Abstract
In the last few years, we have had the opportunity to study a number of prehistoric Caddo Indian sites in the Ouachita Mountains of southwestern Arkansas through conducting archeological surveys of more than 2700 acres at three lakes constructed and managed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District. The three lakes are DeGray Lake on the Caddo River, Lake Ouachita on the Ouachita River, and Lake Greeson on the Little Missouri River. Our purpose in this article is to summarize the archeological character of the prehistoric Caddo sites in these three different parts of the Ouachita Mountains. We focus in particular on the material culture record of these prehistoric Caddo settlements—especially on the ceramic sherds found on them—and discuss when these sites may have been occupied by Caddo peoples.
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This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2004/iss1/21
In the last few years, we have had the opportunity to study a number of prehistoric Caddo Indian sites in the Ouachita Mountains of southwestern Arkansas through conducting archeological surveys of more than 2700 acres at three lakes constructed and managed by the U.S Army Corps of Engineers, Vicksburg District (Perttula and Nelson 2000, 2001, 2002)
We focus in particular on the material culture record of these prehistoric Caddo settlements—especially on the ceramic sherds found on them—and discuss when these sites may have been occupied by Caddo peoples
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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. 26-40 cm bs) is a very dark brown sandy loam with charcoal flecks, fire-cracked rocks, and an area of oxidized soil that may be a hearth feature. Both the upper and lower midden samples contain an abundance of prehistoric Caddo pottery sherds in the shovel testing (n=18), occurring at a density of ca. The first eight samples are in the prehistoric midden deposit with abundant lithic and ceramic artifacts, charcoal flecks, and fire-cracked rocks; as previously mentioned, there is a concentration of oxidized soil between 28-44 cm bs.
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