The Taylor Site (41RK36) and 41RK31 on Martin Creek in Rusk County, Texas

In the early 1970s, the Texas Archeological Survey at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin completed archaeological investigations in advance of the construction of Martin Lake by Texas Utilities Services, Inc. on Martin Creek in the Sabine River basin (Figure 1). Martin Creek is a northward-flowi...

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Main Author: Perttula, Timothy K.
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Published: SFA ScholarWorks 2019
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Online Access:https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2019/iss1/42
https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2535&context=ita
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Summary:In the early 1970s, the Texas Archeological Survey at The University of Texas (UT) at Austin completed archaeological investigations in advance of the construction of Martin Lake by Texas Utilities Services, Inc. on Martin Creek in the Sabine River basin (Figure 1). Martin Creek is a northward-flowing tributary of the Sabine River. These investigations included an archaeological survey with limited test excavations (McDonald 1972), and then more extensive excavations at five ancestral Caddo sites (Clark and Ivey 1974), most particularly the Musgano site (41RK19) (Figure 2) (Clark and Ivey 1974; Perttula 2014), a Middle Caddo period (ca. A.D. 1200-1400) settlement.