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Henry Gault, from whom the site takes its name, put together a 250-acre farm in the Buttermilk Creek Valley, starting in 1904. At some point in the early 20th century he found extra income as an informant for early archaeological explorations in Central Texas working with the first professional archaeologist in Texas, J.E. Pearce, as well as avocational archaeologists (Alex Dienst, Kenneth ...
Michael R. Waters from Texas A&M University along with a group of graduate and undergraduate students began excavating the Debra L. Friedkin Site in Bell County, Texas in 2006. The site is located 250 metres (820 ft) downstream along Buttermilk Creek from the Gault site; a Paleo-Indian site excavated in 1998 and found to have deeply stratified ...
Austin archaeologist Mike Collins established that the Gault Site, a dig an hour north of Austin, helped push back the date of human presence in the Americas to perhaps 20,000 years ago.
In 2018, the Bullock Museum unveiled its newly renovated long-term first floor Texas History Gallery titled Becoming Texas.The exhibition explores more than 16,000 years of Texas history beginning with one of the earliest known objects created by humans in the Americas, a projectile point [4] discovered at the Gault archaeological site 40 miles (64 km) north of Austin.
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Location of Bell County in Texas. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Bell County, Texas. This is intended to be a complete list of properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Bell County, Texas. There are four districts, 66 individual properties, and one former property ...
Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas (1 C, 23 P) Pages in category "Archaeological sites in Texas" The following 32 pages are in this category, out of 32 total.
This page is one of two listing the National Register of Historic Places listings in Texas's Central region. The Central region is an area of 20 counties defined by the Texas Comptroller for economic reporting in 2022, as mapped here .