Gault Site (Buttermilk Creek)
Open-air site on Buttermilk Creek near Florence, Texas, with one of the densest Clovis assemblages in the Americas — and, beneath it, the reason it matters: Area 15 yielded an assemblage stratigraphically below the Clovis horizon, with OSL dates of roughly 16,000-20,000 years, published as the Gault Assemblage. Together with the adjacent Debra L. Friedkin site, it broke the Clovis-first model of the peopling of the Americas in the mainstream literature. No monumental architecture: the open question here is purely stratigraphic — how deep does the human horizon go? Managed by the Archaeological Conservancy with research by UT Austin and Texas A&M; access is restricted, so coverage is documentary rather than walkthrough. Coordinates approximate.
Walkthrough videos (3)
The Gault Site and the Peopling of the AmericasThe Archaeological Conservancy
Texas' 18,000(!?!) Year Old Gault Sitecf-apps7865
The Stones are Speaking: Gault Site Documentary - Ep 316Archaeology Podcast Network
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