Robert J Mallouf
Robert J. Mallouf served as Texas State Archaeologist (1981-1995) with the Texas Historical Commission and is a past Director of the Center for Big Bend Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Sul Ross State University (1995-2008). He received B.A. and M.A. degrees in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin and also studied at the University of California at Berkeley and the American University of Cairo, Egypt. Retired since 2008, Mallouf is a research associate of the Center for Big Bend Studies and lives with his wife Rebecca in Alpine, Texas.
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Data from pertinent regional radiocarbon assays, artifactual assemblages, and archeological constructs provide a foundation from which to explore temporal and cultural affiliations of the cairn. The burial is believed to have been placed by a nomadic people who included the lower La Junta de los Rios area in their territorial range, sometime during the period A.D. 1500 to 1700.