The Lubbock Lake National Landmark and Texas Tech University Museum is an active archaeological and nature preserve.

The landmark is located at the Yellowhouse Draw on Lubbock Lake just an hour from the New Mexico Border and Blackwater Draw where the first Clovis points were identified.

This female Mammoth and her calf welcome visitors to the museum and trails on the preserve.

Life size sculptures of late Pleistocene animals that lived here over 12,000 years ago, like this giant armadillo, roam the grounds.

It’s a good idea to start the tour in the museum where you can get a vision of the animals and hunter-gatherers that lived here 12,000 years ago.

Pleistocene Bison Antiquus Skull

Diorama of Bison Butchering. We describe a bison hunt and butchering in our book.

The bones were smashed to extract the fat-laden marrow.

Diorama showing how clay was massaged and worked. In our book, we use this diorama to describe the making of “spirit rocks.”

In our story, we use this diorama to describe the burial of Shonahna, revered healer and grandmother of our heroine, Mahrahmi.

This is an active archaeological site, and the on-site archaeologists welcome visitors’ interest and questions.

Visitors can walk through the preserve at their own pace and let their imaginations piece together a vision of life at the draw.

The archaeological preserve.

The archaeological preserve.