Texas archaeologists have the right idea about labor. Meanwhile Ol' Duke takes a rest.
Posted on 11/18/2006 10:15:51 AM PST by blam
11,000-year-old Texans are stars of the Bosque Museum
01:31 PM CST on Friday, November 17, 2006
By MARY G. RAMOS / Special Contributor to The Dallas Morning News
A special new exhibit at the Bosque Museum in Clifton, Texas, features the lives of some extremely early Texans. Prehistoric people (called Paleo-Americans by archaeologists) lived in a cave shelter on the western bank of the Brazos River a bit downstream from the Lake Whitney Dam in Bosque County about 11,000 years ago. Paleo-Americans were using the 150-foot by 30-foot shelter before ancient Egyptian civilization began. A Texas archaeologist discovered the shelter, named the Horn Shelter for the site's landowner, in the 1960s.
What makes the Horn Shelter discovery special?
It is one of the oldest Paleo-American burial sites in the country, and one of only three where human remains have been found along with burial goods.
What was found in the Horn Shelter?
Artifacts, slowly and carefully excavated over 30 years, filled more than 100 boxes. The most exciting find was the remains of a Paleo-American adult male and an 11- or 12-year-old girl, discovered in 1970, along with ritual items buried with them, including turtle shells, hawk claws, coyote-tooth pendants and a bone needle. Other prehistoric artifacts were found in the cave, as well as items left by more modern American Indians and early white settlers.
What's at the museum?
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
There was another group, probaably related to the Ainu, prior to 6,000 years ago.
Excellent catch. Wow! An author who sees through the political correctness!
Why would one group be "indians" and not the other? I thought "indian" was a designation given by early explorers to the natives because they thought they were in India. Or is that just my public education showing?
There appears to have been a different race of people here prior to the migration of the people we call 'Indians' today. Today's 'Indians' replaced the previous group.
"The oldest human remains found in the Americas were recently "discovered" in the storeroom of Mexico's National Museum of Anthropology. Found in central Mexico in 1959, the five skulls were radiocarbon dated by a team of researchers from the United Kingdom and Mexico and found to be 13,000 years old. They pre-date the Clovis culture by a couple thousand years, adding to the growing evidence against the Clovis-first model for the first peopling of the Americas."
Of additional significance is the shape of the skulls, which are described as long and narrow, very unlike those of modern Native Americans."
blam,
they also weren't Texans, since there was no Texas!
Texas is a state-of-mind.
Texas was referred to by early Spanish explorers as the "New Philliphines". Nothing against Filipinos but saying that Davey Crockett and the New Filipinos fought to death at the Alamo lacks something.
Actually, it was this guy's doing...
Someone has'nt been to Austin in while.
The entire Capitol building is teeming with "Paleo Americans"...most with LLDs from A&M.
"State of Mind"? A terrible thang to waste.
Take my memory back there Lord! Sometimes a moment comes thinkin' about, all them Fillipinos on thier Palominos...
Brown-eyed Girl!
As described, it's on the west bank of the Brazos below Whitney Dam, about halfway up a 50' limestone cliff.
Virtually all the work was done on the weekend, on their own time, so we ran into them whenever we canoed past the site.
Time to take the grandkids down to the Bosque Museum...
There's always been a Texas, (well since the end of the long last ice age anyway) it just hadn't been found yet. In fact these folks may have come to North America just as it ended, or even possibly before the last little cold spell really set in (there was a warm spell between the end of the last "long" ice age and the last short ice age known as the Younger Dryas, which only lasted about 1,300 years, and which went from cold to temperate in as little as a few decades.
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Well, having lived in Texas for many years, we would get mini-ice ages when ever a Blue Norther would come through. Temp could drop from 80+ degrees to 30 degrees or less in 15 minutes. Now thats a a serious weahter change.
And btw, my mother spent part of her childhood on the banks of the Brazos near Abbey Bend. This was during the depression and people set up camp there to make the best of the situation, or until they made the dust bowl trek to sunny California singing "Hey Arkie, if you see Okie, tell'm Tex has gotta job in Cally-fornia, pikin' up prunes, squeezin' oil outa olives" Just a tidbit of history.
er, "weather" change, that is.
I lived for several years less than 3 miles from the HRS. It's not the only one of it's caliber. Matter of fact, I know of one that's never been potholed and is MUCH larger than it. There are also several archaeological sites in that vacinity that exceed 30' in depth, which is easy to see because of the layers of habitation show in cut banks from the surface all of the way down to the bedrock. The old timers used to use paleo points as skipping stones in that area when they were kids because paleo points were some of the only rocks around in the sand fields across the river from the HRS. The other rocks were Waco sinkers, and they don't work so well. There is more archaeological work to be done in this immediate area and I would give both of my testicles to be the one who got to roam the woods searching. Someone could spend their entire life being an archaeologist there. I'd do it, but I moved to North Carolina a few months ago from Gholson(next to the HRS), and am currently enthused about gold in the creek behind my house. lol.
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