A Multicomponent Archaeological Site at Spring Lake, San Marcos, Texas

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

In the 1970s, researchers recovered fluted points that appeared diagnostic of Clovis technology in Spring Lake, the spring-fed headwaters of the San Marcos River located along the Balcones Escarpment in Central Texas. Although recovered in mixed stratigraphic contexts, this evidence suggests that Ancestral Peoples may have visited the site for over 13,000 years. Since then, several research teams have confirmed that the site provides evidence of consistent human use throughout the early Holocene, Archaic, and Historic periods and remains significant in the traditions of contemporary Indigenous Cultures. In this poster, we summarize results of previous archaeological and geoarchaeological investigations and the archaeological problems that continue to drive research at this important cultural resource and on the site’s artifact collections. Discussion will highlight how ongoing investigations by our team of Texas State University researchers and students are addressing problems concerning access to and the integrity of stratified cultural deposits, diachronic and synchronic variation in prehistoric peoples’ activities around the lake, and our understanding of Ancestral lifeways practiced in Central Texas.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2024: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)

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Abstract Id(s): 40115.0