Abstract
The Steck site (41WD529) is a 15th to early 16th century A.D. Caddo settlement situated in the far western margins of the modern Pineywoods of East Texas, in the upper Sabine River basin in Wood County. The site is specifcally situated in the uplands more than 12m above the Dry Creek foodplain, in the upper part of the Lake Fork Creek drainage basin. Two natural springs emerge from the Queen City Eocene formation immediately below the site. There are two midden deposits at the Steck site, as well as evidence for structures arranged around an open plaza in a small community. The archaeological investigations reported on in this article took place in 1976 in a ca. 9 m diameter trash midden deposit along the edge of the upland landform; the trash midden was ca. 30 cm in thickness. Available notes and analysis records have been used to reconstruct what was accomplished at the site and the kind and range of recovered artifacts.
Highlights
AND SETTING The Steck site (41WD529) is a 15th to early 16th century A.D
There are two midden deposits at the Steck site, as well as evidence for structures arranged around an open plaza in a small community
When it was learned by an archaeological crew from Southern Methodist University (SMU) working on sites in the nearby Lake Fork Reservoir that the landowner was planning on removing more of the midden by widening a driveway to a trailer house, limited excavations were undertaken on the east side of the driveway in the trash midden
Summary
AND SETTING The Steck site (41WD529) is a 15th to early 16th century A.D. Caddo settlement situated in the far western margins of the modern Pineywoods of East Texas, in the upper Sabine River basin in Wood County (Figure 1). The landowner of the Steck site had at one time built a driveway through the midden deposits When it was learned by an archaeological crew from Southern Methodist University (SMU) working on sites in the nearby Lake Fork Reservoir (see Bruseth et al 1977; Bruseth and Perttula 1980, 1981) that the landowner was planning on removing more of the midden by widening a driveway to a trailer house, limited excavations were undertaken on the east side of the driveway in the trash midden. The midden at the Steck site contained a high density of ceramic sherds from broken and discarded plain ware, Àne ware, and utility ware vessels. The decorated sherds from the Steck site are dominated by sherds from engraved and red slipped Àne ware vessels (57.8 percent) (Table 1); they include sherds from carinated bowls, compound bowls, and bottles.
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