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From the above information we were able to determine that the 

 people who had deposited tliis material lived during the Middle Wood- 

 land times at this site. 



EASTER GREEK COMPONENT 

 (44Mc7) 



Another village site (44J^Ic7) at 78°24'16" long., 36°35'03'' lat., 

 lay on the north bank of the Roanoke River above the 230-foot contour. 

 It was about 200 feet long by 100 feet wide. 



During the survey a large random collection was made from the 

 surface because when we tested the site we found practically no depth 

 to the deposit. Our tests showed that the actual settlement occupied 

 only the western half of the area we measured off. Our explanation 

 for this lies in the fact that the site had been cultivated over quite a 

 long period of time. In plowing and cultivating, the farm tools had 

 dragged and spread the accimiulated debris over a larger area than 

 that in which it was originally deposited. 



An analysis of the sherd material revealed the following types were 

 present (table 16) : 



Table 16. 



-Numerical and percentile count of the various wares p'om the Easter 

 Creek Component, JfJ^McJ 



Associated with this assemblage were a number of quartz artifacts 

 consisting of two small isosceles triangular projectile points, 1 medi- 

 um-sized serrated isosceles point, 1 pentagonal medium-sized point, 

 1 large ovate point, and a rounded nodule which may have been some 

 soil of chopper. 



With the quartz-ceramic assemblages was a lump of crude clay 

 pressed into a rough ball shape and burned. It is reminiscent of 

 certain Poverty Point clay objects. 



Besides these, there are two chert pentagonal-shaped projectile 

 points — one is complete and the other is only two-thirds complete. 

 Both have slightly indented bases and are lenticular in cross sec- 

 tion. A number of other chert forms were found lower down in the 

 site. These are fairly large, roughly triangular in outline, and crude- 

 ly shaped by percussion chipping. They were not retouched along 

 the edges. 



