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[Rockiologist]

Gault in central Texas is a stratified multicomponent site with a meter thick Late Prehistoric and Archaic midden overlying a hard packed Paleoindian component. The site is particularly well known for the large quantities of Clovis materials--more than 600,000 Clovis age artifacts have been recovered from less than 3% of the site. This probably constitutes about 60% of all known Clovis artifacts recovered in North America which makes it an unprecedented research collection. The site is in a small valley with abundant food resources, multiple springs and large quantities of Edwards chert.


Wow 60 percent of known clovis material is from one place. Makes me wonder what we as a people really know of this time frame. You?

 

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[Th3rty7]

Link?

 

[The Grim Reaper]

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/gault/index.html

http://impactnews.com/georgetown-hutto-taylor/history/2972-the-gault-site

http://www.texasbeyondhistory.net/gault/clovis.html

http://archaeology.about.com/gi/o.h...as.edu/research/tarl/research/gault_links.php

 

[SoIll]

60% of "professionally" excavated.

 

[joshuaream]

60% of "professionally" excavated.

Yes, and of the hundreds of thousands of artifacts found there, there are really only a handful of clovis points. 95% are flakes, 4% are flake tools, 1% are really worked tools, and a just fraction of those are Clovis points.

That said, Kudos to Collins for recognizing the importance of the site and buying it. It is one of the more complete Clovis sites out there and deserves to be studied.

 

[Rockiologist]

http://archaeology.about.com/od/gterms/g/gault.htm

This is one of many just search gault clovis. Collins was not the first but has done the most. Thanks to tnmts for turning me on to this site.