Lubbock Lake is in a meander of the Yellow House Draw also known as "Punta de Agua", a tributary of the Brazos River, near ancient springs.

The dune, in the northeastern section of Lubbock Lake, contains sediments and buried soils from at least 36,000 years ago.

By about 12,000 years before the present (10,000 BC), the draw had cut a bend about 15 meters (49 feet) deep in the area of the Landmark.

The Lubbock Lake Landmark exhibits a virtually complete cultural sequence from the Clovis Period to historic times.

The time of people in North America generally is divided into five cultural periods, all of which are represented at Lubbock Lake Landmark.

This material has been recovered from an area where secondary butchering of parts of carcasses took place and mammoth bones were broken to secure pieces to use or make into tools.

Folsom and later Paleo-Indian peoples hunted and killed ancient bison around the ponds and marshes in the draw.

Several bone beds containing bison and pronghorn remains have been found in the windblown and stream deposits of this stratum at the Landmark.

Excavation of processing stations from this period have produced the remains of modern bison, coyote, wolf, and pronghorn.

Spanish explorers were in the area during the later Protohistoric Period, but their presence had no detectable influence on the native cultures or archaeological remains.

Information derived through excavation of sites from these time periods can be compared to historical records to provide a clearer understanding of the lifeways and population movements of these native peoples.

Artifacts such as rifle cartridges, metal hardware, square nails, buttons, and a ginger beer bottle represent George Singer's store and home of the early 1880s.

Located at the edge of what was then called Long Lake and the crossing of two military trails, the store was built near the springs as a trading post for early settlers and cattle ranchers in the area.