Bifacial Blades — — — — — 1 — — 1 — — 2
Worked Nodules — — 1 1 2 — 1 1 6
Chipped Stone Drills — — 1 1
Fragmentary chipped
St. Arts. 1 — — 1 — — — — 1 3
Milling Stones — — — — — — 1 1
Pitted Stones — — 1 — — — — — 2 3
Grooved Stones — — — — — — — — 1 — 1 — 2
Ground Stone Fragments — — — — — — — — — — 1 1 — — — — — — — — — 1 3
TOTALS 62 50 119 3 17 4 16 14 34 21 55 3 36 47 27 42 11 13 2 3 1 10 20 610
Summary and Discussion
Excavations at the Harroun Site in Upshur County, Texas, revealed
abundant evidence of a Fulton Aspect occupation related to four small
mounds on the floodplain of Cypress Creek. An earlier pre-mound
occupation was indicated by the presence of a few scattered artifacts
and stone chips buried as deeply as four feet below the surface of the
floodplain. Remains of the pre-mound occupation are very sparse,
however, and it is not possible to make an accurate statement of its
character. The predominance of stone chips and crude stone artifacts
suggests Archaic affiliation, but Fulton Aspect sherds also occurred
well down in the floodplain and no pure Archaic zones were found.
The internal structure of each of the four mounds was determined in some
detail. Beneath Mound A, the smallest one, was an extended burial of an
adolescent male. Offerings associated with the burial were a Perdiz
arrow point, a small carinated bowl, and a bottle with an expanding
neck. Both vessels are of the Ripley Engraved type. The grave had been
dug from the bottom of a broad, shallow pit excavated in the surface of
the floodplain; the mound had then been erected over the grave.
A prepared clay hearth in the middle of the mound fill indicated that
Mound A had been built in two stages. However, the uneroded condition of
the hearth and the absence of a discernible break between the upper and
lower portions of the mound disallow the possibility of an appreciable
lapse of time between the two construction stages. Since the mound fill
contained a quantity of cultural refuse, it must have been taken from a
nearby area of fairly heavy occupation. The floodplain near Mound A was
tested by means of trenches and small pits, but the assumed occupation
area was not discovered.
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