The 1931 Excavations at the Sanders Site,
Lamar County, Texas
A.T. Jackson, Marcus S. Goldstein and Alex
D. Krieger
Introduction by Frank Schamback
The Texas Archeological Research Laboratory
is pleased to publish for the first time the original descriptive report
on The University of Texas at Austin excavations in 1931 at the T. M. Sanders
Farm site (41LR2). In recent years there has been renewed interest in the
material recovered at the site in 1931; and the debates about the findings
have been lively and not without significant implications for Caddoan archeology
in particular and Southeastern archeology in general. As indicated by Frank
Schambach in the introduction, this little known manuscript contains a wealth
of information on one of the more unusual and interesting prehistoric sites
in Texas. Included with this descriptive report are two other pertinent
manuscripts, one on the physical anthropological analysis by Marcus Goldstein,
and one on the ceramics by Alex Krieger. Together, these three manuscripts
are, as noted by Schambach, key documents in the story of Sanders. To the
extent practical, the reports herein published are as written in 1931 by
Jackson, by Goldstein probably in 1941, and by Krieger also probably in
1941. New artifact photographs have been added to those in the original
manuscript.
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Series.
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