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Originally located in a Cross Timbers/short grass prairie ecotone on the Brazos River in central Texas, the Stone site (41ML38), the archaeological site of the late eighteenth-century Wichita (Tawakoni) village of Quiscat's band, was investigated by Baylor University between 1999 and 2002. A 10 hectare geophysical survey (EM31 ground conductivity meter using a 1m grid interval) produced a village plan showing 75 circular anomalies (10-15 m in diameter), corresponding to the locations of round, grass-thatched lodges, arranged in three concentric ring clusters with outlying parallel rows. Archaeological excavation of one anomaly recovered post-molds arranged in a pattern that corresponded exactly in format (with three concentric rings: fireplace, 12 support posts, and outer walls) and size (9 m diameter) to the pattern derived from analysis of early twentiethcentury ethnographic photographs from Anadarko. The Wichita house served as a model for the layout of the village, and the pattern of house construction persisted from the 1770s-1905.

The Stone site (41ML38), referred to as \"El Quiscat's Village\" by renchman turned Spanish explorer, Athanase de Mézères, is located on the horseshoe bend of the Brazos River, north of present day Waco. It is the last remaining of several documented Waco Indian village sites in the area from the 1770s. The personal journal of de Mézères confirms his visit to the village in 1772, 1778, and again in 1779. But in 1786, the explorer found the village abandoned. This gives archaeologists an exclusive chance to study the impact of European contact over a short time frame, by studying the archaeological record of both trade and native made goods from the site. Researchers found almost equal amounts of French and Spanish goods, including large quantities of weaponry parts as well as articles for ornamentation. But as important as the trade goods recovered, was the lack of certain types of objects such as pottery and cookware.