PROVENIENCE OF THE ARTIFACTS

The provenience of the artifacts at the Harroun Site is summarized in [Table 1]. It is clear that the artifacts associated with each house, with the fill of each mound, and with the upper part of the floodplain deposits are quite similar, in the main, throughout the site. Or put another way, each major type or category of artifacts is more or less evenly distributed over the site. This supports the conclusion that the burial, the four houses, the four mounds, and most of the artifacts in the upper part of the floodplain are associated with a single occupation of the site by one cultural group. Architectural and structural data from the mounds point toward the same conclusion.

The only apparent variation from the general provenience pattern is the occurrence of all 17 of the Bullard Brushed sherds at Mound C. However, only two vessels are represented by the Bullard sherds, and because of the small sample it is probably of no particular significance that they all were found at one mound.

Some of the projectile point types may have derived exclusively from a light pre-mound occupation of Archaic affiliation. But the Gary and Perdiz types are unquestionably associated with the mounds and the houses. The Coles Creek Incised (?) and Beldeau Incised (?) sherds may pre-date the mounds.

Table 1
Provenience of the Artifacts

Column Headings Mound A A1—Sub-Mound (Zone IIb) A2—Intermediate Zone A3—Mound Fill A4—Bur. 1 Assoc. A5—Grave Fill, Bur. 1 A6—Feature 1 A7—Disturbed Areas Etc. Mound B B1—Sub-Mound B2—Mound Fill B3—House No. 3 B4—Disturbed Areas Etc. Mound C C1—Sub-Mound C2—Mound Fill C3—House No. 1 C4—House No. 2 C5—Disturbed Areas Etc. Mound D D1—Sub-Mound D2—Mound Fill D3—House No. 4 D4—Disturbed Areas Etc. Floodplain Trenches F1—Zone IIa F2—Intermediate Zone F3—Zone IIb T—Totals

A1 A2 A3 A4 A5 A6 A7 B1 B2 B3 B4 C1 C2 C3 C4 C5 D1 D2 D3 D4 F1 F2 F3 T
Ripley Engraved Vessels 2 2
Potsherds:
Miscellaneous Brushed 11 10 24 4 1 4 5 4 2 8 3 14 10 12 2 1 3 118
Miscellaneous Incised 4 2 5 2 1 4 1 1 1 1 22
Miscellaneous Appliquéd 1 1 1 1 1 5
Miscellaneous Punctated 2 3 1 1 1 8
Miscellaneous Engraved 9 4 16 5 1 2 2 4 3 5 5 12 8 6 3 5 2 92
Plain 27 31 64 6 1 10 3 16 6 32 19 14 2 8 4 3 3 6 5 260
Bullard Brushed 1 1 1 14 17
Pease Brushed—Incised 2 3 5 2 2 1 1 1 17
Crockett Curv.—Incised 1 1
Coles Cr. or Chase Incised 1 1
Maydelle Incised (?) 1 1 1 3
Ripley Engraved 2 1 2 1 1 1 8
Taylor Engraved 1 1 1 3
Gibson Aspect, Engraved 2 2 4
Beldeau Incised (?) 1 1
Perforated Ceramic Disc 1 1
Conical Ceramic Object 1 1
Dart Points:
Gary 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 8
Wells 1 1 2
San Patrice 1 1
Trinity (?) 1 1
Ellis 1 1
Palmillas (?) 1 1
Unident. Contract. stem 1 1 1 1 4
Rectangular Stem 1 1
Arrow Points:
Perdiz 1 1 1 1 4
Unident. expanding stem 1 1 2
Bifacial Blades 1 1 2
Worked Nodules 1 1 2 1 1 6
Chipped Stone Drills 1 1
Fragmentary chipped
St. Arts. 1 1 1 3
Milling Stones 1 1
Pitted Stones 1 2 3
Grooved Stones 1 1 2
Ground Stone Fragments 1 1 1 3
TOTALS 62 50 119 3 17 4 16 14 34 21 55 3 36 47 27 42 11 13 2 3 1 10 20 610