DigNation Festival
Season 2: Episode 35
Coastal Bend Archaeological Logistics Team (CoBALT) is an avocational archaeology group with impressive credentials and decades of experience. The group formed during the excavation of La Salle’s French settlement Fort St Louis, and some also worked on the earlier cofferdam excavation of La Salle’s shipwreck La Belle. They have been working on a site of significance in South Texas for 17 years. This site was discovered randomly after locals were finding artefacts and bones in their topsoil and gravel. This material had been mined off the surface of a local ranch property and sold as garden fill. In this talk, Heather Para reveals how their investigations have revealed some great finds, which seem to suggest a massive 10,000 years of habitation by humans.
