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Diuikin sherds at Knight's Bluff and perhaps some of those from 

 the Bossier Focus sites investigated by Webb, may be from Pease 

 vessels.) Thus Haley Engraved is the only Gibson Aspect pottery 

 type that may be resident, and it is at best only a minor resident 

 type. 



Pottery types, then, would seem to indicate that the Knight's Bluff 

 Village is affiliated, by and large, with the Fulton Aspect. Further 

 support of that supposition lies in the presence of some shell-tempered 

 pottery (which is thought to have been introduced after the disap- 

 pearance of the Gibson Aspect) , two arrow points of the types Maud 

 and Bassett (Maud having been identified with the Texarkana Focus, 

 and Bassett with the Texarkana, Belcher, and Bossier Foci), and 

 the general character of the site. 



On the other hand, 15 of the 16 pipe fragments, representing at 

 least 6 different pipes, are of the long-stemmed, thin-walled variety, 

 thought to have disappeared by Fulton Aspect times. In addition, 

 two Haley Engraved bottles occurred in burials, and two others may 

 be related to Haley Focus forms. Furthermore, 13 Pennington Punc- 

 tated-Incised sherds and 6 sherds of Crockett Curvilinear Incised 

 were found, several of each type being in situ in the compact house 

 floor midden in evident primary association with the principal resi- 

 dent types. Pennington is considered peculiarly an Alto Focus type, 

 while Crockett is shared by the Alto and Haley Foci and is closely 

 related to a Spiro Focus type, Keota Curvilinear Incised. 



But, disregarding for the moment any suggestion of affiliation or 

 contemporaneity with the Gibson Aspect, let us attempt to identify 

 the Knight's Bluff material specifically with one or another of the 

 Fulton Aspect Foci. In the list above correlating resident pottery 

 types to foci, it will be observed that Texarkana Focus appears 10 

 times, Glendora Focus 3 times, McCurtain Focus 3 times. Belcher 

 Focus 2 times, Bossier Focus 2 times, Mid-Ouachita Focus 1 time, 

 Frankston Focus 1 time, and Titus Focus 1 time. First of all, 

 Glendora, McCurtain, Mid-Ouachita, Frankston, and Titus can be 

 eliminated because all of their types that are present at Knight's 

 Bluff are types shared with the Texarkana Focus, the really unique 

 and diagnostic types of all five of these foci being absent. 



All pottery types belonging to the Texarkana complex are present 

 at Knight's Bluff, but three of them — Avery Engraved, Simms En- 

 graved, and Foster Trailed-Incised — are represented by only a hand- 

 ful of sherds. Barkman Engraved, McKinney Plain, and Nash 

 Neck Banded, the other three Texarkana pottery types, are all major 

 resident types at Knight's Bluff. The case for assigning the Knight's 

 Bluff Village to the Texarkana Focus, then, is fairly strong, but 

 would require enlargement of the Texarkana type inventory to in- 

 clude Pease Brushed-Incised and Baytown-like as major types. And 



