>From David Locklear, [email protected] I just barely glimpsed at the map in the link, but I would bet this landmark was one that was flooded by the dam at Lake Amistad. My archaeology professor at Texas A&M, Dr. Dixon, stated in a class lecture that the project destroyed an enormous amount of historical sites. ( I took one semester only in 1985, I think )
[ Sidenote: The only thing I got out of that class was the professor looking me sternly in the eye and telling me that even if I had a P.h.D. in archaeology that I would be lucky to get a low paying job as a museum curator, and he knowing that I had ambitions to be a caver, implied to me the same for Speleology. ] I guess I do remember fuzzy things about stratigraphy and some Danish dude, and something about hominid bone fragments resembling a skull found during a dig or expedition to Africa 100 years ago. Back to the old map, I think the river marked San Pedro has to be the Devil's River. But I am not sure what the river in the area marked Pallos Blancos could mean. Pallos would be person's last name, unless the map-maker meant Palos and did not know how to spell it. Most noteworthy is that the landmark is 1/2 way between mouth of Pecos and Bracketville, which would put it just west of the Devil's River meaning under or near the shores of Lake Amistad.
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