Category Archives: fauna

Following Up on the South Bank

Posted on March 25, 2014 by George Crawford

The South Bank of the Clovis site refers to an area at the southern end of the prehistoric pond around which lie a group of cultural sites spanning a time from the end of the last ice age until recent … Continue reading →

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And the evidence continues to build.

Posted on October 30, 2011 by Jeremy Loven

Score one, possibly a definitive one, for the pre-Clovis people.  Below is an abstract from an article by Michael R. Waters et al published in the October, 2011 issue of Science that summarizes his findings concerning a projectile point lodged … Continue reading →

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Hawk and Snake

Posted on October 28, 2011 by George Crawford

Blackwater Draw is still an active hunting site. I was fortunate enough to see an amazing wildlife battle yesterday evening.  It was life at its rawest on the Llano Estacado.  I wanted to be an impartial observer but, being human, … Continue reading →

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Photo of the Week 9/16/2011

Posted on September 16, 2011 by trowelgal

Illustration of a worked mammoth tusk excavated and on display at the Blackwater Draw site. Archaeologically speaking, finding the raw material (mammoth ivory), or finding finished tools (ivory rods, shaft wrenches…), is far more common than finding ivory  in the … Continue reading →

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The Age of Dogs

Posted on August 4, 2011 by George Crawford

Its seems the date of dog domestication keeps being pushed further back in time.  Recent finds in the Altai mountains of Siberia indicate domestication by 33,000 B.P., near the peak of the last ice-age.  The specimen shows paedomophism in the … Continue reading →

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Sloth!

Posted on April 26, 2011 by George Crawford

Humerus from a Paramylodon harlani discovered in 1963 by the El Llano Archaeological Society the Gray Sands at or just below the Clovis levels.  This is the upper front leg of a large ancestral sloth that lived in the Southern … Continue reading →

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