The Womack Site (41LR1), an Ancestral Caddo Settlement on the Red River in Lamar County, Texas

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ID9338403
AuthorsTimothy K Perttula (0000-0002-0799-1332, Stephen F. Austin State University, corresponding author)
Year2015
Publication date2015-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueIndex of Texas Archaeology Open Access Grey Literature from the Lone Star State (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2475-9333 • E-ISSN: 2475-9333
PublisherR.W. Steen Library, SFASU (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.21112/.ita.2015.1.61
OpenAlexW2941392407
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited7

The Womack site (41LR1) is an ancestral Caddo settlement situated on an alluvial terrace in a horseshoe bend of the Red River in north central Lamar County in East Texas. Harris completed the analysis and study of their 1938-mid-1960s investigations at the site, but the findings from the earlier archaeological investigations conducted at the site by the University of Texas (UT) in 1931 have not been previously published. In this article I discuss the 1931 investigations by UT at the Womack site, and also summarize the character of the artifact assemblage recovered at the site during this work. Lastly, I consider the occupational character and settlement history of the Womack site—particularly its history of settlement by ancestral Caddo peoples—and define a Womack phase for the ca. A.D. 1690-1750 archeological components at the Womack, Sanders (41LR2), Goss Farm (41FN12), and Harling (41FN1) sites along the upper Red River and the Gilbert (41RA13) and Pearson (41RA5) sites in the upper Sabine River basin

Alluvium · Archaeology · Artifact (error · Assemblage (archaeology · Geography · Geomorphology · Settlement (finance · Terrace (agriculture · Archaeology and Natural History · Botanical Research and Applications · Botany, Ecology, and Taxonomy Studies · Geology

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