The Rich Archaeology of the Texas Hill Country
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 เม.ย. 2021
- This Advanced Training opportunity was presented by Steve Stoutamire of the Hill Country Archaeological Association after the April Chapter Meeting of the Hill Country Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist, held on ZOOM on April 26, 2021. In this video, Mr. Stoutamire talks about the Hill Country of Kerr County and surrounding counties, where some of the richest archaeology in the State of Texas can be found. Sites are numerous here because of the abundance of local flints which provided the backbone of the ancient Native Americans stone age culture and technology. Abundant springs (particularly in the past), rivers and streams also contributed to the essentials of life for these semi-nomadic indigenous peoples. Studies of archeological sites in this part of Texas have revealed the essentials of the life ways of ancient Native Americans in our area. The talk will begin with the basics of what archeology is and why it is one of several subdisciplines of anthropology. The chronological periods of archeology in Texas and their dates are discussed as well as what tools and weapons ancient peoples used, what they ate and how they processed both meat and plant foods. The talk will conclude with the presentation of a local site which has recently been discovered and dated to be over 10,000 years old. Earlier Native Americans did inhabit our area, possibly as far back as 13,500 years ago.
To learn more about the Hill Country Archaeological Association, please refer to their website at hcarcheology.org/
For more information about the Hill Country Chapter, Texas Master Naturalist refer to the website at txmn.org/hillcountry/
When I was 6 in early 90s, We had a family outing in Bastrop Texas on the Colorado River.. We accidentally stumbled across a Mastodon/ Mammoth skull!i It's now in the Bastrop museum find of a lifetime!i!
That's wonderful. That must have been a very interesting experience. Thanks for posting.
@@hillcountrychaptertexasmas7309Always wonder what to killed it.? Or if he just couldn't swim!? Thanks I also inherited a palm size spearhead actually bigger .. i love it is still sharp!
Awesome!
I don't know if you're aware of the pay-to-dig sites just east of Austin. They have destroyed untold numbers of sites, some very large, using bobcat loaders and large sifting machines. The flint points and tools are truly astonishing in shape and in number, unfortunately we will never know just how important these sites are. I truly wish there were laws in place to protect ancient sites on private land in Texas.
Wonderful content !
Grew up in hill country and always interested in history here.
Extremely well presented! Thank you very much for sharing!
Thank you. Our Texas Master Naturalist chapter is always grateful when our presenters are willing to allow their interesting information to be made available to the public. I'm glad you enjoyed the content!
Happy to find this group! 👍🏼
I'm glad you enjoy the content!
I am really enjoying this video on ancient Texas as I am a ninth generation Texan. Texas is a very beautiful land and has a bit of everything to enjoy. Just drive 500 miles this or that way. Thank you for a well done video. Complaments to the chef.
We are so glad you enjoyed the video!
I have a place near the hill country in Medina county on the seco creek. I have found some amazing points many other artifacts. Awesome history! 💖
great video enjoyed seeing the finds
This has been an incredibly informative video. Then again, I am very much interested in all things ancient. I may be in the hills of West Virginia and have little here that pertains to Texas archeology. But, I have learned much from all the knowledge presented here. Thank you for sharing this with the rest of us.
I'm glad you enjoyed the video and learned from it. Our generous presenters make it possible for our chapter to share their information to a wider audience than our chapter members. It is a pleasure to be able to make a wide variety of subjects available to people from all over the country. Best regards from Texas!
Very interesting findings on those archeological digs. Thank you for posting.
Glad you enjoyed it
Hola Bob Wishoff from Raul Quintanilla Monterrey NL, I hope you will organize friends to make a road trip to visit the guitarritas site and many more of Nuevo Leon and Coahuila Mexico
I personally think if you are going to state what a hammer stone is usually made of, you need to get the facts first. At 18:30 + you state that hammer stones are usually made of chert. That is very wrong. Chert is brittle and usually breaks with a very sharp edge. Therefore, using a piece of Chert for a hammer stone would be harmful to the person using it if the Chert hammer stone would break.
I am a flintknapper, and all hammer stones experienced knappers use are never made from any material that is almost as sharp as a surgeons scalpel. Stone that will not break with concoidial fractures are the stones of choice for hammer stones. ......... Jerry (in Tucson)
Idk man…. Some chert thats not heat treated can be very tough… you being In Arizona might be familiar with basalt. Here in my area of Northeast New Mexico, we find lots of basalt points… we also find lots of basalt hammerstones. It tends to be the hammerstone we find more than anything else. Even more so than hard river stone/cobble. Personally, I wouldn’t use it as a hammerstone. Then again we dont have their arduous tasks of finding material and having to walk miles for good knapping stones. I think they used what was readily available most often than not. You come off like a know it all when Im sure you’ve never even held the chert hes talking about. Thats why they head treated some of it to make it more flakeable. As a flintknapper, you should know.
Actually, a rounded cobble of chert with the cortex still on it can be a very effective hammerstone. Just ask Marty @flintknappingtips. He's got at least a couple of videos demonstrating this.
I work in archeology and knapp here in SW Texas and we find flint knodules used for hammers all the time. It’s the only hammerstone I used before I had to quit. You won’t find a better stone that’s local.
Amazing video! Thank y'all
I'm so glad you liked it. Archaeology is such an interesting subject.
@@hillcountrychaptertexasmas7309 it sure is. Last weekend I took a Leisure drive through the Texas Hill Country between the Boerne Texas and Bandera Texas area. Along a road I lost track of I noticed several hilltop's that had terrraces. Is there an explanation?
@@williamesselman3102 our hills consist of thin layers of soil atop limestone or granite. The Llano Uplift is a distinctive region in encompasses Llano, Mason, San Saba, Gillespie, and Blanco counties but not Kendall County. The land around Boerne is our typical Hill Country landscape.
@@hillcountrychaptertexasmas7309 right, so native humans probably terraced those hilltops for soil collection and conservation. Someone should research them. There maybe pyramids underneath some of those Hills.
I think what makes those St Mary's points so crazy is they must have been going for serrated edges without pressure flaking. I can't think of any other reason you would attempt to cross flake like that.
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At 39:25, the styles dont look that much different. It could be a result of someone teaching another how to flake. Maybe a father teaching his son until he’s good enough to flake the other side of each one after he works it. An assembly line of sorts lol. I’m just sayin, they seem pretty similar to me. I’m not an archaeologist or anything.
Hey, I'm wondering if the SMH 'aberrant' form, with the left to right flaking pattern, might have been produced by left-handers. Same goes for the examples which have L-R on one face, and R-L on the other. Could've been a cooperative activity, like the Thunderbird Site (in VA), where the Paleo. workshop resembled a factory production line.
Thanks for the thumbs-up. BTW, I'm left-handed, which is (probably) why I thought about that.
Steve is so knowledgeable about this particular subject. I wish I could answer your comment but our Texas Master Naturalist Chapter is just glad people are enjoying the content. Thanks for watching!
What hand you use doesn’t effect the flaking pattern. It’s how the point was held when flaking it.
Just a wild guess on my part here.
They may have used a new tool, having worn the old one out before the other side was flaked.
Very interesting. Who do you contact about a visit? Ive found several items on top of the ground.
You could contact the Hill Country Archaeology Association hcarcheology.org/
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