They were people who traded for marine shells from distant coasts and placed those shells with their dead.

They were people whose lives were organized by belief systems and social structures that we can only partially glimpse through the archaeological evidence they left behind.

The Archaic Transition — When Texas Changed

The period between approximately 10,000 and 6,000 years ago — the early to middle Archaic — was a time of significant change in Texas.

The Pleistocene had ended.

The great ice sheets were gone.