Recent Investigations at 41AN162, a Middle Caddo Site in East Texas: Implications for Late Mississippian Settlement-Subsistence Behavior and Precision Dating

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Recent investigations at 41AN162, sponsored by the Texas Department of Transportation, exposed and documented several features associated with Caddo ceramics in an upland, non-aggrading landform. Historic-period plowing and extensive bioturbation has resulted in substantial reworking of site sediments and associated archaeological remains. However, extensive high-resolution AMS radiocarbon dating of short-lived botanical remains, including maize, hickory, walnut, and cane, has produced an occupation profile that may reflect a single generation occupation. A single nearby feature slightly post-dates this occupation, suggesting shifting residential patterns. We review this site’s geoarcheological context, features, macrobotanical contents, and Bayesian age modeling of almost two dozen dates, and explore implications for Middle Caddo maize-based settlement-subsistence behavior as one of many regional patterns that defined Late Mississippian society in the American Southeast.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36500.0