<< Text Pages >> Gault Site - Ancient Village or Settlement in United States in The Southwest
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Multi-periodSite Name: Gault Site Alternative Name: Buttermilk CreekCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 37.019 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Austin, TX Nearest Village: Killeen, TX
Latitude: 30.887000N Longitude: 97.651W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
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5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Ancient Settlement in Bell County, Texas.
The Gault Site lies on Buttermilk Creek in central Texas. Here, some of the oldest tool finds in North America have resulted in a re-examination of the Clovis people. At Gault they appear to have settled in 10,900 - 10,550 BC instead of continually roaming as nomadic hunters.
Finds have included stone tools and the debris of flint knapping, middens full of a wide variety of animal bone, fire pits, and unique inscribed stones. Most interesting are the pre-Clovis artifacts - few in number compared to the large number of Clovis and post-Clovis.
Tool finds have been made by random collectors for years, until the most recent owners turned to the University of Texas. Since then documented digs have been run by the Texas Archaeology Research Laboratory. The site is not open to the public, but finds have been documented and published research is available. See This link to find more.
The location given is only approximate for the site.
Note: Archaeologist publishes first complete look at technology of Clovis culture. See comment.
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