The Story the Bones Tell: A History of the Lubbock Lake Landmark (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)

Twelve thousand years of history are buried in the dust of the Llano Estacado―and the bones are finally ready to speak. Hidden within the Yellowhouse Draw on the edge of Lubbock, Texas, lies one of the most significant archaeological sites in North America. The Lubbock Lake Landmark was a secret kept by the earth, a silent witness to the extinction of giants and to the relentless endurance of the peoples who have lived there. In The Story the Bones Tell, veteran journalist Sally Logue Post takes readers on a journey through deep time. From the icy winds of the Pleistocene, where massive Columbian mammoths and ancient bison once gathered at the water’s edge, to the arrival of the first hunter-gatherers and the eventual settling of the modern West, this is more than a book about archaeology. It is a biography of a place. Post weaves together the high-stakes drama of scientific discovery with the intimate stories of the people who lived, hunted, and died on these grounds. Guided by the pioneering work of Dr. Eileen Johnson and generations of researchers, the narrative transforms dusty excavation pits into a vivid time machine.