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of Coles Creek Plain, since the Coles Creek Incised specimens con- 

 form to the Lower Mississippi specifications. 



If Coles Creek Plain may be tentatively eliminated, there are left 

 only Troyville Plain and Marksville Plain as possible counterparts 

 of Baytown-like. Typologically there is little evidence for making 

 a choice between the two, so it will be necessary to consider other 

 factors. Seriation studies in the Lower Mississij)pi Valley (Ford, 

 1951) indicate that there is only a very slight temporal overlap, near 

 time E, of the types Marksville Plain and Coles Creek Incised. This 

 suggests that Baytown-like, which occurred with Coles Creek Incised, 

 is perhaps too late to be related to Marksville Plain. In addition, 

 most of the burials at Snipes were extended and contained mortuary 

 offerings of pottery vessels, while the Marksville Period burials, in 

 the Lower Mississippi Area, are almost invariably flexed or semi- 

 flexed and devoid of accompaniments. Thus a post-Marksville 

 placement of the Snipes component is indicated by most of the 

 burials, although the presence of one flexed and one semiflexed burial 

 without offerings suggests partial survival of Marksville burial 

 customs, and therefore implies that the Snipes component is sepa- 

 rated from the Marksville Period by only a comparatively short 

 span of time. 



Examination of Ford's seriation graphs based on material from 

 the Greenhouse Site (Ford, 1951) reveals that the only position 

 where a relatively large quantity of Troyville Plain should be asso- 

 ciated with a relatively small quantity of Coles Creek Incised is in 

 the period E-D. The quantitative relationship of Baytown-like (if 

 a close relationship with Troyville Plain may be assumed) and Coles 

 Creek Incised at Snipes should fit into the seriation pattern near the 

 middle of the period E-D, or the Troyville Period of Ford. 



In summary, the paste and stylistic characteristics of Baytown- 

 like pottery link it most closely to the type Troyville Plain of the 

 Lower Mississippi Area. The one outstanding difference is the pres- 

 ence of bone tempering in approximately one-third of the Baytown- 

 like sherds. Ford's seriation graphs show that the quantitative 

 relationship between Coles Creek Incised and Baytown-like (or 

 Troyville Plain by assumed projection) existing at the Snipes Site 

 is duplicated in the Lower Mississippi Valley only near the middle 

 of the Period E-D. Survival of flexed and semiflexed burials similar 

 to those of the pre-E Period also implies that placement of the 

 Snipes component should not be a great deal later than time E. 

 Therefore it appears probable that the Lower Mississippi occupation 

 at Snipes should be alined with the Period E-D of the Lower Missis- 

 sippi chronology, probably near the middle of that period. 



For purposes of convenience the above discussion was carried on 

 in terms of temporal alinement of the Snipes component with Lower 



