Gault site - Clovis people
By ElicBxn
@ElicBxn (64169)
United States
October 26, 2008 9:45pm CST
Well, I was watching the local news and they had an artical on the Gault site that is north of Austin, between Temple and Killeen. Well, I had to go investigate the news and found some articals to post for you guys.
I know some of you are also fans of history/archilogy like I am so here are these interesting sites.
http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/gault/index.html
http://www.utexas.edu/research/tarl/research/gault_intro.php
http://www.athenapub.com/10gault.htm
http://archaeology.about.com/od/gterms/g/gault.htm
This is the single best Clovis "camp" site where the Clovis people apparently lived if not year around, at least returned year after year. They seemed to have probably built shelters and have proven that the Clovis people weren't just fast moving, mammonth hunters, but were also settling and harvesting the plants of the area and behaving more like other hunter/gathering societies.
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@jillmalitz (5131)
• United States
27 Oct 08
I had not even heard of this. I lived in Austin many years ago. Sounds like something interesting.
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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29 Oct 08
The mammoths probably migrated from winter to summer feeding grounds every year and the clovis hunters would have followed them on that migration hunting and gathering on the way. But when the herds reached the summer feeding ground, the hunters would have been able to make a semi - permanent camp probably close to a good hunting site such as a river where they could hunt the animals as they came down to drink. This site is probably such a semi - permanent summer camp.
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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29 Oct 08
It sounds like a good site, water, probably good hunting and also a supply of good quality flint. The valley bottom land would also probably have supported a good variety of edible plants and berry bushesThe rock shelters would certainly have been used and probably over a long period of time.
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@jwfarrimond (4473)
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29 Oct 08
They would have hunted whatever animals were most available, if that was mammoths, that would be what they hunted. But I doubt if they would have passed up a chance to hunt any other sort of animal that presented itself.
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@ElicBxn (64169)
• United States
29 Oct 08
This site is actually proving that the Clovis are probably less the mostly mammoth hunter they have previously been pictured as. This site is just off a prairie in a spring feed valley. It would be an ideal place to probably to spend at least 3 seasons, maybe even 4. There is also an abundunce of flint in the area and it is apparent from the site that there was tool repair and production.
they have also found rock shelters at the site - so it is quite an interesting Clovis site.
@BarBaraPrz (51831)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 Oct 08
As others have said, "Very interesting." Thanks for the links. I wonder if they've found anything else besides the blades/projectile points?
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@BarBaraPrz (51831)
• St. Catharines, Ontario
27 Oct 08
Yeah, I noticed the engravings... wonder what that's all about?
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@tamarafireheart (15384)
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27 Oct 08
Hi ElicBxn,
Sounds very interesting, I'll check it out, thanks for the links.
Tamara
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