Abstract
During primarily the late 1950s Sam Whiteside investigated a slate of sites on the upper reaches of Prairie Creek in eastern Smith County, Texas. Archaeological investigations ranged from fairly extensive efforts at a couple of sites, including the Chapman site (41SM56), to fairly limited excavations at others based on the amount of recovered artifacts. Artifacts and notes from a number of the sites were donated by Sam Whiteside to the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin. However, artifacts and notes from other Prairie Creek sites were kept by the family and after Mr. Whiteside’s death were made available to the senior author. Other than the Chapman site, none of the archaeological findings from other sites has been published. This article makes that information available to the archaeological community in Texas.
Highlights
During primarily the late 1950s Sam Whiteside investigated a slate of sites on the upper reaches of Prairie Creek in eastern Smith County, Texas (Walters 2005) (Figure 1)
60 some–odd years have passed since Sam Whiteside conducted archaeological investigations on Prairie Creek in eastern Smith County, Texas, it is remarkable that the artifacts and notes he collected are still available for study
Much of this is a tribute to the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory in Austin, Texas, for the role it plays in preserving artifacts for future study
Summary
During primarily the late 1950s Sam Whiteside investigated a slate of sites on the upper reaches of Prairie Creek in eastern Smith County, Texas (Walters 2005) (Figure 1). E=exterior; I=interior, SM=smoothed; B=burnished; FC=¿ring conditions: A=¿red and cooled in an oxidizing environment; B=¿red and cooled in a reducing environment; F–H=¿red in a reducing environment and cooled in the open air; Th=thickness; Temper: g=grog; h=hematite; b=bone; SP=sandy paste; D=direct rim; RO=rounded lip; OD=ori¿ce diameter. The Whiteside collection has 10 rim or body sherds from the Will Butler site (Table 6) These are from grog–tempered (n=8), grog–hematite (n=1), and bone–grog–tempered (n=1) vessels. The decorated sherds from the site have horizontal, diagonal, and cross–hatched incised elements (n=3), zoned incised–punctated elements (n=3), and engraved sherds with straight, parallel, or opposed lines. This site was named the Edna Smith site (P–8) in Mr Whiteside’s journal.
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