High Noon Talk: Capacity, Connections, and Clovis: The Gault Site
Programs
March 5, 2025 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Join us for an engaging talk that explores the groundbreaking discoveries of the Gault Site.
Event Details
Take a mid-day break with our free High Noon Talks! Discover interesting, and often untold, stories of Texas at our casual lunchtime series.
Discoveries made at the Gault Archaeological Site, located north of Austin, transformed our understanding of the earliest inhabitants of the Americas and their connections to the Old World. Join Dr. Jon Lohse, President of the Gault School of Archaeological Research (GSAR), to learn fresh insights from new research about how people first settled in the Western Hemisphere. Dr. Lohse will look at key questions and reveal new research from Central America, providing broader cultural context and significance.
This program is FREE to the public.
This program will be available as an on-demand recording for CPE credit. To get access to the link and a certificate, email Education@TheStoryOfTexas.com.
Dr. Jon Lohse has been a professional archaeologist for 30 years and currently works for Terracon Consultants, Inc. Since the mid-1990s, he has conducted multidisciplinary research into Archaic and Paleoindian cultures in the south-central U.S., and in Mexico, Guatemala, and Belize. He has been the President of the Gault School of Archaeological Research since 2022, and has served on the Board for more than a decade. With support and collaboration from GSAR, he currently oversees a research project in Belize that is examining the early Peopling process in Central America. This work holds important implications for how we understand Terminal Pleistocene social interactions in Central America, including multidirectional influences seen from South and North America up and down that land bridge.
Located in Florence, Texas along Buttermilk Creek, the Gault Archaeological Site is one of North America's most significant prehistoric sites. Spanning over 20,000 years of human habitation, it offers rare and compelling evidence of early human occupation in the Americas predating the Clovis culture, transforming our understanding of early life on the continent. Visitors can learn more about scheduling tours of the site on their website.
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