Abstract
SWCA Environmental Consultants (SWCA) conducted an intensive cultural resources survey on behalf of the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), of the proposed Wurzbach Parkway Extension Project in San Antonio, Texas. TxDOT proposes to extend the existing Wurzbach Parkway approximately 5.3 miles between Farm-to-Market Road (FM) 2696 (Blanco Road) and Wetmore Road. The undertaking involves the new construction of a four-lane divided roadway within an approximately 250-foot right-of-way (ROW) that is state-owned property. Overall, the Area of Potential Effects (APE) is 27,984 feet long, 250 feet wide, and maximally 10 feet deep. Additionally, the APE covers roughly 51.77 acres of permanent and temporary easements. SWCA’s investigations of the Wurzbach Parkway Extension Project APE included a background review, and an intensive pedestrian survey with shovel testing and backhoe trenching of selected areas within the APE.
Highlights
Background reviews revealed that much ofSegment 3 had been previously surveyed as part of the old Wurzbach Parkway archaeological investigations (Black 1992; Black et al 1998a; Potter and Black 1995)
As no properties were identified that meet the criteria for listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) according to 36 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 60.4 or for designation as an State Archeological Landmark (SAL) according to 13 Texas Antiquities Code (TAC) 26.12, no archeological historic properties are affected and SWCA recommends no further work for the 5.3-mile Wurzbach Parkway Extension Project Area of Potential Effects (APE)
No diagnostic projectile points were recovered from the site and no features were identified
Summary
ROW will consist of two sets of three centrally-located, 12-foot-wide tolled lanes separated by a 6-foot median. The Archaic period represents a hunting and gathering way of life that was successful and that remained virtually unchanged for more than 7,500 years This notion is based in part on fairly consistent artifact and tool assemblages through time and place and on resource patches that were used continually for several millennia, as the formation of burned rock middens shows. This pattern of generalized foraging, though marked by brief shifts to a heavy reliance on bison, continued almost unchanged into the succeeding Late Prehistoric period.
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