 15.  University of Oklahoma, Norman.

1989 Village Farming Societies.  In From Clovis to Comanchero: Archeological Overview of the Southern Great Plains, by Jack L. Hofman, Robert L. Brooks, Joe S. Hays, Douglas W. Owsley, Richard L. Jantz, Murray K. Marks, and Mary H. Manhein, pp. 71-90.  Arkansas Archeological Survey, Research Series No. 35.  University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.

1994 Variability in Southern Plains Cultural Complexes: Archaeological Investigations at the Lonker Site in the Oklahoma Panhandle.  Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 43:1-27.

1994 Warfare on the Southern Plains.  In Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health, and Subsistence, edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz, pp. 317-323.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C.

2004 From Stone Slab Architecture to Abandonment, the Antelope Creek Phase: A Revisionist View of the Antelope Creek Phase.  In The Prehistory of Texas, edited by Timothy K. Perttula, pp. 331-344.  Texas A&M University Press, College Station.

Brosowske, Scott D.
2002 What Exactly is the Zimms Complex? A Review and Synthesis of Architectural and Assemblage Traits.  Oklahoma Archeology: Journal of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 50(4):20-39.

2004 The Emergence of Regional Trade Centers: The Spatial Distribution of Obsidian at Middle Ceramic Settlements of the Southern High Plains.  Council of Texas Archaeologists Newsletter 28 (2):16-28.

2005 The Evolution of Exchange in Small Scale Societies of the Southern High Plains.  Unpublished Ph.D dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Brosowske, Scott D., and C. Tod Bevitt
2006 Looking South: The Middle Ceramic Period in Southern Kansas and Beyond.  In Kansas Archaeology, edited by Robert Hoard and Will Banks, pp. 180-205. University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.

Campbell, Robert G.
1976 The Panhandle Aspect of the Chaquaqua Plateau.  Texas Tech University, Graduate Studies 11.  Lubbock, Texas.

Couzzourt, Jim, and Beverly A. Schmidt-Couzzourt
1996 The 1969 TAS Field School at Blue Creek, Moore County in the Texas Panhandle.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 67:1-113.

Crabb, Martha
1968 Some Puebloan Trade Pottery from Panhandle Aspect Sites.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 38:83-89.

Dean, Glenna
1986 The Archeobotany of Landergin Mesa.  Manuscript on file, Office of the State Archaeologist, Texas Historical Commission, Austin.

DeMarcay, Gary B.
1986 Vertebrate Fauna from Landergin Mesa: An Antelope Creek Period Village Site.  Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University, College Station.

Drass, Richard R.
1997 Culture Change on the Eastern Margins of the Southern Plains.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Studies in Oklahoma’s Past No. 19.  University of Oklahoma, Norman.

1998 The Southern Plains Villagers.  In Archaeology of the Great Plains, edited by W. Raymond Wood, pp. 415-455.  University of Kansas Press, Lawrence.

Drass, Richard R., and Christopher L. Turner
1989 An Archaeological Reconnaissance of the Wolf Creek Drainage Basin, Ellis County, Oklahoma.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Archeological Resource Survey Report No. 35. University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Duffield, Lathel F.
1964 Three Panhandle Aspect Sites at Sanford Reservoir, Hutchinson County, Texas.  Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological Society 35:19-81.

1970 Some Panhandle Aspect Sites in Texas: Their Vertebrates and Paleoecology.  Unpublished Ph.D. Dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, La Crosse.

Duncan, Marjorie A.
2006 Adaptation During the Antelope Creek Phase: Subsistence Strategies at the Two Sisters Site.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey Studies in Oklahoma’s Past No. 20.  The University of Oklahoma, Norman.

Etchieson, G. Meeks
1981 Archaeological Survey at Lake Meredith Recreation Area, Moore and Potter Counties, Texas.  U.S. Department of the Interior, Water and Power Resources Service, Southwest Region.  Amarillo, Texas.

