One day this past June, Floyd McKee hauled a load of topsoil from near the bank of the Guadalupe River, on which his property sits, and dumped it on the grass in his yard.
"It rained that night, and when I went out in the morning, the yard was covered with spear points," he said. "I got more dirt and sifted it and found a dozen more."
Surprised, McKee contacted local archaeologists Bob Everett and Richard Kinz, both of whom soon declared that McKee's property, near Starcke Park, was among the richest Paleo-Indian archaeological finds they had ever seen.
Among the finds on the McKee property so far: rare Andice spear points; Guadalupe bi-face stone woodworking tools, used to build dugout canoes; arrowheads from Oklahoma and Colorado; and cleavers and seashells from the coast.
Wow. Talk about taking the shortcut to archaeo digging: Dump it on the grass, wait till it rains, pick up arrowheads. Yawn. Then have a beer; it's Miller Time.
Man, what a collection of points. Any Solutrean spear points yet???
Hey, how far is this from the famous (maybe not so famous) Gault Site, in central Texas??? It was mentioned in PBS documentary I reviewed -- available here if you wanna catch up on that.
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