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Investigation Of Prehistoric Rockshelter And Terrace Sites Along Portions Of The Salado Creek Drainage, Nothern Bexar County, Texas, A. Joachim Mcgraw, Fred Valdez Jr.

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

During late fall and winter of 1977, personnel from the Center for Archaeological Research, The University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA), conducted limited test excavations and controlled surface collections along portions of the Salado Creek drainage in northern Bexar County (Fig. I). Four specific areas were examined, as they were soon to be inundated or critically altered by proposed floodwater retarding structures. The sites in these locations had previously been identified and recommended for further work by Hester et al. (1974). During field operations, the areas of Floodwater Retarding Structures 3, 6, 10 and 15 were investigated. A total …