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| The Ceremonial Cave exhibit was created by TBH Editor Susan Dial and TARL Director Darrell Creel. Sections are adapted in part from Ceremonial Cave: An Overview of Investigations and Contents by Creel and Caves of the Upper Gila and Hueco Areas in New Mexico and Texas by C.B. Cosgrove. TBH Web Developer Heather Smith developed the exhibit for the web. X-ray computed tomography density maps of the hafted dart points were made at the High-Resolution X-ray Computed Tomography Facility in the Department of Geological Sciences in the Jackson School of Geosciences, University of Texas at Austin. TARL archeologist Ken Brown examined the hafted darts and provided insights on their construction. Steven LeBlanc and Viva Fisher of the Peabody Museum at Harvard University facilitated the loan of artifacts from that institution for radiocarbon dating and CT scanning and provided additional imagery for use on this site. The exhibit was funded through donations from the Texas Archeological Society, the Council of Texas Archeologists, Friends of TARL, and individual TBH supporters. When this exhibit was initially created in 2001, Darrell Creel was the Director of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory and Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin. Most of his research has been focused on the prehistoric Mimbres culture in southwestern New Mexico and the Caddo peoples of eastern Texas and includes use of ceramic compositional analysis to address questions of exchange, interaction, and migration, and use of near surface geophysical sensing technologies in archeological research. Creel received his Ph.D from the University of Arizona. |
 Darrell Creel, left, working with University of Texas students during field work in east Texas  . |
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