Tag Archives: Texas
The Sun Sets on Temple.
Posted on09. Jun, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
And the 12th annual Lone Star Archeological Society Show is now in the books. As folks departed the G.I.R.S. sponsored show this weekend in Temple, Texas, I overheard one eager attendee saying “only 363 more days until the next one!”
Kudos to Leslie Pfeiffer, the show host, for orchestrating such a well organized [...]
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April ‘09 Site of the Month: Texas Beyond History.net
Posted on08. Apr, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
Texas Beyond History (TBH) is a collaborative effort initiated by the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory (TARL) along with many other key Texas educational groups. It’s charter is to provide a virtual museum of Texas’ rich archeological and historical heritage.
TBH boasts that it contains information spanning the 540 generations of humans that called Texas home. [...]
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Amazing Similarities Between Texas and Arkansas Human Effigies
Posted on07. Mar, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
Separated at birth? Take a close look at these figurines. The first was found near Austin, Texas at a site on Onion Creek and is a fired ceramic clay figurine. The second comes from an old Arkansas collection and appears to be ceramic as well but could be stone. Found 40 years and hundreds of [...]
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Texas Topaz; True Gemstone Points
Posted on05. Mar, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
Topaz occurs naturally in the Llano Uplift region of Texas and is collected by locals and tourists alike. Mason County, in the Texas Hill Country seems to be ground zero and a popular hunting ground for the famous blue topaz. It’s here where the largest known gem-quality topaz was discovered, a 1,296 gram, pale [...]
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Central Texas Clovis Cache
Posted on04. Mar, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
In 2004, a sand mining operation in central Texas uncovered a cache of Clovis artifacts. Thirteen bifaces in varying stages of manufacture were unearthed. While this rare find was not scientifically excavated, there is much than can be learned from the assemblage.
Clovis points are found in central Texas however, Clovis caches are extremely rare [...]
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Possibly the Most Prolific Paleo Site; Cibilo Creek
Posted on01. Mar, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
Buried deep below the sand on a rise above Cibilo Creek, lies possibly the most prolific Paleo site found to date. Located 20 miles southeast of San Antonio, Texas, collectors know it better as the Wilson County Sand Pit (WCSP), a reference to the commercial sand mining operation responsible for discovering the site. [...]
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Corner Tang; A Texas Original
Posted on01. Jan, 2009 by Shannon Graham.
One of the many great archeological mysteries of Texas is ‘how where corner tang knives hafted?’
Luckily with the help of some very dedicated individuals, replication studies, and high power microscopy, we have a some plausible theories.
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