Qualla: Baker Cave https://qualla.com/baker-cave en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:03 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_res/siteimages/rsslogo.png Qualla: Baker Cave https://qualla.com/baker-cave Baker Cave: Introduction https://qualla.com/baker-cave/ Somewhere in a small canyon near the Devils River in southwest Texas, a ranching family named Baker spent decades quietly turning away anyone who came poking around a limestone overhang on their land. The cave was 120 feet long by 56 feet deep, its ceiling dropping from full standing height at the mouth to just a few inches in the back. When archaeologists from the University of Texas at Austin finally began excavation in April 1962, they found something almost unheard of in Texas archaeology: a completely undisturbed site. No looters had scattered the layers, no treasure hunters had dug pits through the stratigraphy. Nine thousand years of continuous human use lay stacked in the dirt exactly as people had left it.

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/2/4/baker-cave-wp/9v24-baker-cave-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Baker Cave: Reading the Layers of Deep Time https://qualla.com/baker-cave/ The archaeologists, led by James H. Word with University of Texas researchers E. Mott Davis and T.N. Campbell, divided the cave's deposits into five zones spanning roughly 7500 BCE to 1600 CE. The site was designated 41 VV 213 -- the clinical shorthand belying what the dirt actua...

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/2/4/baker-cave-wp/9v24-baker-cave-a-kitchen-at-the-front-a-workshop-in-the-back.mp3 0:06 3 full Baker Cave: Flower Stalks and an Infant's Bones https://qualla.com/baker-cave/ Eight distinct features emerged from the excavation, each a small window into daily life thousands of years ago. A mass of grass bound with twigs. A whitetail deer antler that appeared to have been deliberately placed under a boulder. Twelve pear internodes tied with split sacahu...

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]]> Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/9/v/2/4/baker-cave-wp/9v24-baker-cave-flower-stalks-and-an-infants-bones.mp3 0:06 4 full Baker Cave: The Limestone Shelters of the Lower Pecos https://qualla.com/baker-cave/ Baker Cave is one of many rock shelters in the Lower Pecos Canyons region, where limestone formations along the Devils River and its tributaries created natural overhangs that ancient peoples used for thousands of years. What set Baker Cave apart was its pristine condition -- the...

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