Where: Denton County, Texas (33.1° N, 97.0° W: paleocoordinates 33.1° N, 97.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• the pit "removed some 20 feet of earth from the local [Upper Shuler subformation of the] Pemberton Hill-Lewisville (T-2) terrace surface" (thought to be Peorian = mid-Wisconsinan in age) and hearths were recovered from layers 1, 2, 3, and 5 in the local sequence of seven layers, each capped by "a minor uncomformity and caliche formation"; there are radiocarbon dates on "charred, fibrous, vegetable material" and "remains of 4 small logs" of "more than 37,000 years B.P." from two distinct hearth sites in layer 2

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: "floodplain"; yellow, sandy claystone

Size class: macrofossils

• "more than 21 hearths of an ancient campsite" were found and "much of" the fauna was "actually burned within the hearths themselves, and the remainder closely associated as camp refuse, along with certain distinctive artifacts" including a "Clovis point"

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collected by T. E. White, G. L. Evans, E. B. Jelks, W. W. Crook, R. K. Harris in 1949 - 1957

Collection methods: salvage,

• borrow pit was excavated by the U.S. Corps of Engineers from 1949 to 1951 and by the Dallas Archeological Society from 1952 to 1957

Primary reference: W. W. Crook, Jr. and R. K. Harris. 1958. A Pleistocene campsite near Lewisville, Texas. American Antiquity 23(3):233-246 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 93527: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 20.01.2010

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