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THE BATTALION
WEDNESDAY, MAY 4, 1977
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ists study baking pits
The proximity of several baking
pits to stands of native pecan trees
are causing some concern among
Texas A&M University ar
cheologists studying a site near
Taylor along the San Gabriel River.
Dr. Harry Shafer, associate pro
fessor of anthropology and principal
investigator on the $39,811 National
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the pits, apparently used for baking,
are the first of their kind seen in
Central Texas.
Native Americans apparently
visited this spot repeatedly, and
nearby pecan trees have led the
Texas A&M researchers to specu
late that pecans may have been one
drawing card.
“What attracted later white
settlers are probably the same
things that attracted these early in
habitants,” Shafer said.
The NPS awarded the grant in
February so the archeologists could
survey, record and recover material
from the site. The area will be inun
dated by the 65,000 acre-feet Lake
Granger, now under construction.
Further studies at the project will
be conducted when the Texas A&M
archeological summer field school
convenes there in July. Field
supervision is under staff ar
cheologist Clell Bond.
In order to efficiently use the
pits, explained Shafer, the prehis
toric inhabitants of the site apar-
ently dug a two-foot by two-foot
bowl and constructed an intensely
hot fire inside. The heat of the fire
served to make the pits almost
ceramic in figidity which greatly
aided their preservation. So far,
Shafer said, the examination is not
far enough along to determine how
they used the pits as cooking or bak
ing aids.
“We have to know what they ate
before we can fully realize how they
prepared it,” he said. An assortment
of fossilized animal bones and mus
sel shells have turned up, aloi
with some stone tools and a[f
fragments of pottery.
Shafer said that most of the p:
historic activity at the site occurs
in the past 500 years, and evidea
suggests little activity prior to
yeas ago.
The researchers seek to deti
mine if the area’s prehistoric ancia
dwellers used specific camp ati
for particular duties and if
types of stone tools can be traa
back to individual quarries.
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