Abstract
The Rowland Clark site is located in Red River County, Texas, on a prehistoric river channel of the Red River that has been intersected by a more recent channel of the river. It is approximately 16 km south of the Arnold Roitsch or Sam Kaufman (41RR16) site. The site had small Coles Creek and Early Caddoan period occupations, but the major occupation was of a McCurtain phase group of the Late Caddoan period. I The site has been in the Clark family for more than a century. The land the site is on is the property of Mr. Rowland Clark. The site lies on a narrow alluvial terrace at the edge of the floodplain, and it is bounded on the north by a comparatively recent river bank with springs at the base. An older river bank is to the east, and to the west is a small range of sandy pimple mounds, some 5-6 feet tall. These pimple mounds may be ancient sand dunes. A shallow swampy depression, part of an older watercourse, lies between the sandy mounds and the site.
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Introduction and Site SettingThe Rowland Clark site is located in Red River County, Texas, on a prehistoric river channel of the Red River that has been intersected by a more recent channel of the river
The site had small Coles Creek and Early Caddoan period occupations, but the major occupation was of a McCurtain phase group of the Late Caddoan period.I
Our excavations at the Rowland Clark site were intended to document the habitation and mortuary feat ures of Caddoan late McCurtain phase groups who occupied the site, and to corroborate the archaeological information previously obtained from work at Roden (Perino 1981) and Bob Williams (Perino 1983)
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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 Perino, Gegory (1994) "Archaeological Research at the Rowland Clark Site (41RR77), Red River County, Texas," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol 1994, Article 11. This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1994/iss1/11. Archaeological Research at the Ro;wland Clark Site (41RR77), Red River County, Te.xas
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