Abstract
Pottery vessels from ancestral Caddo sites are widely known across all parts of East Texas, with recognizable vessel forms and decorative styles that have both distinctive temporal and spatial distributions. In this article we put on record an engraved Caddo vessel with a rather unique design from an unknown site in the Quitman area in Wood County. This part of East Texas, specifically the Lake Fork Creek basin in the upper Sabine River drainage, is an area with an extensive record of ancestral Caddo habitation sites and cemeteries. In particular, there are many Late Caddo period, Titus phase, sites and family cemeteries dating from approximately 330 to 580 years ago (A.D. 1430-1680) known in this area. The Caddo vessel described herein is thought to come from an unknown Titus phase cemetery in this area.
Highlights
Pottery vessels from ancestral Caddo sites are widely known across all parts of East Texas, with recognizable vessel forms and decorative styles that have both distinctive temporal and spatial distributions (Perttula 2013; Suhm and Jelks 1962)
In this article we put on record an engraved Caddo vessel with a rather unique design from an unknown site in the Quitman area in Wood County
The engraved olla from an unknown ancestral Caddo site in the Quitman area of Wood County, in East Texas, has a distinctive engraved oval eye element. This particular element has rarely been identiÀed and documented in East Texas Caddo vessel assemblages, but the few vessels that we are aware of have been found in cemeteries in the mid- and upper Sabine River basin and the upper Cypress Creek basin that date after ca
Summary
Pottery vessels from ancestral Caddo sites are widely known across all parts of East Texas, with recognizable vessel forms and decorative styles that have both distinctive temporal and spatial distributions (Perttula 2013; Suhm and Jelks 1962). In this article we put on record an engraved Caddo vessel with a rather unique design from an unknown site in the Quitman area in Wood County. This part of East Texas, speciÀcally the /ake )ork Creek basin in the upper Sabine 5iver drainage, is an area with an extensive record of ancestral Caddo habitation sites and cemeteries (Bruseth and Perttula 1981; Cast et al 2006; Crane 1982; Jackson 1930; Perttula 2004, 2005, 2012; Perttula et al 1993, 2007, 2009). The Caddo vessel described is thought to come from an unknown Titus phase cemetery in this area
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