Prehistoric skeleton found along Lake Travis

austin american-statesman ^ | Monday, August 28, 2006 | Marty Toohey

[Arrowhead1952]

That is all I do as well. I usually hunt when I fish along the banks, or take a stick to poke at possible artifacts. I never dig into anything. FReep mail coming.

[demkicker]

Molly Ivins and Kinky Friedman are ecstatic to have finally found that fork in their family tree.

[evets]

This site west of Salado has 10,000 year old 'Clovis' remains.Gault site.

They ate mammoths.

[P-40]

Hey! You gettin' wet?

Nope, but we are seeing clouds...and this is something new. Or perhaps it is smoke...

[BJClinton]

I never heard of Leanderthal Woman

She taught AP English at Pflugerville high school in the late 80s. Mean as they come.

[Zechariah_8_13]

South San Gabriel near the 183 bridge.

THIS I have to hear about! Got any links?

[Ditter]

Great find!

We used to own some property near Tarpley Texas. We found evidence of a campfire in a similar spot along a creek. It contained a circle of burned stones and burned sticks. It had been under about 20 feet of dirt and was exposed by a heavy rain. No skeletons but we found some fabulous arrowheads.

[wolfcreek]

THIS I have to hear about! Got any links?


No links but, all the universities come down from time to time to study them. You might check with them. There are ones down there that I haven't seen yet.

[humblegunner]

Cool!

I wasn't in the area until the late 80's / early 90's so I'm in the clear.

[Arrowhead1952]

I don't know if this means anything, but when I saw that headline in today's paper, "Running low, lake gives up ghost", I was hoping this was about our neighbor's niece who drowned in the Big Sandy arm last summer. Tina and the family has been devastated ever since, and still no closure.

I had to go to a friend's house to pick up a software disk a few minutes ago, and just as I was turning back onto the street at the LV clubhouse, there was Tina. That seemed so strange to see her as I hoped for them to gain closure. She always said, "The lake has her body, but God has her soul". I almost wish the lake stays low enough to find that girl's remains.

[Arrowhead1952]

My former supervisor lives close to where the 183A tollroad reconnects with 183 just south of the South San Gabriel River. I surface hunted for artifacts there several years ago with no luck. I didn't explore much of the river bottom, just the feeder streams in the area. Yes, there are supposed to be dinosaur tracks in the San Gabriel river bottom.

[TWfromTEXAS]

I live right near Leander. I never heard of Leanderthal Woman

my aunt teaches at Leander High School and told me about this years ago. I think "she" was found in the early 80's.

[Ptarmigan]

Interesting find. Never heard of Leanderthal woman. Learn something new. Probably Indians.

[LukeL]

That was my first thought, prehistoric is over 6,000 years old. Even 1,000 years old would be pushing it for North America.

[Arrowhead1952]

Goolge search

The second link is for Leander.

Leander Tx.

Here a picture from that site.

[Zechariah_8_13]

thanks, I'll look into them. I'd love to see that.

This thread makes me want to go down to our river bank and start digging!

[wolfcreek]

Go on down and have a look. Just don't dig in the river bank, my HOA owns the property.

[exile]

Helen Thomas is brought in to identify the body.

[Yellow Rose of Texas]

There is an active dig in Kingsland. You call ahead for tours. You can get into the pits and dig if you want to. The dig is a village used by Indians every summer for 1,000's of years.

Rose

[Larry Lucido]

Pre-Texas-history.