_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