Volume 3, Article 2

AN UNUSUAL LATE ABORIGINAL ASSEMBLAGE  SAN SABA COUNTY, CENTRAL TEXAS  FROM THE WILSON SITE (41SS186), SAN SABA COUNTY, CENTRAL TEXAS

Charles A. Hixson
with a contribution by James K. Feathers

ABSTRACT

The late aboriginal component in the Wilson Site in San Saba County is unusual in that most of the assemblage is consistent with that of Classic Toyah, but the diagnostic projectile point is an unnotched triangular arrow point instead of the typical Perdiz point. The absence of Perdiz points suggests that this component is associated with non-Toyah people and possibly dates to after 1700. Archaeological testing by the Llano Uplift Archeological Society (LUAS) to find supporting evidence for a historic date identified an Austin phase shell midden and a “Late Component” composed of triangular arrow points, end scrapers, a beveled biface and bone-tempered sherds, but no items of European manufacture. Complicating matters, the luminescence dating on a ceramic sample opens the possibility that the Late Component predates the currently accepted beginning of the Toyah phase.

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