Trends in Archaic and Woodland Period Use of the Middle Sabine River Basin Based on Dart Point Proportions

Timothy K Perttula,William L Young

doi:10.21112/.ita.2012.1.24

Timothy K Perttula, William L Young

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Abstract

In this article, we use the varying proportions of a large sample of Archaic and Woodland period dart points to explore trends in settlement and occupational intensity from ca. 10,000 to 1200 years B.P. in the Pineywoods and Post Oak Savannah of East Texas. These darts were collected from sites in Gregg, Harrison, Rusk, and Smith counties, Texas, mainly on sites in the middle reaches of the Sabine River basin.

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In this article, we use the varying proportions of a large sample of Archaic and Woodland period dart points to explore trends in settlement and occupational intensity from ca. 10,000 to 1200 years B.P. in the Pineywoods and Post Oak Savannah of East Texas (Figure 1)
POINT TYPES AND PERIOD ASSIGNMENTS For our purposes, the Archaic period in East Texas is deÀned as lasting from 10,000 years B.P. to approximately 2500 years B.P., with the Early Archaic dating from ca. 10,000-8000 years B.P. (8050-6050 B.C.), the Middle Archaic ranging from 8000-5000 years B.P. (6050-3050 B.C.), and the Late Archaic dating from 5000-2500 years B.P. (3050-550 B.C.)
Our proposed temporal ordering of dart points in the East Texas Archaic and Woodland periods draws Àrst upon the few available absolute dates from East Texas on Archaic sites, as well as the known sequences of dart points in surrounding regions, such as Southwest Arkansas (Schambach 1998; Trubitt 2009), Northwest and Northern Louisiana (Girard 2000; Girard et al 2011; Rees 2010; Saunders 2010), the Missouri Ozarks (Ray et al 2009), and Central Texas (Collins 1998; Collins et al 2011), and chronological periods of use offered by Turner and Hester (1999)

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We use the varying proportions of a large sample of Archaic and Woodland period dart points to explore trends in settlement and occupational intensity from ca. 10,000 to 1200 years B.P. in the Pineywoods and Post Oak Savannah of East Texas (Figure 1). (2012) "Trends in Archaic and Woodland Period Use of the Middle Sabine River Basin Based on Dart Point Proportions," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol 2012, Article 24.

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