Abstract
While there have been a few studies in recent years that have offered some interesting ideas about the lifeways of the Native Americans that occupied Northeast Texas during Archaic · times, most of what we know (or think we know) about the subject is based on limited data, and much of that data really is not of very good quality. For example, we think that Archaic peoples were nomadic hunter-gatherers who roamed the landscape, staying in one spot only for a few weeks or less until they had collected all the hickory nuts or hunted all the deer they could find there. In general, this notion is probably correct, but it does not present a very complete picture of their lifeways, and when you get down to it, it is not really based on much hard archaeological evidence.
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This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1998/iss1/37
While there have been a few studies in recent years that have offered some interesting ideas about the lifeways of the Native Americans that occupied Northeast Texas during Archaic times (e.g., Fields and Tomka 1993; Johnson 1989; Story 1990), most of what we know about the subject is based on limited data, and much of that data really is not of very good quality
As at the Jake Martin site in Upshur County (Davis and Davis 1960), Woodland and Caddoan components are not present, but the range of dart points recovered clearly indicates that multiple Archaic components are represented, and these kinds of sites are problematic as well
Summary
This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol1998/iss1/37. We see a handful of Archaic dart points coming off sites where the primary component is later.
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