Landergin Mesa

{{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=August 2023}} {{Infobox NRHP | name = Landergin Mesa | nrhp_type = nhl | image = | caption = | location = {{Address restricted}} | nearest_city = Vega, Texas | built = {{Start date|1300}} | added = October 15, 1966 | area = | refnum = 66000821<ref name="nris">{{NRISref|version=2010a}}</ref> | designated_nrhp_type = July 19, 1964<ref name="NHLlist">{{Cite web|author=Staff|date=June 2011|title=National Historic Landmarks Survey: List of National Historic Landmarks by State (Texas)|url=https://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/tx/TX.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150702030329/http://www.nps.gov/nhl/find/statelists/tx/TX.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=July 2, 2015|publisher=National Park Service|accessdate=October 24, 2016}}.</ref> }} '''Landergin Mesa''', near Vega, Texas, is an archeological site, preserving some of the most significant Texas Panhandle culture ruins. Landergin Mesa is a large site with many isolated structures, it is important because of the unique artifacts dating to the Antelope Creek Phase. There are well preserved examples of Borger Cordmarked ceramic vessels from the period. The site also exhibits unique architecture indicative of the Antelope Creek Phase.

Landergin Mesa is a mesa in Oldham County, Texas, in the watershed of the Canadian River. The mesa, relatively modest in scale, rising about {{convert|180|ft|m}} above the valley floor, and has relatively steep sides, features which would have provided a highly defensible position with views across the surrounding countryside.<ref>{{cite journal|last=Smith Jr.|first=Griffin|title=Forgotten Places|journal=Texas Monthly|date=August 1975|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VSwEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA64|accessdate=2018-01-09|page=71}}</ref> The top layer of the mesa is a thick sandstone, with a sheer drop around much of the mesa's circumference. The mesa's usable surface is covered by a large building remnant with many chambers. An area outside the structure is littered with evidence of domestic occupation, including manos and pottery remains. The site has regularly been subjected to archaeological vandalism by pothunters. The areas in the valley below the mesa, and other nearby landforms, also exhibit evidence of prehistoric human habitation. Radiocarbon dating places the period of occupation around 1300 CE.<ref>{{cite journal|url=https://repositories.lib.utexas.edu/handle/2152/77911|title=Canadian Breaks: A Natural Area Survey, Part VII of VIII|year=1975|publisher=University of Texas at Austin|accessdate=2018-01-09|pages=80–100|doi=10.26153/tsw/5000|author1=University Of Texas At Austin. Division Of Natural Resources And The Environment }}</ref>

==See also== {{Portal|National Register of Historic Places|Texas}} *National Register of Historic Places listings in Oldham County, Texas *List of National Historic Landmarks in Texas

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==Additional source== {{cite journal|title=TAS Donors Fund Research—Antelope Creek Phase Ceramics|url=http://www.txarch.org/pdf/publications/2007-04Fall.pdf|last=Meier|first=Holly A.|journal=Texas Archeology|publisher=Texas Archeological Society|date=Fall 2007|volume=51|issue=4|pages=17–18|access-date=September 22, 2017}}

Category:National Historic Landmarks in Texas Category:Archaeological sites in Texas Category:Geography of Oldham County, Texas Category:Archaeological sites on the National Register of Historic Places in Texas Category:National Register of Historic Places in Oldham County, Texas