Abstract

This article reports on two new radiocarbon dates obtained from ancestral Caddo sites in East Texas. These dates provide new information on the ages of Caddo occupations at the sites, and they contribute to the further expansion of the East Texas Caddo radiocarbon database.

Highlights

  • This article reports on two new radiocarbon dates obtained from ancestral Caddo sites in East Texas

  • Two new radiocarbon dates have been obtained from two Caddo sites in East Texas: the Sanders site (41LR2) on the upper Red River and the Susie Slade site (41HS13) in the mid-Sabine River basin

  • The calibrated radiocarbon date from the Susie Slade site, the third date from the site on organic residue preserved on ceramic vessels, has a median calibrated age of A.D. 1771, and a 2 sigma age range of A.D. 1661-1815

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Additional Radiocarbon Dates from East Texas Caddo Sites

Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Cite this Record Perttula, Timothy K. and Selden, Robert Z. (2015) "Additional Radiocarbon Dates from East Texas Caddo Sites," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol 2015, Article 60. This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2015/iss1/60.

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