Typology: Yegua Biface

This paper calls attention to a thin bifacial tool found primarily along the northeastern margins of Central Texas. Called “Yegua” by artifact collectors. These bifaces are presumed by some to have been used mainly as knives, while others believe usage as dart points is also possible. Although only a general age of Yegua bifaces has recently surfaced, it is believed useful
to present the evidence to the archaeological community at this time, and so it is proposed that formal type status be assigned now, and if more precise evidence of Yegua temporal/cultural status becomes available it can be readily updated.

The Yegua name was coined by Sergio Ayala, David Crain, and Bill German for a distinctive point type found by Keith Brown at the Gold Sands Site on Yegua Creek. Ayala, Crain, and German conducted a large-scale survey on the type in 2020, confirming distribution in Bastrop, Bell, Burleson, Caldwell, Colorado, Fayette, Hays, Lee, Milam, Montgomery, Washington, and Williamson Counties.