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The Llano Uplift Archeological Society (LUAS) meeting will be September 8, 2010 at 7:00pm at The LCRA Nightengale Archaeological Center (NAC) in Kingsland.

This month’s presentation by Dr. Steve Black will be about Wickiups, Ovens, and Shelters: Ongoing Research on Shumla Bend of the lower Pecos River.

The Lower Pecos Canyonlands of southwest Texas are renown for the many dry rockshelters and caves whose walls are spectacularly adorned with pictographs many dating 3,000-5,000 years ago. The rock art is preserved in the deeply incised limestone canyons carved out by the Pecos, Rio Grande, and Devils Rivers and their tributaries along the Texas-Mexico border between Del Rio and Langtry. The dry shelters also preserve and unparalleled material record of daily life of generations of Native Americans dating-basketry, weapons, food remains and much more. The Few Texans realize that the Lower Pecos Canyonlands region ranks as a world-class archaeological area with some of the oldest rock art known in North America and one of the best preserved archaeological records of over 10,000 years of hunter-gatherer life.

Ongoing research by archaeologists and students from Texas State University is concentrating on the side canyons and uplands overlooking the lower stretches of the Pecos River. The illustrated talk with highlight new research and the high and low tech research methods that modern archaeologists use.

Dr. Steve Black is and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Texas State University. He is also the TxState editor of TexasBeyondHistory.net, the virtual museum of Texas’ cultural heritage. Since 1975 black has carried out archeological research in Texas, New Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and Ecuador. Map to NAC at www.texasluas.org/meetings.html. LUAS meetings are open to the public at no charge.