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Multi-periodSite Name: Kelsey Creek Dam siteCountry: United States
NOTE: This site is 68.892 km away from the location you searched for.
Region: The Southwest Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Dallas, TX Nearest Village: Gilmer, TX
Latitude: 32.763000N Longitude: 94.982W
Condition:
5 | Perfect |
4 | Almost Perfect |
3 | Reasonable but with some damage |
2 | Ruined but still recognisable as an ancient site |
1 | Pretty much destroyed, possibly visible as crop marks |
0 | No data. |
-1 | Completely destroyed |
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4 | Good |
3 | Ordinary |
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1 | Awful |
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5 | Can be driven to, probably with disabled access |
4 | Short walk on a footpath |
3 | Requiring a bit more of a walk |
2 | A long walk |
1 | In the middle of nowhere, a nightmare to find |
0 | No data. |
5 | co-ordinates taken by GPS or official recorded co-ordinates |
4 | co-ordinates scaled from a detailed map |
3 | co-ordinates scaled from a bad map |
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Ancient Village or Settlement in Upshur County, Texas.
One of a cluster of Caddo villages along Kelsey Creek. Excavations in the 1990's prior to the building of a dam and reservoir found house sites, ceramics, stone and bone tools, and some burial locations. The burial locations had been looted at some time in the past.
News articles do not identify the time periods associated with the villages along Kelsey Creek, but the Caddo lived in this area between 700AD and the 1600's, and the people at Kelsey Creek are described as pre-conquest.
Human remains and grave goods have been repatriated to the Caddo Nation (Binger, OK.) The other artifacts will be curated at the Stephen F. Austin State University. A paper, "Mitigation Phase Archaeological Investigations at Lake Gilmer, Upshur County, Texas," by Mark Parsons is pending from the Texas State Historical Commission.
Note: Archaeological investigation of Caddo Indians at Kelsey Creek. See comment.
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