The D. W. Moye site (41JP3) was recorded by Gus E. Arnold in June 1940 as part of the WPA archaeological survey of East Texas. The site, estimated to cover ca. 2 acres, is located on an alluvial terrace of the Angelina River (Figure 1), at the far southern end of the Caddo archaeological area in the East Texas Pineywoods.
During the 1940 archaeological survey of the landform, Arnold collected a substantial sample of ceramic vessel sherds from the surface of the site (see below). He also recovered a few chipped stone tools

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Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State Volume 2017 Article 7 2017 The Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Assemblage from the D. W. Moye Site (41JP3) on the Angelina River, Jasper County, Texas Timothy K. Perttula Center for Regional Heritage Research, Stephen F. Austin State University, tkp4747@aol.com Follow this and additional works at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita  Part of the American Material Culture Commons, Archaeological Anthropology Commons, Environmental Studies Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other Arts and Humanities Commons, Other History of Art, Architecture, and Archaeology Commons, and the United States History Commons Tell us how this article helped you. Repository Citation Perttula, Timothy K. (2017) "The Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Assemblage from the D. W. Moye Site (41JP3) on the Angelina River, Jasper County, Texas," Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: Vol. 2017 , Article 7. https://doi.org/10.21112/ita.2017.1.7 ISSN: 2475-9333 Available at: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2017/iss1/7 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by SFA ScholarWorks. It has been accepted for inclusion in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State by an authorized editor of SFA ScholarWorks. For more information, please contact cdsscholarworks@sfasu.edu. The Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Assemblage from the D. W. Moye Site (41JP3) on the Angelina River, Jasper County, Texas Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License. This article is available in Index of Texas Archaeology: Open Access Gray Literature from the Lone Star State: https://scholarworks.sfasu.edu/ita/vol2017/iss1/7 Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology, Volume 71, 2017The Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Assemblage ???????????? ?? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Timothy K. PerttulaIntroduction The D. W. Moye site (41JP3) was recorded by Gus E. Arnold in June 1940 as part of the WPA archaeological survey of East Texas. The site, estimated to cover ca. 2 acres, is located on an alluvial terrace of the Angelina River (Figure 1), at the far southern end of the Caddo archaeological area in the East Texas Pineywoods.Figure 1. The location of the D. W. Moye site (41JP3) in East Texas.92 Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology 71 (2017) During the 1940 archaeological survey of the landform, Arnold collected a substantial sample of ceramic vessel sherds from the surface of the site (see below). He also recovered a few chipped stone tools.Ceramic Assemblage The ceramic assemblage from the D. W. Moye site includes sherds from both Mossy Grove Wood-??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????site (n=48) are from Goose Creek Plain, var. ?????????? sandy paste rim (n=4) and body (n=44) sherds. The ancestral Caddo ceramic wares include sherds from grog-tempered and bone-tempered vessels, both plain and decorated (Table 1). Approximately 94.3 percent of the sherds are from grog-tempered ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????Table 1. Ancestral Caddo ceramic wares at the D. W. Moye site._________________________________________________________________________________________Ware Grog-tempered Bone-tempered N_________________________________________________________________________________________Plain 101 9 110Utility 100 3 103Fine 17 1 18_________________________________________________________________________________________Totals 218 13 231_________________________________________________________________________________________? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????-blage is 0.91, and 83 percent of the decorated sherds are from utility ware vessels (see Table 1). Other ??????????????????????????????????? ?? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????and the brushed/other wet paste sherd ratio of 0.39. Sherds from utility ware vessels with incised decorative elements comprise approximately 50 percent of the decorated sherds in the D. W. Moye site assemblage (Table 2). Another 28 percent of the decorated sherds have brushed and brushed-incised decorative elements, followed by punctated (15.5 percent), incised-punctated (4.9 percent), and grooved (1.9 percent). Only 12.5 percent of the decorated sherds are from engraved vessels, and 4.9 percent are from vessels with trailed decorative elements.Table 2. Decorative methods and elements in the ancestral Caddo ceramic assemblage from the D. W. Moye site._________________________________________________________________________________________Decorative method/ Rim Body NDecorative element_________________________________________________________________________________________Utility WareBrushedhorizontal brushed - 2 2parallel brushed - 25 25vertical brushed 1 - 1Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology 71 (2017) 93Table 2. Decorative methods and elements in the ancestral Caddo ceramic assemblage from the D. W. Moye site._________________________________________________________________________________________Decorative method/ Rim Body NDecorative element_________________________________________________________________________________________Utility Ware, cont.Brushed-Incisedvertical incised lines above horizontal brushing marks - 1 1Groovedstraight grooved lines - 2 2Inciseddiagonal incised lines 3 1 4diagonal opposed incised lines - 4 4horizontal incised lines 4 - 4opposed incised lines - 5 5parallel incised lines - 28 28straight incised line - 4 4vertical incised lines - 2 2Incised-Punctatedcurvilinear incised zone and tool punctated rows 1 - 1?