They were the descendants of those earlier arrivals — the people who had already been in Texas for many thousands of years, who had watched the mammoths go, who had adapted to the changing world, and who had built the knowledge systems and social structures that would sustain their descendants for thousands of years more.

What A Visit To The Limestone Country Reveals

Anyone who drives through the limestone hills of Kerr County today, looking at the cedar-covered ridges and the rocky creek beds and the ranches with their cedar-post fences, is moving through a landscape that has been inhabited for an extraordinarily long time.

The sinkholes are still there.

They appear on the landscape as small depressions, sometimes with their openings visible, sometimes obscured by vegetation.

Most are unremarkable features of the karst terrain.