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LUBBOCK, Texas — Experience an active archeological site firsthand at the Lubbock Lake Landmark’s annual Archaeology Days event on July 16-18.
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Free tours will take place at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m. during the event and will give visitors insight into how people have lived in Lubbock for more than 13,000 years. The tours will take visitors near a site with Apache-era artifacts and excavations of the Singer store, the first mercantile store in this area.
The Landmark is an internationally recognized archaeological site and is unique in that its record of humans is continuous and that its work focuses on the entire Quaternary Period, which spans from roughly 2.6 million years ago until the present. Most archaeological sites do not focus on such a broad time period.
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As a part of the Archeology Days event, Native American storyteller Eldrena Douma will discuss Native traditions and potter Darlene James will build, paint and fire her ceramic pieces. Both women are from the Tewa-Hopi tribe…