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The final report was issued in 2005.
More than 20 occupation levels were identified, including what is probably the largest known Angostura occupation (Late Paleoindian, ca. 9,000-years-old) in North America, and an exceptionally well-preserved, 7,000-year-old Early Archaic occupation.
This site clearly represents one of the most important archaeological discoveries in Texas. The project has employed more than 50 individuals, including students and faculty in the Departments of Anthropology and Soil and Crop Sciences at Texas A&M University.
Specialists in environmental archaeology from several other universities (e.g., Universities of California, Kansas, Nebraska, and Wisconsin, as well as Southern Methodist University) and research programs (e.g., Beta Analytic, Houston Museum of Natural Science) have participated in the paleoenvironmental reconstruction component of this project.
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- Thoms and Mandel (1992)
- The Richard Beene Site: A Deeply Stratified Paleoindian to Late Prehistoric Occupation in South-Central Texas.Current Research in the Pleistocene 9:42-44.
- Carlson, et al. (1990)
- A Research Design for Archeological Investigations at Applewhite Reservoir, Bexar County, Texas (Revised). Prepared for Freese & Nichols, Inc. Copy on file at the Center for Environmental Archaeology, Texas A&M University.
- Thoms and Ahr (1995)
- The Pampopa-Talon Crossing and Heermann Ranch Sites: Preliminary Results of the 1994 Southern Texas Archaeological Association Field School. La Tierra 22(2):34-67.
- Thoms et al. (1997)
- Early and Middle Holocene Occupations at the Richard Beene Site: The 1995 Southern Texas Archaeological Association Field School Project. La Tierra 23(4):8-36.
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| Project Sponsor: | San Antonio Water System |
| Co-Principal Investigators: | Alston V. Thoms, David L. Carlson, David D. Kuehn |
| Project Director: | Alston V. Thoms |
| Project Geoarchaeologist: | Rolfe D. Mandel |
| CEA Collaborators: | Ben W. Oliv,e John E. Dockall, Patricia A. Clabaugh, J. Philip Dering |
| Faculty Collaborators: | D. Gentry Steele, Michael R. Waters, Vaughn M. Bryant |