Abstract
The 7-J Ranch site (41HO4) is a multi-component Woodland period and Early Caddo period habitation site on a natural rise in the Trinity River floodplain in the Post Oak Savannah of East Texas. It is in an area of the middle reaches of the Trinity River where Woodland period sites (dating from ca. 500 B.C. to A.D. 800) are notably common on alluvial landforms, in particular Holocene Terrace-1 and alluvial rise landforms. The site appears to be a midden mound built up from the accumulations of habitation debris along the edge of the modern floodplain and the modern river channel. The midden mound is between 2-3 m in height and may cover as much as a 90 x 45 m area. The midden soil has been described as a black sandy soil with abundant amounts of preserved organic remains. The 7-J Ranch site has received no excavations since it was first recorded in the early 1960s, but several surface collections have been obtained from the site by University of Texas archaeologists in 1960, 1962, and 1977. These collections are curated at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin.
Highlights
The 7-J Ranch site (41HO4) is a multi-component Woodland period and Early Caddo period habitation site on a natural rise in the Trinity RiYer Àoodplain in the 3ost OaN 6aYannah oI East Te[as ()iJure 1),t is in an area of the middle reaches of the Trinity River where Woodland period sites are notably common on alluvial landforms, in particular Holocene Terrace-1 and alluvial rise landforms (Perttula 2015; Perttula et al 2015).Blackland Prairie Pineywoods Post Oak Savannah Kilometers MilesCaddo Archaeological Area in East Texas 41HO436 Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology 66 (2016)The site appears to be a midden mound built up from the accumulations of habitation debris along the edge of the modern Àoodplain and the modern river channel
The midden mound in the Àoodplain of the Trinity River in Houston County, Texas, at the 7-J Ranch site appears to have accumulated between ca
Through time, beginning in the Woodland period, the Native American groups in this part of Texas became less mobile, as evidenced by the development of midden deposits on a number of habitation sites, and they developed distinctive territories within which diverse settlement and subsistence patterns began to fully develop
Summary
The 7-J Ranch site (41HO4) is a multi-component Woodland period and Early Caddo period habitation site on a natural rise in the Trinity RiYer Àoodplain in the 3ost OaN 6aYannah oI East Te[as ()iJure 1) ,t is in an area of the middle reaches of the Trinity River where Woodland period sites (dating from ca. 500 B.C. to A.D. 800) are notably common on alluvial landforms, in particular Holocene Terrace-1 and alluvial rise landforms (Perttula 2015; Perttula et al 2015).
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