Middle Caddo Whole Vessels from the Ferguson Site (3HE63)

• Main Author: Chowdhury, Pritam
• Format: Text
• Language: unknown
• Published: SFA ScholarWorks 2018
• Subjects: American Southeast; 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; Ferguson; Archeological Survey
• Online Access: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2018/iss1/11; https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2212&context=ita

The Ferguson site (3HE63) is a Caddo ceremonial center in Hempstead County, Arkansas. The Arkansas Archeological Survey and Arkansas Archeological Society excavated Ferguson between 1972 and 1974, under the direction of Dr. Frank Schambach. The site has a middle Caddo Haley phase (A.D. 1200- 1400) component consisting of two mounds, several structures, and a small cemetery area, set atop a 2-acre Woodland period Fourche Maline village. One of the mounds included several elite Caddo shaft graves rich with ceramic artifacts. My recent research with Ferguson site collections included a metric and stylistic analysis of whole vessel ceramics from the Haley phase Caddo components. This paper reports on some results of this inventory and analysis.