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Figure 7. — Lower Mississippi chronology after Phillips, Ford, and Griffin, 1951. The 

 letters denote arbitrary points in time that have been correlated with the archeological 

 complexes, as indicated. 



Plain, and the possibility of a direct linkage with Coles Creek Plain 

 can be tentatively eliminated. Divorcement of Baytown-like from 

 Coles Creek Plain is indirectly substantiated by the fact that the 

 specimens of Coles Creek Incised from the Snipes Site are of the 

 same approximate wall thickness and hardness as specimens of the 

 same type in the Lower Mississippi Area. This would seem to obvi- 

 ate the possibility that the Baytown-like at Snipes is a local variation 



