Imagine life on the shores of the San Antonio River 9,000 to 10,500 years ago. Hard to do? UTSA archaeologists got a glimpse into that life after unearthing more than 500 artifacts while assisting in the San Antonio River Improvement Project in South San Antonio. They found projectile points and woodworking tools thought to be for making canoes all those thousands of years ago.
Closer to downtown
San Antonio, archaeologists
discovered the trash
of one of Bexar County's
first surveyors. There
were bottles and ceramic
fragments, along with
meat bones and oyster
shells, thought to be from
the homestead of John
James, who lived along
North Presa Street in the
mid-1800s.