scholarly journals Ceramic Types from Late Prehistoric Sites along the East Fork of the Trinity River

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilson Crook ◽  
Mark Houghston
Keyword(s):  
Direct Evidence ◽  
Red River ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Ceramic Assemblage ◽  
Trinity River ◽  
Late Prehistoric Period ◽  
Prehistoric Culture ◽  
The Trinity

Ceramics are one of the key diagnostic artifacts that define the Late Prehistoric culture of the peoples that lived along the East Fork of the Trinity and its tributaries. We are completing a 42 year re evaluation of the Late Prehistoric period of the area and have st udied nearly 32,000 artifacts, of which over 10,200 are ceramic sherds. From this study, 20 distinct ceramic types have been recognized. Plain ware, both shell tempered and sandy paste/grog tempered, are the predominant ceramic types present, comprising ov er 90 percent of the total ceramic assemblage. While there is little direct evidence for indigenous manufacture, the abundance of these types suggests they were produced locally. Lesser quantities of decorated ware of distinct Caddo ceramic types from the Red River and East Texas suggest they are likely the product of exchange. There is also a small amount of Puebloan material indicative of a longer distance exchange.

Horned Owl Cave, Wyoming

1964 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 360-368 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gebhard ◽  
George A. Agogino ◽  
Vance Haynes
Keyword(s):  
Great Plains ◽  
Northern Great Plains ◽  
Material Objects ◽  
Late Prehistoric ◽  
Bone Tools ◽  
Disturbed Condition ◽  
Late Prehistoric Period ◽  
Prehistoric Culture ◽  
Figure Drawings ◽  
Late Series

AbstractHorned Owl Cave in the northern Laramie Mountains of Wyoming has provided a wide array of normally perishable artifacts in association with pictographs. Material objects recovered from the cave include fragments of atlatls, darts, shaft feathers, arrowshafts, blunt arrows, bark, weaving, bone tools, pottery, and lithic objects. The disturbed condition of the fill of the cave prevented a controlled stratigraphy, but typologically the material falls within the Late Middle culture and the Late Prehistoric culture phases of the northern Great Plains. The pictographs have been divided into three styles: an early red-figure style, a shield-figure style, and a final and probably late series of black-figure drawings. It is suggested that the red-figure drawings were a product of the last phases of the Late Middle culture, or perhaps the early phase of the Late Prehistoric culture. The shield style and the black-figure style would seem to belong to the Late Prehistoric period.

Four new crayfishes (Decapoda: Cambaridae) of the genus Orconectes from Texas

Zootaxa ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 2626 (1) ◽  
pp. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
DANIEL P. JOHNSON
Keyword(s):  
Colorado River ◽  
River System ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Red River ◽  
Central Projection ◽  
East Texas ◽  
Small Section ◽  
Trinity River ◽  
Central Texas ◽  
Small Tributary

Four new crayfishes of the genus Orconectes from Texas are described, including Orconectes (Hespericambarus) cyanodigitus, Orconectes (Gremicambarus) castaneus, Orconectes (Buannulifictus) occidentalis and Orconectes (B.) texanus. O. cyanodigitus, of the Red River system, is most closely aligned with O. deanae and O. difficilis. It is distinguished from the former by its gonopod's much shorter, less recurved central projection; and from the latter by its much longer mesial process. O. castaneus, of a small section of the Colorado River system, is most similar to O. nais and O. palmeri longimanus. Its obliterated areola, longer gonopod processes, annulus ventralis structure and color distinguish it from the former; while its shorter gonopod processes, annulus ventralis structure, and color pattern distinguish it from the latter. O. p. longimanus, heretofore considered widely ranging in Texas, is split into three closely allied taxa, with its Texas range reduced to the Red River system and a small tributary of Trinity River; O. texanus occupying most of the remainder of east Texas, including the Sabine, Neches, Trinity, San Jacinto and Navasota basins; and O. occidentalis occupying the Colorado, Guadalupe, Medina, Frio and Nueces systems of central Texas. O. texanus is distinguished from O. p. longimanus by its gonopod's more recurved processes and more strongly tapered central projection, annulus ventralis structure and color pattern; and from O. occidentalis by its annulus ventralis configuration and color pattern. O. occidentalis is distinguished from O. p. longimanus primarily by its annulus ventralis structure and color pattern. Evidence of the extirpation of O. p. longimanus from its type locality is presented.

scholarly journals The Doug Martin Site (41AN88), a Late Caddo Period Frankston Phase Settlement in the Trinity River Basin in East Texas

2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Trinity River ◽  
Post Oak ◽  
The University ◽  
Work Done ◽  
The Trinity

The Doug Martin site (41AN88) is a Late Caddo period Frankston phase settlement on a southern-flowing tributary to the Trinity River in the Post Oak Savannah of East Texas (Figure 1). Several avocational archaeologists from the Palestine, Texas, area, principally including Clyde Amick, worked at the site in the early 1980s, and donated a collection of artifacts from the site, along with some information about the work done there, to the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL) in November 1985.

scholarly journals The Newt Smith Site (41HE78), Henderson County, Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Trinity River ◽  
Post Oak ◽  
The University ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Habitation Site

The Newt Smith site (41HE78) is probably an ancestral Caddo cemetery and habitation site in the Coon Creek valley of the Post Oak Savannah in the Trinity River basin in East Texas. In April 1931, a Mrs. A. G. Hughes of Poynor, Texas, donated a single Caddo vessel to The University of Texas. That vessel is in the collections of the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL).

scholarly journals The Caddo Occupation of the L. B. Miller Farm (41HE4/55) in the Post Oak Savanna and Trinity River Basin in East Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Basin ◽  
Research Laboratory ◽  
Oak Savanna ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Trinity River ◽  
Post Oak ◽  
The University ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Habitation Site

The L. B. Miller Farm site (41HE4/55) is a Late Caddo period Frankston phase Caddo habitation site and small cemetery on an upland landform (400 ft. amsl) in the Coon Creek-Catfish Creek drainage in the Post Oak Savannah of the Trinity River basin. The ancestral Caddo artifact collections from the site at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin (TARL) include four vessels from a burial feature, sherds from two unreconstructed ceramic jars found in habitation contexts, and 178 ceramic sherds from midden deposits.

scholarly journals The 7-J Ranch Site (41HO4) in the Post Oak Savannah of East Texas, Houston County, Texas

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy K. Perttula
Keyword(s):  
River Channel ◽  
Woodland Period ◽  
East Texas ◽  
University Of Texas ◽  
Trinity River ◽  
Post Oak ◽  
The University ◽  
The Trinity ◽  
Habitation Site ◽  
Organic Remains

The 7-J Ranch site (41HO4) is a multi-component Woodland period and Early Caddo period habitation site on a natural rise in the Trinity River floodplain in the Post Oak Savannah of East Texas. It is in an area of the middle reaches of the Trinity River where Woodland period sites (dating from ca. 500 B.C. to A.D. 800) are notably common on alluvial landforms, in particular Holocene Terrace-1 and alluvial rise landforms. The site appears to be a midden mound built up from the accumulations of habitation debris along the edge of the modern floodplain and the modern river channel. The midden mound is between 2-3 m in height and may cover as much as a 90 x 45 m area. The midden soil has been described as a black sandy soil with abundant amounts of preserved organic remains. The 7-J Ranch site has received no excavations since it was first recorded in the early 1960s, but several surface collections have been obtained from the site by University of Texas archaeologists in 1960, 1962, and 1977. These collections are curated at the Texas Archeological Research Laboratory at The University of Texas at Austin.

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