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Table 2. — All artifacts from the Snipes Site — Continued 

 Cebamics — Continued 



Potsherds— Continued Number 



Simms Engraved 1 



Pease Brushed-Incised 1 



Cass Appliqued 1 



Pennington Punctated-Incised 1 



Crockett Curvilinear Incised 1 



Pennington or Crockett 1 



Holly, or Spiro, Fine Engraved 1 



Plain, indeterminate ' 155 



Brushed, indeterminate 22 



Incised, indeterminate 60 



Engraved, indeterminate 37 



Appliqued, indeterminate 3 



Punctated, indeterminate 3 



Miscellaneous, unclassified 12 



Long-stemmed, thin-walled pipes 1 



Chipped-stone abtifacts : 

 Dart points: 



Gary 10 



Ellis 1 



Yarbrough 1 



Plainview (?) 1 



Indeterminate 10 



Arrow points: 



Alba 7 



Indeterminate 4 



Small, crude blades 5 



Flake scrapers 4 



Small "picks" 1 



Small, unstemmed drills 5 



Indeterminate worked flint 4 



Ground- and polished-stone artifacts : 



Grinding slabs 1 



Manos 2 



Hones 1 



Polished hematite fragment 1 



Greenstone celt, oval in cross section (with burial No. 1) 1 



^Miscellaneous : 



Hammerstones 2 



Polished antler tips 1 



Worked mussel shell 1 



Total 1,205 



DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSIONS 



Principal occupation at the Snipes Site was by a group of people 

 closely allied with the Baytown Period of the Lower Mississippi 

 Valley. Caddoan pottery roughly contemporaneous with the Knight's 



Bluff and Sherwin components was also present, but its exact rela- 

 tionship to the Lower Mississippi occupation is not clear because of 

 the disturbed condition of the site. Lower Mississippi pottery types 



