Abstract
The Dave Spencer site (41CP497) is an ancestral Caddo site in the Middle Lilly Creek valley in southwestern Camp County, Texas. It is situated on a lower upland ridge slope (350-355 feet amsl) about 200 m south of the current channel of Middle Lilly Creek. This creek is an eastward-flowing stream in the Little Cypress Creek basin. Robert L. Turner, Jr. identified the site some years ago, and obtained a surface collection from it. The analysis of the artifacts in that surface collection are the subject of this article.
Highlights
The Dave Spencer site (41 CP497) is an ancestral Caddo site in the Middle Lilly Creek valley in southwestem Camp County, Texas (Figure 1)
None of the decorated sherds can he definitely identified as belonging to one of the current East Texas Caddo ceramic types (e.g., Suhm and Jelks 1962), it is possible to determine the temporal affiliation of the Dave Spencer site by comparison with other known and/or radiocarbon-dated sites in the Big and Little Cypress Creek basins
The pre-A.D. 1200-1250 East Texas Caddo sites in the Big and Little Cypress Creek basins in East Texas comprise a distinctive assemblage of relatively simple straight and geometric designs on fine wares and utility wares, and curvilinear engraved and excised designs on bottles; the Dave Spencer site belongs to this cultural tradition
Summary
The Dave Spencer site (41 CP497) is an ancestral Caddo site in the Middle Lilly Creek valley in southwestem Camp County, Texas (Figure 1). It is situated on a lower upland ridge slope (350-355 feet amsl) about 200 m south of the current channel of Middle Lilly Creek. This creek is an eastward-flowing stream in the Little Cypress Creek basin. The location of the Dave Spencer site in Camp County in the East Texas Pineywoods. Jr. identified the site some years ago, and obtained a surface collection from it. The analysis of the artifacts in that surface collection are the subject of this article
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