Paleo South Texas
With the passing of the Cretaceous Interior Sea, Rockport was starting to gain
ground, so to speak. And South America was proving to be quite the bio-diverse cradle of our hemisphere. Many, many animals, such as the Black-Tailed
Prairie Dog - once a South Texas native, for certain - thrived for a while before
moving onto other climes. The Llamas and the Camels, and the Horses, all
come and gone - strewn to the wind, but a small speck on the face of Father
Time. Well, the Horses did return but at a much later date.
Then something really radical happened - humans arrived, and these were ‘Big
Game Hunters’. Some Archeologists have theorized that the demise of the
Woolly Mamoths and Giant Sloths in North America can be attributed to them.
Giant Sloth and Mammoth bones have been found all around South Texas bearing their distinct human markings.
LORE: HUMAN MIGRATION
During the last 12,000 years, early
humans left traces of their advance
into North and South America. We
use the term Paleo-Indian to establish them as an earlier resident
than the Modern Native American
Indian.
Some of these early tourists may
have been following the ‘Big
Game Animals’ of the time across
the Bearing Straight that connects
Asia with North America.
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