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INDIflN USE Of WILD PflNTS fOR MEDi(INE
fl LUBBOCIi Lfllt LfNDMd.Rl DfMONSTIflTION
BY WILLifiM W ROSStf D.VM.
A young child wakes his mother in the night with his crying. While the father
sleeps, the mother carefully takes some dried herbs from a leather pouch and
crushes them in the palm of her hand. She places them in a cup and stirs the embers
of the fire, waiting for water to boil. While the water heats, she gently prods
her son's stomach and asks what he has eaten that day. When the water bubbles,
she pours it over the herbs in the cup and' blows on it to cool. When the tea is
tepid, she gently holds the cup to her child's mouth. He slowly drains the cup,
grimacing with each mouthful, but as the cup empties, his breathing stills, and
his eye lids close. He and his mother sleep until dawn.The Lubbock Lake Landmark is an archeological and
natural history preserve that contains evidence of continuous
habitation by a number of ancient peoples on the
Southern High Plains during a period of 10,000 years.
It is a designated national historic and state archeological
landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic
Places. It operates as a unit of The Museum of Texas
Tech University.
Lubbock Lake is located in a meander of an ancient valley,
presently called Yellow House Canyon. It is the site
of an ancient spring-fed watering hole that both people
and animals used for thousands of years.1 The spring that
fed the lake went dry in the early 1930s due to farm irrigation,
which lowered the level of the water table. This
prompted the city of Lubbock to dredge the lake in an
effort to revitalize the spring. The dredging cleared thesediment that had accumulated during the thousands of
years and exposed traces of human activity. A projectile
point was found in earth that had been dredged out of the
lake and was identified by Dr. W.C. Holden, then director
of the West Texas Museum (now Texas Tech Museum)
as a Folsom point. This find was important because the
original Folsom point, found in an archeological dig in
Folsom, New Mexico, in 1927, demonstrated that ancient
man was present on the Southern Plains at least 10,800
years ago. The presence of another Folsom point at Lubbock
Lake corroborated this conclusion. Archeological
excavation began at the Landmark in 1939 and has been
conducted on an annual basis since then. 2
Although the archeological excavation at the Lubbock
Lake Landmark is significant, the educational value offered
by the site is also of great importance. The visitor'sH E RI TAGE E Volume 4 2007
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