A Late Caddo Cemetery at the A. Davis Site in the Little Cypress Creek Basin, Upshur County, Texas

Timothy K Perttula,Bo Nelson

doi:10.21112/.ita.2013.1.36

Abstract

The A. Davis site is a previously unreported Late Caddo period Titus phase cemetery in the Piney woods of the Little Cypress Creek basin in Upshur County, Texas. There are notes and collections from the site in the Buddy Jones collection at the Gregg County Historical Museum, and our analysis of those materials are presented in this article.

Highlights

Davis site indicate that the primary component here is a Late Caddo Titus phase cemetery, likely a family cemetery used by neighboring farmstead families in the Little Cypress Creek basin
McKinney fine ware vessels in Burial 2 suggests that this burial, at least, dates to the latter part of the Titus phase
Davis Burial site VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.1381 NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog VESSEL FORM: Jar RIM AND LIP FORM: Everted rim and rounded lip CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air) INTERIOR SURf'"ACE COLOR: yellowish-brown EXTERIOR SURF-ACE COLOR: yellowish-brown; fire clouds on the rim, body, and base WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 6.2 mm; body, 7.9 mm; base, 7.4 mm INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: none HEIGHT (IN CM): N/A ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 18.0 DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 17.8 BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 8.4; Hat and circular ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): N/A DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): There are vertical incised lines on the rim, and a single horizontal incised line at the rim-body juncture (Figure 10)

Summary

Introduction

Davis Burial site VESSEL NO.: 2003.08.1213 NON-PLASTICS AND PASTE: grog VESSEL FORM: Carinated bowl RIM AND LIP FORM: Direct rim and a rounded, exterior folded lip CORE COLOR: F (fired in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air) INTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown EXTERIOR SURFACE COLOR: dark yellowish-brown; lire douds on the body WALL THICKNESS (RIM, BODY, AND BASE IN MM): rim, 8.2 mm INTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: smoothed EXTERIOR SURFACE TREATMENT: burnished HEIGHT (IN CM): 10.8 ORIFICE DIAMETER (IN CM): 20.7 DIAMETER AT BOTTOM OF RIM OR NECK (IN CM): 20.5 BASE DIAMETER (IN CM) AND SHAPE OF BASE: 6.6; flat and circular ESTIMATED VOLUME (IN LITERS): 1.3 DECORATION (INCLUDING MOTIF AND ELEMENTS WHEN APPARENT): The cenlral elements of the motif are engraved diamonds repeated four times around the vessel.

Results

Conclusion