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Ancient weapons emerge from cave in Big Bend National Park

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A Big Bend National Park cave unveiled a trove of ancient weapons.

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Ancient Weapons Unearthed in Texas Cave Could Be the Oldest in North America

A cave near Ernst tinaja, Big Bend National Park, Texas. Credit: Geoff Gallice – CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons. Archaeologists recently unearthed what could be the oldest full weapon system in North America in a remote cave system in West Texas. The artifacts include a perfectly preserved hunting kit made of broken weapon components, hidden deep in the San Esteban Rockshelter cave system for 6,000 years. Director of the Center for Big Bend Stu…

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Ancient weapons emerge from cave in Big Bend National Park

A Big Bend National Park cave unveiled a trove of ancient weapons.

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Do You Think These Newly-Discovered Ancient Hunting Weapons Still Work?

An ancient weapons kit was discovered fully intact after thousands of years in this west Texas cave! Continue reading…

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Archaeologists discover trove of ancient weapons in Texas' Big Bend area

Cave discovery of a hunting kit yields a vivid glimpse into Big Bend history. It might seem like only bits of sticks and rock in a cave, but the discovery of a pristinely preserved hunting kit is shining a new light on the fascinating lives of West Texas' earliest residents. Deep inside that cave, an Indigenous hunter built a little fire, then reworked the broken components of weapons in his kit, leaving behind mundane items of everyday life tha…

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A 'monumental’ discovery: Texas archaeologists uncover trove of ancient weapons in Big Bend - Link Newspaper

An excavation team recently discovered an ancient trove of weapons in a remote cave system in Texas’ Big Bend National Park. Bryon Schroeder, director of the Center for Big Bend Studies, said in an interview with Texas Parks and Wildlife Magazine that the weapons found inside the cave system of the San Esteban Rockshelter in Big Bend, south of Marfa, could end up being a “pretty monumental” discovery that could eventually help our modern underst…

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