Last week in "From the Archives," I introduced a series of planned columns half-jokingly titled "20,000 years of Austin history in 20 minutes." The headline comes from one of my stock speeches shared ...

A walk in the woods near the small community of Florence can take you back 15,000 years — no time machine needed. The Gault School of Archaeological Research — based at Texas State University in San ...

Newly discovered prehistoric Native American artifacts found in the dirt near Florence date back 16,000 years which makes them the oldest man-fashioned tools ever found in North America. Nancy ...

Recent archaeological discoveries across the Americas are reshaping our understanding of ancient history. At the forefront is the Gault site, where archaeologist Michael Collins has unearthed ...

Schoolchildren visiting the Gault Site in Bell County likely can be heard for miles as they holler into the Texas brush, “Archaeologists don’t dig dinosaurs!” Then they return home and make sure their ...

Some of the stone tools unearthed at the recent find at the Gault Archaeological site date between 16,700 and 21,700 years. Science Advances A new archaeological find suggests that humans inhabited ...

Inside a cavernous warehouse at Texas State University, half a dozen people crouch over long tables, carefully sifting through anthill-sized mounds of dirt, gravel and flakes of stone. Those piles, ...

July 20, 2018 (Reno, NV) - For decades, researchers believed the Western Hemisphere was settled by humans roughly 13,500 years ago, a theory based largely upon the widespread distribution of Clovis ...

People inhabited what’s now central Texas several thousand years before hunters from North America’s ancient Clovis culture showed up, researchers say. Excavations at the Gault site, about 64 ...

In the lowest layer of the Area 15 archaeological grounds at the Gault Site in Central Texas, researchers have unearthed a projectile point technology never previously seen in North America, which ...

Wilson W. "Dub" Crook, long-time member of the Houston Archeological Society and an adjunct faculty member of the Department of Anthropology at Texas State University, will speak on "The Peopling of ...