Eyerly, T. L.
1907a The Buried City of the Panhandle.  In The Student, pp. 29-36.  Bulletin of the Canadian Academy, Canadian, Texas.

1907b The Buried City of the Panhandle.  The Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science 21:219-228.

1912 The Buried City of the Panhandle.  The Archaeological Bulletin 3:1-5.

Flynn, Peggy
1984 An Analysis of the 1973 Test Excavations at the Zimms Site (34RM72), Western Oklahoma.  In Archeology of the Mixed Grass Prairie Phase I: Quartermaster Creek, edited by Timothy G. Baugh, pp. 215-290.  Archeological Resource Survey Report No. 20.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey, Norman.

Green, Frank E.
1986 Report on the Archaeological Salvage in the Sanford Reservoir Area.  Panhandle Archeological Society, Publication No. 4.  Amarillo, Texas.

Habicht-Mauche, Judith A., Alytia A. Levendosky, and Margaret J. Schoeninger
1994 Antelope Creek Phase Subsistence: The Bone Chemistry Evidence.  In Skeletal Biology in the Great Plains: Migration, Warfare, Health, and Subsistence, edited by Douglas W. Owsley and Richard L. Jantz, pp. 291-304.  Smithsonian Institution Press, Washington, D.C. 

Holden, W. Curry
1929 Some Explorations and Excavations in Northwest Texas.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 1:23-35.

1930 The Canadian River Valley Expedition of March 1930.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 2:21-32.

1931 Texas Tech Archeological Expedition, Summer 1930.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 3:43-52.

1932 Recent Archeological Discoveries in the Texas Panhandle.  Southwestern Social Sciences Quarterly 13:289-293.

1933 Excavations at Saddleback Ruin.  Bulletin of the Texas Archaeological and Paleontological Society 5:39-52.

Honea, Kenneth
1973 The Technology of Eastern Puebloan Pottery on the Llano Estacado.  Plains Anthropologist 18:73-88.

Howard, James N., and Donald N. Brown
1973 A Puebloid Burial from Western Oklahoma.  Oklahoma Anthropological Society Bulletin 22:207-216.

Hughes, David T.
1991 Investigations of the Buried City, Ochiltree County, Texas: With an Emphasis on the Texas Archeological Society Field Schools of 1987 and 1988.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 60:107-148.

Hughes, David, T., and A. Alicia Hughes-Jones
1987 The Courson Archeological Projects: Final 1985 and Preliminary 1986.  Innovative Publishing, Perryton, Texas.

Hughes, Jack T.
1991 Prehistoric Cultural Developments on the Texas High Plains.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 60:1-55.

Huhnke, Marie H.
2001 Form and Function: The Bone Tools from Alibates Ruin #28.  Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, Wichita State University, Kansas.

Kay County Chapter
1963 The Fred Loomis Site, A Small Group Burial near Freedom, Oklahoma.  Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 11:123-132.

Keller, John E.
1975 The Black Dog Village Site: A Panhandle Aspect Manifestation in Hutchinson County, Texas.  Texas Highway Department, Publications in Archaeology, Report No. 5.  Austin.

Krieger, Alex D.
1946 Cultural Complexes and Chronology in Northern Texas with Extension of Puebloan Dating to the Mississippi Valley.  The University of Texas Publication No. 4640.  The University of Texas Press, Austin.

Lintz, Christopher Ray
1976 The McGrath Site of the Panhandle Aspect.  Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 25:1-110.

1986 Architecture and Community Variability within the Antelope Creek Phase of the Texas Panhandle.  Oklahoma Archeological Survey Studies in Oklahoma’s Past No. 20.  The University of Oklahoma, Norman.

1986b The Historical Development of a Cultural Complex: The Basis for Understanding Architectural Misconceptions of the Antelope Creek Focus.  In Current Trends in Southern Plains Archaeology, edited by Timothy G. Baugh, pp. 111-128.  Plains Anthropologist Memoir 21, Pt 2.

1990 Landergin Mesa: 1984 Phase II Field Results.  Unpublished report prepared for the Landergin Mesa Phase II Crew Members and the Texas Historical Commission.

