The latest information and exhibits on Texas Beyond History, the virtual museum of Texas' cultural heritage. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net Fri, 3 March 2009 This latest installment of the multi-year Prehistoric Texas project includes 5 feature exhibits on major sites such as Mitchell Ridge, McFaddin Beach, and Fort St. Louis, plus dozens of "mini" exhibits, Natural Resource galleries, and K-12 resources. All are focused on the archeology and ethnohistory of the Texas coastal region that was home to hunting and gathering peoples for thousands of years and, beginning in the early 1500s, the scene of earliest encounters with European explorers. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/coast/index.html Fri, 17 October 2008 This new 9-section exhibit employs many interactive features to explore La Salle's 17th-century shipwreck off the Texas coast and the extraordinary materials recovered, including the "mystery chest" and the remains of a French sailor. Excavations inside the cofferdam as well as in the conservation laboratory revealed a treasure-trove of information about the French colonization of North America. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/belle/index.html Thur, 21 August 2008 This new 7-section exhibit describes hunting and gathering peoples who repeatedly visited this rockshelter and terrace site near the mouth of the Pecos River in the Lower Pecos Canyonlands for at least 10,000 years. Alternating layers of flood deposits and cultural debris at Arenosa Shelter were more than 42 feet thick, creating a textbook example of archeological and geological stratification. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/arenosa/index.html Wed, 23 January 2008 description goes here http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/trans-p/index.html Wed, 23 January 2008 This new 12-section exhibit presents a story beginning around 800 years ago when village life was established at the river juncture the Spanish named La Junta de los Rios, an oasis in the Chihuahuan Desert. Throughout its long history La Junta has been a cultural junction on the southeastern frontier of the American Southwest, a crossroads for farmers and hunter-gatherers, traders and raiders, and Spanish colonists and native peoples. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/junta/index.html Wed, 23 January 2008 description goes here http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/hueco/index.html Wed, 23 January 2008 description goes here http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/paso/index.html Wed, 23 January 2008 description goes here http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/madera/index.html Wed, 23 January 2008 description goes here http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/pilote/index.html Mon, 20 August June 2007 This new 10-section exhibit presents a new twist on the story of Texas native peoples given to us by Spaniard Cabeza de Vaca and his companions. Shipwrecked on the Texas Gulf Coast in 1528, their seven-year ordeal provided fascinating, albeit enigmatic, glimpses of native lifeways and the various odd-sounding foods they extracted from often harsh landscapes. Anthropologist and archeologist Alston V. Thoms of Texas A&M University draws on studies of traditional foods and cooking technologies to infer what the various unidentified roots, tubers, nuts, fruits, and fish may have been, how they were prepared, and much more. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cabeza-cooking/index.html Thur, 14 June 2007 In this new 10-section exhibit on the 18th-century capital of Spanish Texas, learn how historians, archeologists, and anthropologists are unraveling the still-unfolding story of Los Adaes. Special interactive sections allow for a detailed look at historic maps of Los Adaes and Spanish Texas, the excavation, artifacts recovered, and the people of Los Adaes. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/adaes/index.html Wed, 2 May 2007 The Kids Section has been rewired and reworked! Check out the new awesome animations and activities including a entirely new section that teaches kids how to use TexasBeyondHistory.net to conduct research and write those research-papers like the pros! http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/kids/index.html Fri, 19 Jan 2007 Check out the new 6-section exhibit on the McKinney Roughs site, a remarkably well-preserved site that was frequented by prehistoric campers in the final stages of the Archaic period http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/mckinney/index.html Mon, 18 Sept 2006 This latest installment of the multi-year Prehistoric Texas project includes 12 feature exhibits on sites such as Richard Beene and Morhiss Mounds, plus 24 "mini" exhibits, Natural Resource galleries, and K-12 resources. All arefocused on the archeology of the savannas and woodlands of the South Texas Plains that were home to hunting and gathering peoples who maintained resilient and highly successful cultural traditions for thoudands of years. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/st-plains/index.html Wed, 5 Apr 2006 A look at the South Texas Plains through the eyes of Spanish explorer Cabeza de Vaca. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/cabeza-south/cdv_mainpage.html Mon, 27 Feb 2006 This gallery is intended as a teaching and research tool for those who seek to understand how ancient peoples used the plants typical of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands. http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/pecos/ethnobot.html Thu, 2 Feb 2006 Check out the new 8-section exhibit on the J.B. White site, a small campsite near Cameron in Milam County that preserves a wealth of information about Late Prehistoric peoples... http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/jbwhite/index.html