The ''' Gault archaeological site''' is an extensive, multicomponent site located in [[Florence, Texas]], [[United States]] on the Williamson-Bell County line along Buttermilk Creek about 250 meters upstream from the [[Buttermilk Creek complex]]. It bears evidence of almost continuous human occupation,habitation startingfor at least 1620,000 years, ago—makingmaking it one of the few archaeological sites in the Americas at which compelling evidence has been found for human occupation dating to before the appearance of the [[Clovis culture]]. Archaeological material covers about 16 hectares with a depth of up to 3 meters in places. About 30 incised stones from the Clovis period engraved with geometric patterns were found there as well as others from periods up to the Early Archaic. Incised bone was also found.<ref>Pfeiffer, Leslie S., "The Gault Site", Central States Archaeological Journal, vol. 52, no. 1, pp. 24–24, 2005</ref><ref>Lemke, Ashley K., et al., "EARLY ART IN NORTH AMERICA: CLOVIS AND LATER PALEOINDIAN INCISED ARTIFACTS FROM THE GAULT SITE, TEXAS (41BL323)", American Antiquity, vol. 80, no. 1, pp. 113–33, 2015</ref><ref>Collins, Michael B. et al., "Engraved Cobbles from Early Archeological Contexts in Central Texas. Current Research in the Pleistocene", 8, pp. 13-15, 1991</ref>[[File: Gault_Site_Area_15_external.jpg|thumb|middle|400 px|Part of the Gault site; the tent covers the 2007–2014 excavation.]]