1991 Texas Panhandle-Pueblo Interactions from the Thirteenth through the Sixteenth Century.  In Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists, edited by Katherine A. Spielmann, pp. 89-106.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Lintz, Christopher, and Kathryn Reese-Taylor
1997 Migrations, Trade, or Replicated Ceramics: Petrographic Study of Collared Rim Sherds from the Texas Panhandle.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society 68:273-299.

Moorehead, Warren K.
1931 Archaeology of the Arkansas River Valley.  Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusettes.

Robinson, Ricky
2001 Analysis of Ground Stone from Landergin Mesa.  Unpublished M.A. thesis, Department of Anthropology, University of Texas at San Antonio.

Schneider, Fred E.
1969 The Roy Smith Site, Bv-14, Beaver County, Oklahoma.  Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 18:119-179.

Speth, John D.
1983 Bison Kills and Bone Counts: Decision Making by Ancient Hunters.  University of Chicago Press, Chicago.

1991 Some Unexplored Aspects of Mutualistic Plains-Pueblo Food Exchange.  In Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists, edited by Katherine A. Spielmann, pp. 18-35.  University of Arizona Press, Tucson.

Speth, John D. (editor)
2004 Life on the Periphery: Economic Change in Late Prehistoric Southeastern New Mexico.  University of Michigan, Museum of Anthropology, Memoir No. 37.  Ann Arbor, Michigan.

Studer, Floyd V.
n.d. Chimney Rock Ruin – No. 51: Preliminary Report.  Manuscript on file at the Panhandle-Plains Museum, Canyon, Texas.

1931a Some Notes and Observations Concerning Texas Panhandle Ruins.  In Archaeology of the Arkansas River Valley, edited by Warren K. Moorehead, pp.  131-145.  Phillips Academy.  Andover, Massachusettes.

1931b Archaeological Survey of the North Texas Panhandle.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 3:70-75.

1931c Discovering the Panhandle.  Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 7:79-94.

1934 Texas Panhandle Culture Ruin No. 55.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 6:80-96.

1939 Report on Department of Archaeology and Paleontology to the Annual Meeting of the Panhandle Plains Historical Society at Canyon, Texas, May 12, 1939.  Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 12:91-95.

1955 Archaeology of the Texas Panhandle.  Panhandle-Plains Historical Review 28:87-95.

1963 Pueblo Ruins in the Texas Panhandle.  In Panhandle Geological Society Fieldtrip Guidebook, September 1963.

Vehik, Susan C.
1986 The Effect of Trade on Resource Procurement Behavior: A Late Prehistoric Example from the Southern Plains.  In Current Trends in Southern Plains Archaeology, edited by Timothy G. Baugh, pp. 141-154.  Plains Anthropologist Memoir 21, pt 2.

1990 Late Prehistoric Plains Trade and Economic Specialization.  Plains Anthropologist 35:125-145.

2002 Conflict, Trade, and Political Development on the Southern High Plains.  American Antiquity 67:37-64.

Vehik, Susan C., and Timothy G. Baugh
1994 Prehistoric Plains Trade.  In Prehistoric Exchange Systems in North America, edited by Timothy G. Baugh and Jonathon E. Ericson, pp. 249-274.  Plenum Press, New York.

Watson, Virginia
1950 The Optima Focus of the Panhandle Aspect: Description and Analysis.  Bulletin of the Texas Archeological and Paleontological Society 21:7-68.

Wedel, Waldo W.
1959 An Introduction to Kansas Archaeology.  Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 174, Washington, D.C.

White, Ralph W.
1987 The Muncy Site in the Oklahoma Panhandle: Indian Cultural Evidence over a Long Time Span.  Bulletin of the Oklahoma Anthropological Society 36:39-103.

Zier, Christian J. and Stephen M. Kalasz
1999 Colorado Prehistory: A Context for the Arkansas River Basin.  Colorado Council of Professional Archaeologists.  Denver, Colorado.

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