The Gault Site
The Art and Archeology of the Earliest Texans
Introduction
The Gault Project is an important Paleoindian
excavation in Central Texas. Based at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
(TARL) at the University of Texas at Austin and under the direction of Dr.
Michael Collins, an internationally known group of researchers is working
on a multicomponent stratified site that was almost continuously occupied
for 11,000 years.
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work from 1998-2002, that began with the excavation of a mammoth mandible
and associated Clovis artifacts, the Gault Project recovered more than one
million artifacts from the site. Currently the Gault staff is analyzing the
recovered data and beginning the production of a monograph slated for publication
in 2007. 
The Gault staff would like to thank all who
have made both the excavation and analysis possible. The Gault Project is
supported by TARL, the Texas Historical Foundation, the Summerlee Foundation, the Meadows Foundation, Houston
Endowment, the Geological Foundation of the Department of Geological Sciences
at the University of Texas, the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board,
and numerous private donors. Fieldwork and analysis has particularly benefited
from two Texas A&M Field Schools (2000 & 2001) and a Brigham Young
University field school in 2000. Volunteers too numerous to mention put in
more than 60,000 hours on the site and in the lab - special thanks going to
the Texas Archeology Society, the Tarrant County Archeology Society, the PaleoCultural
Research Group, Primtech, the Houston Museum of Natural Sciences, the New
Hampshire State Conservation and Rescue Archaeology Program (SCRAP), the Cactus
Hill Research Program, and the University of Texas Anthropology Department.
The entire project would not have been possible without the unfailing support
and assistance of the landowners; Howard, Doris, Ricky, and Leslie Lindsey.
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