Abstract
Did ancestral Caddo peoples live and settle on the prairies of Central Texas in prehistoric times (i.e., before A.D. 1680)? Story had noted that there is little known about “the nature of the Caddo connections” in these sites, and she wondered what these settlements represented: “(1) groups from the east who occupied the area year round and/or seasonally; or (2) local groups who were interacting with Caddoans [sic] through trade, marriage, and visitations…?” In this article, I am concerned with the consideration of “Caddo connections” as expressed in the character of the ceramic assemblages from four sites in Central Texas that have been considered to have Caddo pottery and were occupied by Prairie Caddo peoples, Of particular importance are the stylistic (i.e., decorative methods and decorative elements) and technological (i.e., choice of temper inclusions) attributes of the sherds from the sites that are from utility ware and fine ware vessels. According to Shafer, the term “Prairie Caddo” refers to “Caddo groups [that] occupied portions of central Texas prairies in Late Prehistoric times,” from ca. A.D. 1000–1300.
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Prairie Caddo Sites in Coryell and McLennan Counties in Central TexasPart 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
The high proportion of engraved ¿ne ware sherds in the Chupik and Asa Warner sites—as well as at Urbankte (23 percent)—is notable for Prairie Caddo sites (e.g., Shafer 2006:38) and suggests that the Group II sites are residential villages where a “variety of vessels in both form and decoration” (Shafer 2006:10) were used; the proportion of engraved ¿ne ware sherds at these sites is more than has been documented at many East Texas Caddo residential sites
None of the many Caddo pottery samples from the Edwards Plateau/west central Texas area has a meaningful probability of membership in any of the Central Texas compositional groups.”
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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. (2016) "Prairie Caddo Sites in Coryell and McLennan Counties in Central Texas," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol 2016, Article 102. This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2016/iss1/102
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