Abstract
In the early 1970s, the Texas Archeological Survey at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin completed archaeological investigations in advance of the construction of Martin Lake by Texas Utilities Services, Inc. on Martin Creek in the Sabine River basin (Figure 1). Martin Creek is a northward-flowing tributary of the Sabine River. These investigations included an archaeological survey with limited test excavations (McDonald 1972), and then more extensive excavations at five ancestral Caddo sites (Clark and Ivey 1974), most particularly the Musgano site (41RK19) (Figure 2) (Clark and Ivey 1974; Perttula 2014), a Middle Caddo period (ca. A.D. 1200-1400) settlement.
Highlights
In the early 1970s, the Texas Archeological Survey at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin completed archaeological investigations in advance of the construction of Martin Lake by Texas Utilities Services, Inc. on Martin Creek in the Sabine River basin (Figure 1)
The Taylor site (41RK36) and 41RK31 were among a number of archaeological sites investigated in the early 1970s by the Texas Archeological Survey at Martin Lake on Martin Creek in East Texas (McDonald 1972; Clark and Ivey 1974)
The investigations consisted of pedestrian survey and limited hand excavations at both sites, and several machine-excavated trenches at the Taylor site
Summary
In the early 1970s, the Texas Archeological Survey at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin completed archaeological investigations in advance of the construction of Martin Lake by Texas Utilities Services, Inc. on Martin Creek in the Sabine River basin (Figure 1). Martin Creek is a northward-flowing tributary of the Sabine River These investigations included an archaeological survey with limited test excavations (McDonald 1972), and more extensive excavations at five ancestral Caddo sites (Clark and Ivey 1974), most the Musgano site (41RK19) (Figure 2) (Clark and Ivey 1974; Perttula 2014), a Middle Caddo period In 1972, two 1 x 1 m test pits (TP) were excavated at the Taylor site by McDonald (1972:16), both units on the west side of Trammel’s Trace (Figure 3). One of these test pits encountered a 10-cm thick zone of possible midden sediments and ash. Renewed investigations in 1974 identified a single post hole feature in Unit N214/E100 (Clark and Ivey 1974:64)
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