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ?? ?horizontal and diagonal incised lines, and curvilinear 1 - 1  incised zone with circular punctations??????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ?? ?Punctated????????????????????????? ?? ??? ??linear tool punctated rows - 2 2tool punctated rows 1 2 3Fine WareEngravedconcentric circle engraved el. - 1 1cross-hatched engraved zone 1 1 2curvilinear and diagonal engraved lines, and excised 1 - 1  triangle on curvilinear linediagonal engraved lines 1 - 1excised bracket and zone - 1 1horizontal and diagonal engraved lines - 1 1parallel engraved lines - 1 1parallel and opposed engraved lines - 1 1rectilinear hatched engraved zone - 2 2straight engraved line - 1 1vertical and concentric semi-circle engraved lines - 1 1  and excised semi-circle94 Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology 71 (2017)Table 2. Decorative methods and elements in the ancestral Caddo ceramic assemblage from the D. W. Moye site, cont._________________________________________________________________________________________Decorative method/ Rim Body NDecorative element_________________________________________________________________________________________Fine Ware, cont.Trailedhorizontal and circular trailed lines - 1 1parallel trailed lines - 3 3straight trailed line - 1 1_________________________________________________________________________________________Totals 14 107 121_________________________________________________________________________________________? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????everted rims. The rims have shallow horizontal grooves (Marceaux 2011:140-141). Lindsey Grooved ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? The most distinctive of the sherds from incised vessels have diagonal opposed decorative elements (Figure 2a), similar to Maydelle Incised vessels, and sherds with nested diagonal opposed incised ele-ments (Figure 2b). The sherds with incised-punctated decorative elements are likely from Pineland Punc-???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????????????????? ??????????????????????????????????Incised sherds and vessels occur in both Middle Caddo (ca. A.D. 1200-1400/1450) and Late Caddo (ca. ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????utility wares are most abundant in later Middle Caddo period components estimated to date from ca. A.D. 1300-1400/1450, and least common in post-A.D. 1400/1450 Late Caddo period components.? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????include cross-hatched engraved zones, either in panels, in panel dividers, or in large bands oriented in several directions on the rim (Marceaux 2011:154). Other engraved sherds have geometric decorative el-ements, including diagonal lines and parallel and opposed lines (Figure 3a), as well as hatched engraved zones and concentric circles. One rim sherd in the assemblage has diagonal and curvilinear engraved elements, with a large excised pendant triangle on the curvilinear line (see Figure 3c), while another has a broad excised bracket. The most distinctive engraved sherd has vertical and concentric circle elements around an excised semi-circle (see Fig-?????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? Five sherds have trailed decorative elements (see Figure 3e), including parallel trailed lines and cir-cular and horizontal trailed lines. These sherds are likely from Keno Trailed vessels.Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology 71 (2017) 95?????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ?????????????????????????????incised-punctated.?????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????????????????? ?? ?? ????????????????????????????????????96 Journal of Northeast Texas Archaeology 71 (2017)Lithic Assemblage? ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ??????????????????????????????????blade fragment, and the second is a parallel-stemmed form, probably an Alba point, made from a local brown chert. The blade on this point has been serrated and resharpened.Summary and Conclusions The D. W. Moye site (41JP3) was recorded by Gus Arnold in June 1940, during the course of the WPA-sponsored archaeological survey of East Texas. The site is on an alluvial terrace of the Angelina River in the southernmost part of the Caddo archaeological area in East Texas.   Arnold collected a wide variety of ceramic vessel sherds (n=279) from the plowed surface of the site. About 17 percent are sandy paste Goose Creek Plain, var. ?????????? sherds from a Mossy Grove (ca. 500 B.C.-A.D. 800) occupation. The remainder of the sherds are from ancestral Caddo occupations. Galan (2003) described another assemblage of ancestral Caddo sherds, with brushed decorative elements, from 41JP154 in the Neches River basin at Lake Steinhagen. The one Holly Fine Engraved sherd in the collection and a few other engraved sherds with diagonal ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ????????????????????????????????????????Caddo period (ca. A.D. 1000-1200), but the principal Caddo occupation likely took place well after ca. ???????????????????????????????????? ??????????????????? ?????????????????????????????? ?? ???????????-semblage include sherds from Lindsey Grooved and King Engraved vessels, and the presence of several ??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????from the site, especially the proportion of brushed sherds in the assemblage (28.2 percent), its brushed/??????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????? ????????????????????????????????????????????????? ???????cluster (Group VIII) has much lower proportions of brushed sherds (30.4 percent) and more equitable ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????? ?????????????????????????????????? ???-lina river, is not known.Acknowledgments Thanks to Marybeth Tomka for access to the collections from the D. 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