One sherd (Fig. 14, E) with punctation-filled incised panels is
unmistakably from a bowl of type Crockett Curvilinear Incised of the
Alto Focus, Gibson Aspect (Newell and Krieger, 1949: 98-101 and Fig.
36). This sherd has a straight rim with a squarish lip; the exterior was
smoothed before decorating and the interior is poorly smoothed.
Decoration consists of a portion of one curvilinear panel outlined with
incised lines and filled with small, crescentic punctations. Part of a
crack-lacing hole is retained on one edge of the sherd. This specimen
was found in a disturbed area at Mound B.
A sharply incurving rimsherd (Fig. 13, H) with four parallel incised
lines in the broad, flat lip is from a vessel which was not of
traditional Caddoan shape or decoration. It was found over four feet
deep in Zone IIb of the floodplain near Mound A. The incurving rim, the
flat lip, and the position of the incised lines are all quite similar to
styles of the Lower Mississippi Area—especially as exemplified by the
types Coles Creek Incised and Chase Incised (Ford, 1951: 74-77). Another
interesting feature of this sherd is a bright red slip which covers both
the interior and the exterior surfaces.
A second sherd (Fig. 13, I) with characteristically Lower Mississippi
design is also from Zone IIb of the floodplain. This sherd came from the
neck area of a jar and has portions of a decorated rim and a plain body.
The decoration consists of two sets of parallel lines crossing each
other at an angle so as to form a series of diamond-shaped elements.
Inside each diamond is a triangular punctation made with the corner of
an angular instrument. There is an abrupt decrease in wall thickness at
the bottom of the rim so that a typically Lower Mississippian
“overhanging line” effect is produced. In design and general execution
this sherd is similar to the type Beldeau Incised (Ford, 1951: 81-83) of
the Coles Creek period in the Lower Mississippi Area, but its paste
appears to be more in the Caddoan than in the Baytown tradition.
The 25 incised sherds not assignable to any specific type comprise five
rimsherds and 20 body sherds. Fifteen of the body sherds bear thin lines
sliced into the plastic clay with a sharp instrument; the other 10 were
incised with a blunt-tipped implement which gouged out, rather than
sliced, the lines. Two sherds (Fig. 14, G) have a horizontal row of
closely spaced punctations in the neck area. Of the five rimsherds, one
has three widely spaced, horizontal, incised lines; three (Fig. 14, F)
have a design of widely spaced, cross hatched incised lines; the fifth
bears traces of two horizontal incised lines on the lower part of the
rim above a plain body. Some of the smaller body sherds could have come
from Pease Brushed-Incised vessels and the three rimsherds with cross
hatched design could well be from Maydelle Incised vessels.
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