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