Data Recovery Investigations

Murvaul Creek Site (41PN175), Panola County, Texas

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9366551
AutoresArlo McKee (autor de correspondencia), C Frederick (0000-0002-5955-2411), Timothy K Perttula (0000-0002-0799-1332), Timothy Perttula, Robert Z Selden (0000-0002-1789-8449), Leslie L Bush (0000-0003-2681-6414), Leslie Bush, Leonard Kemp (0000-0002-9080-8817), Brittney Gregory, Chad Yost, Chad L Yost (0000-0002-8867-7854), Linda Scott Cummings (0000-0002-3798-3026), Linda Cummings, Jeffrey R Ferguson, Jeffrey Ferguson, Michael D Glascock (0000-0003-0686-7556), Michael Glascock, Steve A Tomka (0000-0002-4265-119X), Steve Tomka, Leslie G Cecil, Leslie Cecil, Caroline A Masiello (0000-0003-2102-6229), Caroline Masiello, Xiao‐Dong Gao (0000-0002-8575-5095), Xiaodong Gao (0000-0002-4954-8830), Christopher Goodmaster, Virgil Beasley
Año2015
Volumen2015
Número1
Fecha de publicación2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaIndex of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 2475-9333 • E-ISSN: 2475-9333
EditorialR.W. Steen Library, SFASU (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21112/ita.2015.1.5
OpenAlexW2547938519
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas12

This report summarizes the archeological findings of the 2011 data recovery investigations at the Murvaul Creek site, 41PN175, in far northeastern Texas in Panola County. The site is located along Farm-to-Market Road (FM) 10 approximately 1 mile north of Gary, Texas (Figure 1). Geo-Marine, Inc. (GMI), performed this work under contract to the Texas Department of Transportation, Environmental Affairs Division (TxDOT ENV) under the Texas Antiquities Permit Number 5879 (Work Authorization [WA] 579 06 SA005; WA 590 08 SA005; CSJ:1222-01-014; Geo-Marine project numbers 22005.00.06 and 22005.00.09). The fieldwork for this project was conducted in advance of the planned widening of FM 10 that was to replace three bridges and a culvert over Murvaul Creek with a larger structure and shift the road approximately 26 meters (m; 85 feet [ft]) to the east. Since the planned improvements of FM 10 would result in the loss of information at the Murvaul Creek site—a site that was recommended eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) and for designation as a State Antiquities Landmark (SAL; formerly State Archeological Landmark)—the current data recovery investigations were initiated. The data recovery investigations were conducted between February 7, 2011, and April 3, 2011. During this period, the fieldwork was conducted in several stages: site clearing, geophysical survey, 50-x-50-centimeter (cm) excavations, block excavations, and mechanical site scraping. With the exception of the site clearing stage, the results of each of the fieldwork stages are reviewed individually in this report. The investigations resulted in the documentation of numerous features that appeared to have been the remains of a small Middle-to-Late Caddo settlement or farmstead situated on the edge of an interfluve south of the Murvaul Creek floodplain. Additionally, materials pertaining to the Archaic period were documented across the site. Although the site has been intensively studied within the TxDOT right-of-way (ROW), both the current investigations and previous work were limited to the ROW (cf. Cliff and Perttula 2002). Hence, the site is very likely larger than has been adequately documented

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