The Gault Site, located in a small river valley in central Texas, is a stratified multicomponent site with a meter thick Late Prehistoric and Archaic midden overlying a hard packed Paleoindian component. The site is particularly well known for the large quantities of Clovis materials--more than 600,000 Clovis age artifacts have been recovered from less than 3% of the site. This probably constitutes about 60% of all known Clovis artifacts recovered in North America which makes it an unprecedented research collection.
Photos from:
- Michael R. Waters and Thomas W. Stafford Jr. 2007. Redefining the age of Clovis: Implications for the peopling of the Americas. Science 315:1122-1126.
