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and another was recovered from the A. P. Williams Site, a Fulton 

 Aspect component in Titus County, Tex., attributed to the Titus 

 Focus. All three sherds are illustrated in plate 10. These associa- 

 tions, especially when combined with the suggestion of similar asso- 

 ciations at the Snipes, ICnight's Bluff, and Sherwin Sites, lead 

 inescapably to the conclusion that the Fulton Aspect must have been 

 contemporaneous, in part, with marginal manifestations of the Bay- 

 town Period. However, temporal alinement of the Fulton Aspect — 

 even the earliest part thereof — with the Baytown Period in the 

 Lower Mississippi context would not fit present chronological con- 

 structs. And, even allowing a reasonable time lag for marginal 

 Baytown Period sites such as Snipes, it would be difficult to fit a 

 Fulton Aspect-Baytown Period alinement into Ford's chronology, 

 although it might be squeezed into Krieger's. 



In summary, the three Texarkana Reservoir sites provided no data 

 by which chronological alinement of Caddoan and Lower Mississippi 

 complexes can be accurately demonstrated. The two Fulton Aspect 

 sites. Knight's Bluff and Sherwin, contain pottery that is indis 

 tinguishable from the Baytown-like pottery at the Snipes Site, ano 

 the Knight's Bluff Site yielded one sherd which may be of the type 

 Marksville Stamped. The Snipes Site contained Caddoan pottery 

 of both Fulton and Gibson Aspect types, but relationships to the 

 principal occupation by Lower Mississippi peoples is obscure. Pres- 

 ence of Caddoan ceramics at the Lower Mississippi component 

 (Snipes) suggests some sort of relationship between the Caddoan and 

 Lower Mississippi Areas, but the nature of the relationship cannot 

 be determined. These vague suggestions from the three Texarkana 

 Reservoir sites, however, support evidence at the Hatchel and A. P. 

 Williams sites that Baytown Period ceramic types sui*vived into 

 Fulton Aspect times. 



Conclusions. — The Knight's Bluff Site was first occupied by 

 peoples of the East Texas Aspect, an Archaic culture of broad dis- 

 tribution. Economy was probably based on hunting and gathering 

 of vegetal products and shellfish, a type of existence that resulted 

 in seasonal nomadism related to movements of game and harvest 

 cycles of wild products. Neither ceramics nor agriculture had yet 

 appeared in the area, and the bow and arrow were evidently un- 

 known. 



After the site had been abandoned by East Texas Aspect peoples, 

 the KJnight's Bluff Village occupied the same spot. The village was 

 apparently a small, sedentary settlement of agriculturalists who built 

 permanent houses, were expert potters, and who hunted with the 

 bow and arrow. Well-developed religious practices are indicated by 

 standard burial customs, including such features as placement of the 

 body in a supine position with head toward the southeast and inclu- 



