This virtual exhibit presents a collection of artifacts recovered through archaeological investigations of 41HY163, Zatopec, located in San Marcos, southern Hays County. Zatopec, named for previous landowners, contains evidence of intermittent prehistoric occupation throughout the last 10,000 years. Though the site's earliest occupations, those prior to about 4,000 years ago, are not well preserved, artifacts left during later occupations provide a considerable amount of insight about past lifeways in the San Marcos area. From August 2007 to February of 2008, excavations were again carried out by Texas State University, this time by the Center for Archaeological Studies working under contract with the City of San Marcos prior to the City's construction of the Wonder World Drive Extension between Hunter Road and Ranch Road 12. In the 1980s, Southwest Texas State University conducted field schools here, recovering thousands of artifacts from different contexts.
