Abstract
Site 41LR351 was first recorded during the 2005 Texas Archeological Society summer field school on the Stallings Ranch in Lamar County, Texas. This prehistoric site is on a natural knoll (420-430 feet amsl) in the headwaters of Pine Creek, a northward-flowing tributary of the Red River, in the Post Oak Savannah. The site has been excavated by the Valley of the Caddo Archeological Society, and a large prehistoric Caddo ceramic assemblage has been recovered, along with a substantial chipped stone tool and debris assemblage. The analysis of the ceramic and lithic artifact assemblages from the site is the subject of this article.
Highlights
This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2013/iss1/44
Site 41 LR35 1 was first recorded during the 2005 Texas Archeological Society summe.r field school on the Stallings Ranch in Lamar County, Texas
The site has been excavated by the Valley of the Caddo Archeological Society, and a large prehistoric Caddo ceramic assemblage has been recovered, along with a substantial c-hipped stone tool and debris assemblage
Summary
Site Excavations The Valley of the Caddo Archeological Society (VoCAS) conducted excavations at 41LR35l between November 10, 2007 and October 31,2010, during which time 16 separate l x 1 m units were excavated in l0 em arbitrary levels to depths as great as 90 em bs (Figure 2). Utility wares generally are jars and simple bowls used for the cooking and storage of foods, have a coarse temper, and lack burnishing, polishing, or slipping on interior and exterior vessel sherd surfaces Such vessel sherds are decorated with brushing, incising, punctations (tool, cane, or fingernail), and appliqued elements, either by themselves or in combination with one or more of these decorative methods Two sherds from 4 I LR351 compare favorably to decorative elements on Holly Fine Engraved vessels (see Suhm and Jelks 1962:Plates 39 and 40) in that they have closely spaced sets of vertical and diagonal engraved lines on a vessel rim (see Perttula 2010:Figures 1b-c and Figure 2a). Suhm and Jelks ( 1962: 137) describe the decorative elements on Sanders Engraved vessels as "very simple straight-line motifs in a single zone around rims...the designs may consist only of parallel lines pitched in opposite directions at intervals... At the Stallings site, by contrast, 89% of a the rims are from plain, non-slipped vessels (Perttula 2008a)
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