Abstract
The East Texas Radiocarbon Database is an important and relatively new database concerning one key aspect of the archaeological record of the Caddo peoples that lived in East Texas from as early as ca. A.D. 800/850. To date, there are a total of approximately 920 radiocarbon dates available from ancestral Caddo sites in the region in the East Texas Radiocarbon Database.
Highlights
The East Texas Radiocarbon Database is an important and relatively new database concerning one key aspect of the archaeological record of the Caddo peoples that lived in East Texas from as early as ca
A total of nine new radiocarbon dates have been obtained from four ancestral Caddo sites in East Texas, namely three dates from the Burks site (41WD52) in the upper Sabine River basin; three dates from the Walter Bell site (41SB50) and one date from the Wylie Price site (41SA94) in the Angelina River basin at Lake Sam Rayburn; and two dates from the Goode Hunt site (41CS23) in the Black Bayou basin
The conventional radiocarbon ages of the radiocarbon samples from these four sites range from as early as 502 + 25 years B.P. (Burks site) to as late as 250 + 22 years B.P. (Goode Hunt site), all falling in the Late Caddo period
Summary
The East Texas Radiocarbon Database is an important and relatively new database concerning one key aspect of the archaeological record of the Caddo peoples that lived in East Texas from as early as ca. The nine radiocarbon dates reported on in this article are from four archaeological sites: one in the upper Sabine River basin, two sites in the Angelina River basin at Lake Sam Rayburn, and the fourth site on Black Bayou in the Red River basin. A.D. 1400, during the late Caddo period, and one site may have been occupied after ca. W. Burks site is a Late Caddo period Titus phase settlement and cemetery in the Little Dry Creek basin in the upper Sabine River drainage in the East Texas Pineywoods. Investigations of the site in 1978 LGHQWL¿HGVHYHUDOPLGGHQGHSRVLWV0LGGHQV$'DQGDQHDUE\FHPHWHU\3HUWWXOD)LJXUH%DVHG RQVSHFL¿F5LSOH\(QJUDYHGPRWLIVRQYHVVHOVLQRQHEXULDODWWKHFHPHWHU\DVZHOODVWKHIUHTXHQF\RIUHG slipped sherds in the midden deposits, “it seems likely that the Caddo occupation took place in the 15th and 16th centuries, perhaps ending in the early 1500s” (Perttula 2005:25). 'XULQJWKRVHLQYHVWLJDWLRQVFKDUUHGRUJDQLFUHPDLQVZHUHUHFRYHUHGIURP¿QHVFUHHQVDPSOHVRIPLGGHQ deposits, and samples of those organic remains recently were submitted for radiocarbon dating. The samples included charred maize cupules from Midden A (Unit 2, level 4, 30-40 cm bs) and charred hickory nutshells from Midden C (Unit 3, level 3, 20-30 cm bs and Unit 4, level 20-30 cm bs) (Table 1)
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