Abstract

Site 41HO70 in the East Texas Pineywoods is an ancestral Caddo settlement that was extensively looted by a well-known East Texas looter in 1985. The available information about the site discussed in this article is gleaned from the records and a 1986 artifact collection held by the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL).

Highlights

  • Site 41HO70 in the East Texas Pineywoods (Figure 1) is an ancestral Caddo settlement that was extensively looted by a well-known East Texas looter in 1985

  • Artifacts apparently were still present in the sandy sediments below the midden, to a depth of at least 150 cm bs, but these deposits may relate to an initial occupation of the site during the Woodland period, based on the presence of Goose Creek Plain, Yar unsSecLÀeG sherds in the small ceramic sherd collection

  • Davis site (4CE19), the principal mound center in the Neches River basin (Newell and Krieger 1949; Story 1997, 1998, 2000)

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Summary

INTRODUCTION

Site 41HO70 in the East Texas Pineywoods (Figure 1) is an ancestral Caddo settlement that was extensively looted by a well-known East Texas looter in 1985. The available information about the site discussed in this article is gleaned from the records and a 1986 artifact collection held by the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL)

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ARTIFACT COLLECTION AT TARL
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