pip. N^f; laf ■ McNARY RESERVOIR — SHINER 183 



This may reflect only the slope of the terrace toward the river, but it 

 is the only evidence indicative of an entranceway. 



Reoccupation of old houses seems to have been a pattern. It would 

 be far easier to clean out an old house depression than it would be to 

 dig a new one. This could account for the lack of material culture 

 found in the house fill. Apparently, every so often, as the house 

 began to fill with trash, it was cleaned out to the depth desired. 



Traces of another house that probably should be assigned to the 

 early period were found during the excavation of the midden. It was 

 approximately 50 feet southwest of house pit 3. Badly disturbed by 

 later occupation, the floor that remained consisted of only a thin 

 charcoal stain about 3 feet in diameter. No surface depression was 

 evident and practically no information could be gained from working 

 about the remains of the floor. 



House pit 12, located at the eastern extremity of the site, had been 

 occupied at least two times. The earlier floor was in the form of a 

 deep bowl (fig. 26), and the later floor was more saucer shaped. 

 Unfortunately, the only artifacts associated with the deeper floor were 

 ubiquitous hammers and choppers, so that the house could not be 

 assigned to any period. The shell layer that was so prominent at the 

 western end of the terrace did not extend as far east, so it could not 

 be involved in the stratigraphy. As near as could be determined, the 

 earliest indistinct floor of house pit 12 was of about the same size 

 and shape as the early floor in house pit 3. The later occupation of 

 the pit left ahnost no traces; only a slight discoloration near the 

 center of the depression. 



House pit 4 (pi. 36 and fig. 27) presented another picture of multiple 

 occupations. The earlier floor of the house was saucer shaped as far 

 as it could be traced, and had a small fireplace in the center. There 

 were two strata of mussel shells just outside of what seemed to be the 

 edge of the dwelling, and they appear to represent two periods of 

 occupation of the house. A later house utilized at least part of the 

 depression of the first house, but was centered approximately 7 feet 

 to the east. The later house was larger (43 feet in diameter), and 

 was stratigraphically later than the two thin layers of mussel shells. 

 If it was correct to correlate the shell layers with the occupation of 

 the earlier floor level, that occupation may in turn be correlated with 

 the deposition of the thick shell layer that covers the central portion 

 of the site. The shell layers near the house were proved to be parts of 

 the major shell deposit. 



After the later house had been abandoned, the depression of house 

 pit 4 was used for the construction of a large earth oven. 



Large lens-shaped concentrations of fire-cracked rock were found at 

 three different places on the site. In each case the concentration was 



