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Contributed A unique variety of stone spear point – known as Calf Creek – was found from central Missouri southward to the coast of Texas. Little is known about their origins.
A talk on one aspect of central Texas prehistory some 6,000 years ago will be given at 12:30 p.m. on Jan. 8 at the Marble Falls Public Library. The speaker, Sergio Ayala, works at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas in Austin and has been part of the Gault School of Archeological Research since 2010.
The title of the talk is “The Calf Creek Horizon—A Unique Cultural Phenomenon at the Terminus of the Early Archaic”. Calf Creek is the term for a unique variety of stone spear point found from central Missouri southward to the coast of Texas. Locally known as Bell or Andice points, these projectiles have deep notches worked into their bases, making them visually striking. Although the projectiles are distinctive, little is known regarding the people who made and used them.
Ayala is an experimen tal archeologist and currently a doctoral candidate at the University of Exeter, UK. At the Gault School he has been heavily involved in field work, stone tool analysis and experiment studies. The Gault School focus is on the earliest peoples in the western hemisphere and their cultural antecedents.
The talk is sponsored by the Llano Uplift Archeological Society (LUAS), a local organization whose membership is made up of residents with an interest in archeology in general and with a focus on the Hill Country of Texas.
The library’s main entrance will open at noon for a brief social period in the Community Room, followed by the presentation. Members of the public, and particularly landowners with an interest in the archeology of their property, are welcome to attend, there is no admission fee.
More information about the Society is available at http://www.texasluas.org.
