Abstract
The Earl Jones Farm site is one of a number of Late Caddo period, Titus phase (ca. A.D 1430-1680), sites along tributaries of Lake Fork Creek in the upper Sabine River basin in East Texas, nor far from Quitman, the county seat for Wood County. This includes sites such as J. H. Reese (41WD2), L. L. Winterbauer (41WD6), 41WD19, 41WD44, Pine Tree (41WD51), Burks (41WD52), and Steck (41WD529) with habitation features, midden deposits, and family cemeteries.
Highlights
The Earl Jones Farm site is one of a number of Late Caddo period, Titus phase
Titus phase habitation sites with midden mounds and family cemeteries are quite abundant in this part of the Lake Fork Creek basin as well as in adjoining drainages not far to the west (Bruseth and Perttula 1981; Perttula et al. 1993), suggesting a sizeable population of ancestral Caddo farming groups lived in this part of East Texas
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Summary
The Earl Jones Farm site is one of a number of Late Caddo period, Titus phase (ca. A.D 1430-1680), sites along tributaries of Lake Fork Creek in the upper Sabine River basin in East Texas (Figure 1), nor far from Quitman, the county seat for Wood County. The Earl Jones Farm site was located and investigated by Wilson and Jackson (1930; see Reese 1931) in August 1930. The Texas Archeological Research Laboratory, The University of Texas at Austin (TARL) artifact assemblage recovered from the excavations in the midden mound at the Earl Jones Farm site includes ceramic sherds (n=437), one ceramic pipe, one clay plug/labret, six clay coils, two bone ornaments, and animal bones (n=107). The latter included canid, deer, turtle, and one possible bison toe bone (1986 TARL inventory sheets).
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