The Hill Country sky was the same sky, though the atmosphere of the early Holocene was slightly different in its composition — a world still adjusting to the end of the Pleistocene.

The vegetation cover was in transition.

The early Holocene in Texas was a time when the plant communities of the Ice Age — adapted to cooler, wetter conditions — were being replaced by communities better suited to the warming, drying climate.

Grasslands were expanding in some areas.

The oak and juniper woodlands that cover much of the modern plateau were establishing themselves.

The specific mix of species was still shifting.