Abstract
The Peach Orchard site is one of several historic Caddo archaeological sites recently recorded by Kevin Stingley in the Bowles Creek drainage in the middle Neches River basin in Cherokee County, Texas. The Peach Orchard site had been exposed in erosion along a county road that bisects the southern end of the upland landform, while the remainder of the landform was primarily grass-covered when it was first recorded earlier in 2015. In November 2015, the landowner decided to shallowly plow the site area to improve its grass cover, and this plowing provided an opportunity to complete a surface collection of the site area from November to December 2015.
Highlights
The Peach Orchard site is one of several historic Caddo archaeological sites recently recorded by Kevin Stingley in the Bowles Creek drainage in the middle Neches River basin in Cherokee County, Texas (Perttula et al 2016:Figure 1)
The Neche cluster of ceramic vessel sherd assemblages includes several Allen phase Historic Caddo sites on Bowles Creek and the Neches River (41CE291). These components have high proportions of brushed sherds and high ratios of brushed sherds to other wet paste sherds (Table 8). These assemblages are almost exclusively comprised of grog-tempered vessels, but differences between the sites in the proportion of bone-tempered vessels suggest that two contemporaneous groups of Allen phase sites are present in the Neche cluster that had different ceramic technological practices
Perhaps the Peach Orchard site is one of the settlements occupied by a Neches or Nechas Caddo group around the time of the late 17th-early 18th century Spanish colonization of the middle reaches of the Neches River, but before sustained French trading activities, when several missions were established in this general locale: Mission San Francisco de los Tejas (1690-1693), Mission El Santisimo de Nombre Maria (1690-1692), and Mission Nuestra Padre de San Francisco de Tejas or los Nechas (1716-1719, 1721-1730)
Summary
The Peach Orchard site is one of several historic Caddo archaeological sites recently recorded by Kevin Stingley in the Bowles Creek drainage in the middle Neches River basin in Cherokee County, Texas (Perttula et al 2016:Figure 1). The Peach Orchard site had been exposed in erosion along a county road that bisects the southern end of the upland landform, while the remainder of the landform ZDVSULPDULO\JUDVVFRYHUHGZKHQLWZDVÀUVWUHFRUGHGHDUOLHULQ,Q1RYHPEHUWKHODQGowner decided to shallowly plow the site area to improve its grass cover, and this plowing provided an opportunity to complete a surface collection of the site area from November to December 2015
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