Pennsylvania archaeologist Mark McConaughy, one of Archaeology @ About.com bulletin board's constant contributors, sends along this photographic guide to the Gault Site, a well-stratified Clovis and possibly pre-Clovis archaeological site in central Texas.
Mark took the tour out to the site during the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Austin a couple weeks ago. Gault is a well-stratified multicomponent site with a meter thick Late Prehistoric and Archaic midden overlying a hard packed Paleoindian component. It is one of the earliest known human occupations in the Americas (with a possible pre-clovis layer), and the site assemblage includes several samples of portable art by the Clovis people of 11,200 years ago. Thanks for all the pictures, Mark!
Mark took the tour out to the site during the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Austin a couple weeks ago. Gault is a well-stratified multicomponent site with a meter thick Late Prehistoric and Archaic midden overlying a hard packed Paleoindian component. It is one of the earliest known human occupations in the Americas (with a possible pre-clovis layer), and the site assemblage includes several samples of portable art by the Clovis people of 11,200 years ago. Thanks for all the pictures, Mark!
- The Gault Site Tour at the SAA Meeting, Austin, Texas, from Mark McConaughy
- The Gault Site, more info on the site
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