Open AccessComments on Caddo Settlement Pattern and Culture Identity
Author(s) -
Frank Winchell
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
index of texas archaeology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2475-9333
DOI - 10.21112/.ita.1989.1.17
Subject(s) - archaeology , human settlement , settlement (finance) , geography , hamlet (protein complex) , stylized fact , geology , art , world wide web , computer science , payment , literature , economics , macroeconomics
This discussion will be based primarily upon Schambach's work and observations on Caddo habitation settlements in the Great Bend area of Southwestern Arkansas. Schambach believes that the basic Caddo settlement pattern is that of a dispersed hamlet configuration clustered around a specific civic-ceremonial center. This settlement configuration is based upon archaeological work in the Great Bend area which conforms to a stylized but highly accurate map drawn from an inhabited historic Caddo village compound presumably near the Hatchel Mound site (41BW3) on the west bank of the Red River in Texas.