Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Vessels from Sites in Nacogdoches and Panola Counties in East Texas

• Main Author: Perttula, Timothy K.
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SFA ScholarWorks 2017
• Subjects: American Southeast; Texas; Caddo; American Material Culture; American Studies; Anthropology; Archaeological Anthropology; Environmental Studies; History; History of Art; Architecture; and Archaeology; Other American Studies; Other Arts and Humanities; Other History of Art; United States History; Sabine River; Archeological Survey
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2017/iss1/53; https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1818&context=ita

The ancestral Caddo ceramic vessels discussed in this article are from four different sites in Nacogdoches and Panola counties, in East Texas. The one site in Nacogdoches County, namely the Gatewood site (41NA3) is located in the Angelina River basin, while the three Panola County sites (41PN5, 41PN15, and H. L. English Farm) are on tributaries that flow into the Sabine River. The Gatewood site is on the west bank of Attoyac Bayou, a major tributary of the Angelina River basin, in the easternmost part of Nacogdoches County. In 1939, a road grader working along a county road had exposed an ancestral Caddo burial feature with skeletal remains and three ceramic vessels. Gus Arnold, working on the University of Texas Archeological survey of East Texas, recorded the site and collected one of the ceramic vessels; no details were obtained on the other two vessels in the feature.