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Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...
Austin archaeologist Mike Collins established that the Gault Site, a dig an hour north of Austin, helped push back the date of human presence in the Americas to perhaps 20,000 years ago.
The Buttermilk Creek complex found at the Debra L. Friedkin Paleo-Indian archaeological site in Bell County, Texas, has provided archaeological evidence of a human presence in the Americas that pre-dates the Clovis peoples, who until recently were thought to be the first humans to explore and settle North America.
In 2018, the Bullock Museum unveiled its newly renovated long-term first floor Texas History Gallery titled Becoming Texas.The exhibition explores more than 16,000 years of Texas history beginning with one of the earliest known objects created by humans in the Americas, a projectile point [4] discovered at the Gault archaeological site 40 miles (64 km) north of Austin.
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week. → Hidden tunnel network found at abandoned 800-year-old home in France → Metal detectorist stumbles on 650-year ...
Here are three of our most eye-catching archaeology stories from the past week. → Boys found rare silver treasure under church, kept it in box for 60 years → 'Rare' 400-year-old tomb — with ...
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
Whether lost at the bottom of the ocean, tucked away in a library’s archives or hidden behind a kitchen wall, this year’s discoveries spanned an astonishing range.