The Clifton Record (Clifton, Tex.), Vol. 111, No. 25, Ed. 1 Friday, June 23, 2006 Page: 64 of 110
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THE CLIFTON RECORD — BOSQUE COUNTY U.S.A.
FRtQAX JUNE 23.2006
Museum Announces Horn
Shelter Exhibit Unveiling
CLIFTON — Bosque Memorial Mu-
seum has announced four days of ac-
tivities surrounding the scheduled
Oct. 7 official opening of the Horn Shel-
ter Exhibit, depicting the
archeologically-rich Horn Shelter lo-
cated on the banks of the Brazos River
in Bosque County.
Kicking off the events surrounding the
exhibit’s unveiling will be a lecture at
Baylor University’s Mayborn Museum
by Dr. Douglas Owsley. Owsley is a fo-
rensic scientist and curator for the
Smithsonian Museum of Natural His-
tory in Washington D.C.
The lecture is being jointly sponsored
by Bosque Memorial Museum, Baylor’s
Anthropology Department, and the Cen-
tral Texas Archeological Society. Owsley
will address the significance of the
Horn Shelter, as well as his beliefs on
who the early inhabitants of Bosque
County were and where they may have
come from.
The estimated 600-square-foot ex-
hibit will depict an actual portion of the
Horn Shelter, including reproductions
of the remains of an adult male and a
child which have been carbon dated at
9,500 years old. The site is one of only
three in the nation to include Paleo-
American remains (a term used to de-
scribe man prior to Native American
Indians) which are accompanied by
burial goods.
The museum has been assisted along
the way in the project with the
Smithsonian Museum of Natural His-
tory. Smithsonian experts on early man,
like Owsley, have been helpful in assur-
ing the authenticity of the exhibit, ac-
cording to Larson.
Included in the exhibit will be a fa-
cial reconstruction of the adult male
found at the site. Visitors will not only
be able to look “inside the cave” at rec-
reated human remains and burial
items unearthed in the cave, but look
into the face of the first known per-
son in Bosque County almost 10,000
years ago.
Museum directors believe the exhibit
will be a major draw for the local mu-
seum, established in 1924.
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At the original site.
Artist renderings of proposed plan.
Bosque Memorial Museum
The Horn Shelter is located on pri-
vate property on the western bank of
the Brazos River not far downstream
from the Lake Whitney Dam. The shel-
ter is a 150 foot rock overhang up to 25
feet deep in places.
Major excavation of the shelter has
been underway by archeologists since
the 1960s. More than 100 boxes of arti-
facts have been removed from the site,
which was inhabited for centuries by
early man, Indians, and early white
settlers.
The unique feature which gives the
site such prominence in the archeo-
logical world, in addition to the age of
the remains, are the accompanying
burial goods, which consist primarily
of shells, antlers, sandstone slabs,
tools, flint knives, and additional “cul-
tural debris.”
The museum has been awarded sev-
eral grants for the project, and is now
in the midst of a major fundraising drive
to cover the projected $170,000 cost of
the exhibit. Fbr more information on the
Horn Shelter Exhibit, please contact the
museum, located at 301 South Ave Q,
Clifton, at (254) 675-3845.
HAVE BONES, WILL TRAVEL —
Albert Redder (right), the first to begin
excavation of the Horn Shelter in 1967,
visited Bosque Memorial Museum Cu-
rator Bernie Dutton, to prepare for a trip
that will take him and all the artificts he
has to Washington for the filming of The
History of the First Americans.
. . , — Staff Photo By Deborah Mathews
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