Austin-area dig gives rare clues to how people lived 16,000 years ago
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By Ralph K.M. Haurwitz - American-Statesman Staff
Updated: 2:15 p.m. Friday, May 11, 2018 | Posted: 1:48 p.m. Friday, May 11, 2018
You can hardly walk 10 steps along Buttermilk Creek about 45 miles north of Austin without finding evidence that people lived here thousands of years ago. The ground is littered with flakes of chert, a plentiful stone from which projectile points, blades, cleavers and other tools were fashioned.
Archaeologists who have dug as deep as 14 feet found layer after layer of stone tools, weapons and flakes that accumulated over time, indicating that prehistoric humans began gravitating to this area about 16,000 years ago.
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