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Last week, some guy riding a personal watercraft on Lake Travis stumbled onto the remains of a prehistoric skeleton embedded in the clay soil. Archaeologists excavated the remains, along with arrowheads ("darl points") and other makeshift tools found nearby, estimating the man or woman to have lived anywhere from 1,000 to 2,000 years ago. While not nearly as old as the Pleistocene-era Leanderthal Lady found back in 1982, it was a pretty nifty discovery, as the skeleton was found "nearly intact."
Then, yesterday, a fellow on a Jet Ski happened upon another set of human remains at Lake Buchanan. Investigators, according to the KXAN report, are keeping mum about the find, pending further study by the Travis County Medical Examiner. Apart from likely being an adult, the remains haven't been identified as being either prehistoric or, more sinisterly, recent.
Photo by ronnieb on morgueFile
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"Prehistoric"? I thought we had some history before the year, er, zero.
the staff had a whole discussion about that when the story came out last week; i think that so long as there wasn't a "written history," it can count as "prehistoric" ... even though people across the atlantic were running around doing stuff and writing about it.