![]() ![]() The only definitive evidence they seem to have left behind is a This location as early as the Paleoindian period and again in Early Archaic, and possibly, Obscuring much of the site’s developmental history. Times as well as by the forces of nature, especially rodent burrowing and tree roots, ![]() The occupation zone had been heavily disturbed by humans in ancient and modern The prehistory of the site, aside from the burials themselves, is largely a Additional research by Coryīroehm and several other volunteers recovered one more burial and helped to define the site ![]() Remains representing about 25 individuals were encountered in five 1-x-1-meterĮxcavation units placed along the silage trench wall. Salvage work continued intermittently for about two years. Year by student volunteers under the direction of Troy Lovata, then a graduate studentĪt UT-Austin. Small-scale salvage excavations were undertaken the following It was obvious that the steep trench wall would continue to erode and destroy what (39 inches) within which were numerous artifacts similar to those found on the surface The trench wall revealed a thick upper layer about a meter thick Stone tools, all evidence of intense prehistoric activity, were scattered across the Tool-making debris, animal bone fragments, freshwater mussel shells, and occasional Hester and several of his students found the remains of several human burialsĮroding out of the south wall of the silage trench. Hester at the University of Texas at Austin, who soon came down to take a He surmised were human bones eroding out of the south wall of this trench. In 1995, some forty years after the trench’s excavation, the landowner noticed what Trench was left open and the walls slowly eroded. Some abandoned silage trenches were backfilled, but in this case the At the time, some ranchers used such trenches to store greenįodder for livestock feed, a practice now used rarely because of improved storage In the 1950s, a deep silage trench some 180 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 10 feetĭeep was dug down the length of the ridge, cutting straight through the Silo site. In the Late Archaic period, roughly 2000 yearsĪgo, people began to use the site as a cemetery. Native peoples used the site for a camping spotĪt various times during the Archaic era. Mesquite trees, hackberry, prickly pear cacti,Īnd brush grow dense along this creek and its surroundings. (41KA102) sits atop a low ridge overlooking a small, unnamed, wet-weather creek that flows In the gently rolling landscape of central Karnes County, the Silo site ![]()
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