Pioneering Archaeology in the Texas Coastal Bend
The Pape-Tunnell Collection
978-1-62349-274-8 Hardcover (Printed Case)
6.12 x 9.25 x 0 in
384 pp. 136 color photos. 10 halftones. 8 maps. Chart. Bib. Index.
Pub Date: 05/05/2015
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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.
Gulf Coast Books, sponsored by Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi
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