What is the difference between the Pecos River and Red Linear styles and what do those differences mean?
The concept of cultural areas is often a thorn in the side of archeological interpretation because the idea of boundaries seems somehow impermeable and fixed. Territoriality goes hand in hand with societal complexity so we end up with entities like the State of Texas, Val Verde County, the San Antonio ETJ, the Austin Independent School District, Seminole Canyon State Historic Park and my house lot, all of which have clearly defined boundaries. In prehistory (and during wars in Europe and Africa), cultural boundaries are constantly changing over time and often didn’t really constitute a boundary at all. Theoretically, a cultural zone should reflect the distribution of like-minded people who participate in a common economic, technological, ideological, and organizational system, and often with genetic ties, i.e. the Caddo, the Incas, the Plains Indians, and so on. The modern equivalent might be ethnicity although a number of noted scholars claim that ethnicity can not be detected in preh
