The Lawhorn Site

by John Moselage

ILLUSTRATIONS

Figures Page [FRONTISPIECE] iii [1. Map of Lawhorn Site in Relation to Archaeological Sites in the Central Mississippi Valley] 3 [2. Aerial View of the St. Francis River “Sunken Lands” and the Lawhorn Site] 5 [3. Aerial View of Drainage Ditch and Levee at the Lawhorn Site] 6 [4. Contour Map of the Lawhorn Site, with Levee, Drainage Ditch, Excavated Areas and Grid Control System] 7 [5. Cord Marked Sherds and Positive Impressions] 21 [6. Sand Tempered Textile Marked Sherds and Clay Impressions] 22 [7. Sand Tempered Textile Marked Sherds and Impressions] 23 [8. Pottery Handles and Lugs] 26 [9. Jar Forms] 28 [10. Pottery Handles] 29 [11. Human Effigy Head] 31 [12. Painted Pottery] 32 [13. Decorated Pottery Sherds] 33 [14. Bowls] 35 [15. Water Bottles] 37 [16. Pottery Vessels with Burial 24] 40 [17. Pottery Disks] 45 [18. Corner Notched and Stemmed Arrowheads] 47 [19. Ovoid and Trianguloid Arrowheads] 48 [20. Stemmed Projectile Points] 50 [21. Projectile Points] 52 [22. Chipped Stone Tools] 53 [23. Mortars and Pestles] 55 [24. Stone and Pottery Abraders and Stone Pipe] 56 [25. Bone Tools] 59 [26. Bone Beads and Burned Clay Daub] 60 [27. Brickettes or Fired Clay Artifacts] 62 [28. Shell Ornaments and Tools] 64 [29. Broken Pottery Jar] 66 [30. Firebasin of Unusual Shape] 68 [31. House Ground Plan with Charred Remains, Firebasin, Ash Dumps and Refuse Pit] 70 [32. Charred Cane Poles and Grass, Part of House 1] 71 [33. Houses 2 and 3] 72 [34. Pottery Vessel in House 2 Firebasin] 74 [35. Ground Plan of House 2 with Firebasin and Burned Floor Area, and House 3 with Details of the Burned Super-structure] 75 [36. Charred Wattle Work Wall or Roof Section of House 3] 76 [37. Basal Ends of Poles along West Wall of House 3] 77 [38. Cross Sectioned Log from Floor of House 3] 78 [39. Broken Pottery Vessel from House 3] 79 [40. Hypothetical Reconstruction of the House Type at Lawhorn] 81 [41. Burials 21 and 22] 82 [42. Burial 25 and Associated Pottery Bowl] 83 [43. Burial 36] 84 [44. Soil Profiles above and near Burial 36] 85 [45. Pottery Bowl Inverted over Shoulder of Burial 37] 86 [46. Cutting a Horizontal Profile in Square 27R32, Showing Use of Hand Tools] 88 [47. Vertical and Horizontal Profiles Showing Intrusion of Sand into Cracks in Soil, Judged to be caused by Earthquake Activity] 90 [48. Missouri Archaeological Society Achievement Award, 1961] 106 [49. Francis Stubbs, Achievement Award Recipient, 1960] 107 [50. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Collins, Achievement Award Recipient, 1961] 108 [51. Sam C. Irvine, Award Plaque Recipient 1961] 109 Tables Page [1. Summary of the Sand Tempered Pottery] 24 [2. Summary of Shell Tempered Plain and Decorated Pottery] 25 [3. Relative Occurrence of Pottery Lugs] 27 [4. Comparison of Domestic and Mortuary Vessel Forms] 34 [5. Summary of House Data] 80 [6. Comparative Analysis of Corn from Lawhorn and Four Area Sites] 98 [7. Comparative Dates from Lawhorn and Four Area Sites] 98 [8. Burial Data] 101-102 [9. Age and Sex Groups] 102 [10. Mortuary Vessels] 103 [11. Average Age of Fourteen Burials] 103