A short drive from the park, is the Horn Shelter Archaeological Site on the Brazos River.

The Bosque Museum houses a collection of paleolithic artifacts from the Horn Shelter burial site located on the Brazos River near Clifton, Texas.

The museum collection includes a forensic facial reconstruction of the Paleoindian male buried around 10,000 years ago along with a young female.

The museum's photograph of the excavated Horn Shelter archaeological site.

The museum's reconstructed burial scene at Horn Shelter represents one of the oldest sites containing full skeletal remains in North America.

Around the bodies lay a collection of delicately pierced shells presumably crafted for ornamental wear and decoration.

Among the artifacts found close to the man’s skeleton were three perforated coyote teeth, which may have been strung on a necklace; four unperforated claws of a Swainson's hawk; and five badger claws, one placed within the mouth cavity.

One of the most unique artifacts is a small carved stone chiseled to possibly resemble an owl with traces of red ochre powder ground into its cracks and creases.

Turtle shells were found stacked under and over the male’s face. In our story, they symbolize the man’s ability to turn inward for spiritual guidance.

In addition to the ornaments, a cache of tools was found containing turtle shells, deer antler butts, sandstone grinding stones, a fragment of red ocher, a chipped-stone biface, and a long, slender deer bone.

Mark provides perspective standing next to the life-size forensic re-creation of the 10,000 year old Bosque Man