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Dunkin Incised, late variant, Belcher Ridged, and the tentative types 

 Haley Engraved and Antioch Engraved would also have to be in- 

 cluded either as minor affiliates or as trade items. 



Factors for and against assignment of the Knight's Bluff Village 

 to either the Belcher or Bossier Focus, in sum, add up to much 

 weaker relationships in both cases than in the case of Texarkana 

 Focus; therefore, it hardly seems worthwhile to trace them in de- 

 tail here. 



The Knight's Bluff Village appears, then, to be essentially a com- 

 ponent of the Texarkana Focus, with the addition of two major 

 pottery types, Pease Brushed-Incised (also an integral type of the 

 Bossier Focus) and Bay town-like (related to types of the Lower 

 Mississippi Valley). Three pottery types of the Texarkana Focus — 

 Avery Engraved, Simms Engraved, and Foster Trailed-Incised — are 

 only sparsely represented. Krieger (oral communication) has ob- 

 served that Simms Engraved was probably adopted at a relatively 

 late date and did not reach full popularity until near the end of the 

 Texarkana Focus, after which it continued as a major type of the 

 Glendora Focus. Although possibly appearing earlier tlian Simms, 

 Avery seems to have reached its peak of popularity in northeastern 

 Texas with the Glendora Focus.* The history of Foster Trailed- 

 Incised is more obscure, but its development may well have culmi- 

 nated in a similar type, Keno Trailed, of common occurrence in 

 Glendora Focus components. 



Thus two of the three Texarkana types that are poorly represented 

 at the Knight's Bluff Village can be said to have appeared relatively 

 late in the Texarkana Focus, and the third type, Foster Trailed- 

 Incised, may have a similar temporal distribution. Therefore, it 

 seems likely that the Knight's Bluff Village represents a segment 

 in the earlier history of the Texarkana Focus. 



In support of an alinement with early Texarkana Focus are the 

 presence of long-stemmed clay pipes of Gibson Aspect form, which 

 probably are survivals not yet replaced by the short-stemmed elbow 

 pipes affiliated with later phases of the Texarkana Focus and the 

 Glendora Focus. Other possible survivals from the Gibson Aspect, 

 via the Haley Focus, are the types Haley Engraved and Crockett 

 Curvilinear Incised. Since the Bossier Focus is generally considered 

 to occupy a relatively early position in the Fulton Aspect, the pres- 

 ence in quantity of one of its major pottery types. Pease Brushed- 

 Incised, is further corroboration of a comparatively early placement 

 for the Knight's Bluff Village. 



One note of discord is injected by the apparent association of Alto 

 Focus type Pennington Punctated-Incised with the Knight's Bluff 



♦Author's note. Suhm et al. note the rare occurrence of both Simms and Avery with 

 European trade material, but state that the two types belong mainly to the late pre- 

 historic period. 



