Abstract
Excavations in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at the Fred Yarbrough site (41VN6) in the upper Sabine River basin recovered a number of ceramic vessels from Area B of the site. Johnson provided an initial description of the vessels as well as drawings of a number of the reconstructed vessels. In this article, I reexamine the nine vessels from the Fred Yarbrough site held in the collections of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin (TARL), employing the vessel documentation protocol used in recent years to document ancestral Caddo vessels from sites in East Texas, and I also provide photographs of each of the vessels.
Highlights
Excavations in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at the Fred Yarbrough site (41VN6) in the upper Sabine River basin (Figure 1) recovered a number of ceramic vessels from Area B of the site (Johnson 1962:225; see Wilson 1950). Johnson (1962:226-230 and Figure 22a-g) provided an initial description of the vessels as well as drawings of a number of the reconstructed vessels
I reexamine the nine vessels from the Fred Yarbrough site held in the collections of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin (TARL), employing the vessel documentation protocol used in recent years to document ancestral Caddo vessels from sites in East Texas, and I provide photographs of each of the vessels
The ceramic vessels described and documented are from Area B of the site, described by Johnson (1962:224-225) as follows: This consisted of a small area, approximately 20 feet in diameter, of dark humus-stained midden soil containing many potsherds and bone scraps...it was a small habitation area of one, or at the most, two houses
Summary
Excavations in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at the Fred Yarbrough site (41VN6) in the upper Sabine River basin (Figure 1) recovered a number of ceramic vessels from Area B of the site (Johnson 1962:225; see Wilson 1950). Johnson (1962:226-230 and Figure 22a-g) provided an initial description of the vessels as well as drawings of a number of the reconstructed vessels. Excavations in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration (WPA) at the Fred Yarbrough site (41VN6) in the upper Sabine River basin (Figure 1) recovered a number of ceramic vessels from Area B of the site (Johnson 1962:225; see Wilson 1950). Johnson (1962:226-230 and Figure 22a-g) provided an initial description of the vessels as well as drawings of a number of the reconstructed vessels. I reexamine the nine vessels from the Fred Yarbrough site held in the collections of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin (TARL), employing the vessel documentation protocol used in recent years to document ancestral Caddo vessels from sites in East Texas, and I provide photographs of each of the vessels
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