FOREWORD 



The following report was written in 1953-54. During the 6-year 

 lapse between writing and publication, several papers have been pub- 

 lished which duplicate, augment, or disagree with some of the concepts 

 expressed here. It would have been desirable to rewrite several pas- 

 sages before going to press, but for several reasons that was not 

 possible and I was faced with the problem of weeding out duplication 

 and adding certain explanatory notes at the galley-proof stage. Since 

 the cost of extensive revisions would have been prohibitive, I have 

 resorted to the device of inserting comments here and there, in the form 

 of footnotes, where the text might be confusing with respect to other 

 publications which have appeared since this one was written, or where 

 additional amplification was needed. The added comments are marked 

 with asterisks (*) and are labeled "Author's note." 



Many of the pottery and projectile-point types treated here had not 

 been defined in print when this paper was written. Since then all of 

 the types, except the two tentative pottery types Antioch Engraved 

 and Higgins Engraved, have been described in detail in "An Intro- 

 ductory Handbook of Texas Archaeology" (Suhm et al., 1954), and 

 some of the descriptions have been further amplified by Clarence H. 

 Webb in "The Belcher Mound, a Stratified Caddoan Site in Caddo 

 Parish, Louisiana" (1959). 



March 1960. 



Edward B. Jelks. 



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