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Archaeological Anthropology

2018

Cherokee County

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Results From Magnetic Gradient Surveys At The Walnut Branch (41ce47), Ross I (41ce485), And Ross Ii (41ce486) Sites In Cherokee County, Texas, Duncan Mckinnon, Kevin Stingley Jan 2018

Results From Magnetic Gradient Surveys At The Walnut Branch (41ce47), Ross I (41ce485), And Ross Ii (41ce486) Sites In Cherokee County, Texas, Duncan Mckinnon, Kevin Stingley

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The use of magnetic gradient surveys at Caddo sites located throughout the Caddo people’s ancestral lands within the current areas of East Texas, Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, and eastern Oklahoma has been very successful in the elucidation and mapping of the distributional characteristics of buried cultural features. In March 2018, three Caddo sites in East Texas (41CE47, 41CE485, 41CE486) were surveyed and the results add to the growing corpus of remote sensing spatial data. The recent survey work was conducted in order to assess the nature of sub-surface preservation of archaeological deposits in different environmental and historical contexts and to …


The R. F. Wallace Farm (41ce20) And W. T. Brooks Farm (41ce18) Sites In The Neches River Basin, Cherokee County, Texas, Timothy K. Perttula Jan 2018

The R. F. Wallace Farm (41ce20) And W. T. Brooks Farm (41ce18) Sites In The Neches River Basin, Cherokee County, Texas, Timothy K. Perttula

Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State

The R. F. Wallace Farm (41CE20) and W. T. Brooks Farm (41CE18) sites are ancestral Caddo sites in the Neches River basin in the East Texas Pineywoods, not far to the north and northwest, respectively, from the well-known Caddo village and mound center at the George C. Davis site (41CE19). Both sites are on tributaries to the Neches River: the R. F. Wallace Farm site is on Bowles Creek, and the W. T. Brooks Farm site is on Box’s Creek.