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Peopling of the Americas - Texas Style

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http://www.americanchronicle.com/articl ... leID=35913
One of the most important, and perhaps intriguing sites that have recently come to light is Gault, a large site more than 800 meters long and 200 meters across. Excavated and analyzed under the leadership of the Texas Archaeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas, Austin, the site occupies the constricted head of a small stream valley where reliable springs flow and abundant chert of extraordinary quality crops out. Clovis technology, historically thought to be the technology used by the first American Indians, is abundantly represented at the site, with several hundred thousand pieces of stone, bone, ivory, and teeth having been found and dating to the late Pleistocene/early Holocene boundary (12,900-12,550 calendar years before present). Most artifacts recovered are debris from stone tool manufacturing processes, but a diverse array of tools occurs as well, along with bones of several kinds of animals.
This is Charlies' stomping ground. From Archaeologica News. 8)
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I thought that Charlie said that Gault is fairly nearby.
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Post by Rokcet Scientist »

According to Google Earth, Gault is slap-bang in the middle of Austin . . .
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Yep, Charlie is in a very rich pre-clovis area, and he has been a one man recovery team on the eroding stream banks there.
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