The Road To Prehistory
Jon Lohse
When archaeologists discovered several ancient Caddo sites during a highway expansion project in Texas, they had to make some difficult decisions about what could be preserved.
These heavily reworked arrow points indicate that high-quality stone was scarce in the western Caddo area.
By Elizabeth Lunday U.S. Highway 175 emerges from the sprawl of Dallas, shaking off the suburbs as it stretches southeast. Just beyond the city of Athens, this four-lane highway narrows to two lanes. Through Anderson and Cherokee counties it continues up
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and down rolling hills until it reaches Jacksonville, and terminates at the intersection with U.S. Highway 69. Southeast of Athens, the highway runs along a low hill. In the sparse shade provided by a few tents, a team of
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