Abstract
In the early 1990s, an ancestral Caddo habitation site and cemetery was reported to the junior author in the Big Cypress Creek valley in Franklin County in East Texas by a local collector. The site is in an area of other known ancestral Caddo cemeteries, including the Bruce J. Connally Farm (41FK5) and the P. G. Hightower Farm (41FK7). In this article we summarize the available information about this important but still little known ancestral Caddo site.
Highlights
In the early 1990s, an ancestral Caddo habitation site and cemetery was reported to the junior author in the Big Cypress Creek valley in Franklin County in East Texas (Figure 1) by a local collector
The eight burials in Area 1 that were investigated by the artifact collector were in east-west oriented graves with the individuals laid in the graves in an extended supine position
One of the burials had a clay pipe, and a total of 19 vessels had been placed as funerary offerings with the deceased individuals
Summary
In the early 1990s, an ancestral Caddo habitation site and cemetery was reported to the junior author in the Big Cypress Creek valley in Franklin County in East Texas (Figure 1) by a local collector. The site is in an area of other known ancestral Caddo cemeteries, including the Bruce J. *. +ightower Farm (41FK) (Thurmond 199015159). In this article we summari]e the available information about this important but still little known ancestral Caddo site
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