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Texas
McFaddin Beach TX
Pleistocene artifact strand
Tidal foreshore Source-confirmed findsRestricted
What you could find
Reported finds from this shoreline.
Fossils
Shark teeth
Nails and fittingsAlso reported: eyes-only: Clovis and later points.
Photos via Wikimedia Commons: Partonez (CC BY-SA 4.0), Dominik Vogt (CC BY-SA 3.0), North Lincolnshire Museum, Martin Foreman, (CC BY 2.0).
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Why this spot
20-mile Gulf strand where currents throw up Clovis points, mastodon teeth and later wreck debris from drowned prehistoric land surfaces offshore
BOEM published a two-volume study cataloging hundreds of beachcomber-found points and fossils; 2025 press reported a new pre-pyramids tool find
Before you go
Hazards noted for this site.
Remote soft-sand drivingHigh surf, no services, summer heat
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