University of Texas at Austin
College of Liberal ArtsCredits and Sources
Most of this exhibit was adapted from Tom O'Laughlin's recent article, "Long Lessons and Big Surprises: Firecracker Pueblo" (full citation below), and appears courtesy of the Archaeological Society of New Mexico. Additional sections were written by Tom O'Laughlin and Steve Black. All of the photographs appear courtesy of O'Laughlin.
The mural by George Nelson is based on O'Laughlin's archeological data from Firecracker Pueblo and appears courtesy of the artist and the Institute of Texan Cultures. The 20-x-24-foot original is on display at the Institute in San Antonio.
Links
Madera Quemada exhibit on TBH. Jornada Mogollon pueblo not far north of Firecracker.
www.epas.com
Website of the El Paso Archaeological Society, one of the oldest learned
societies in Texas, and co-sponsor of the Firecracker investigations.
Videos and Children's Book
Made in Texas, Captured Moments #17, The Rock Art of Texas. Texas Parks and Wildlife production, 1987, featuring the 1986 TAS field school.
Condia-Williams, Charlotte
1994 Firecracker Pueblo. Sunrise Publications, Hillsboro, New Mexico.
[A children's book and companion video with stories that
bring the village to life. Available through Wilderness Park Museum, 4301
Transmountain Road, El Paso, TX 79924 or Sunrise Publications, PO Box
186, Hillsboro, NM 88042. Online version as PDF]
Print Sources
Many interesting articles related to the Jornada Mogollon can be found in The Artifact, a journal published by the El Paso Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Regional Archaeological Symposium for Southeastern New Mexico and Western Texas, a publication of annual meetings of the Southwestern Federation of Archaeological Societies, the Bulletin of The Texas Archeological Society, and reports of the Jornada Mogollon Conferences and Mogollon Conferences by various publishers.
Bentley, Mark T.
1981 El Paso's Prehistoric Past. Published by the author. El Paso.
C. B. Cosgrove
1947 Caves of the Upper Gila and Hueco Areas in New Mexico and Texas.
Papers of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology 24, Harvard
University. Cambridge.
Florence H. Ellis and Laurens Hammack
1968 The Inner Sanctum of Feather Cave, A Mogollon Sun and Earth Shrine
Linking Mexico and the Southwest. American Antiquity 33(1):25-44.
[Discusses caves that include perishable Pueblo period artifacts.]
Human Systems Research
1973 Technical Manual: 1973 Survey of the Tularosa Basin, the Research Design.
Human Systems Research. Albuquerque.
[Good general background information and cultural ecology
of area just north of the Hueco Bolson.]
Donald J. Lehmer
1948 The Jornada Branch of the Mogollon. Social Science Bulletin
No. 17. The University of Arizona.
1958 A Review of Trans-Pecos Texas Archeology. Bulletin
of The Texas Archeological Society 29 (1):109-144.
[Donald Lehmer's original 1948 definition of the Jornada
Mogollon and the later review article are still important references.]
LeBlanc, Steven A. and Michael E. Whalen
1979 An Archaeological Synthesis of Southcentral and Southwestern New
Mexico. Office of Contract Archaeology, The University of New Mexico.
Albuquerque.
MacNeish, Richard S., editor
1993 Preliminary Investigations of the Archaic in the Region of Las
Cruces, New Mexico. Historic and Natural Resources Report 9, Directorate
of Environment, Fort Bliss. El Paso.
Miller, Myles R. and Tim B. Graves
2009 Madera Quemada Pueblo: Archaeological Investigations of a 14th Century Jornada Mogollon Pueblo. GMI Report 679EP, Geo-Marine, Inc., Plano, Texas, and Fort Bliss Cultural Resources Report 03-12, Fort Bliss Environmental Division, Fort Bliss Garrison Command, Fort Bliss, Texas.
O'Laughlin, Thomas C.
2001 Long Lessons and Big Surprises: Firecracker Pueblo. In: Following
Through: Papers in Honor of Phyllis S. Davis, edited by Regge N. Wiseman,
T. C. O'Laughlin, and Cordelia T. Snow, pp. 115-131. Archaeological Society
of New Mexico: 27.
[Available through the Archaeological Society of New Mexico, PO Box 3485,
Albuquerque, NM 87190-3485.]
Stuart, David E. and Rory P. Gauthier
1981 Prehistoric New Mexico: Background for Survey. Historic Preservation
Bureau. Santa Fe.
Whalen, Michael E.
1981 Cultural-Ecological Aspects of the Pithouse-to-Pueblo Transition
in a Portion of the Southwest. American Antiquity 46(1):75-92.