Village Creek Collection

Historical Note

The Village Creek Collection contains materials related to archeological digs at various locations along the Trinity River in Tarrant County, the majority coming from digs in the Kennedale area. These digs were conducted as a field school for the University of Texas at Arlington (UTA) Department of Sociology and Anthropology students in the 1990s, and was directed by Dr. Jeffrey R. Hanson, who was a professor of Anthropology at UTA from 1986 through 2001.

The land near Village Creek in Kennedale was a Native American campsite dating to 2000 BC. Multiple sites were dug in these Kennedale areas, and there is an additional site near Eagle Mountain Lake represented in the collection.

Scope and Contents

The Village Creek Collection contains many articles related to archeology and various sites, newsletters, documents about the field schools, various types of forms from digs at the different sites, data related to dig findings, maps of sites, photographs from dig sites, and artifacts from one of the dig sites.

Materials in this collection consist of the following:

Artifacts

• Many artifacts, believed to be from the Fountain site, including tools such as points and flints, chert, and other geologic samples 

Documents

• Village Creek project proposal and funding information, 1995
• UTA Field School class rosters, course information, computer guide, and student assignments, 1995-1999
• Student field journals from various sites, 1993-2000
• Geologic overview and regional lithics sources information for the Riley and Fountain Sites, 1998-2000, undated
• Shovel test forms, daily unit excavation forms, excavation forms, artifact catalogue forms, float lot catalog, diagnostic and non-diagnostic data, flora and fauna data, and faunal remains write up for the Fountain Site, 1990s
• Shovel test forms,  artifact catalogue forms, excavation forms, data, and maps of the Riley Site, 1990s
• Menustat data for tools and points, geologic overview, and diagnostic and non-diagnostic data for the Riley and Fountain Sites, 1995
• Shovel test forms, artifact catalogue forms, and field bag lot forms for the Hutcherson Site, 1998-2000
• Site forms, shovel test forms, and field bag lot forms for the Killian Site, 1995-2000
• Artifact catalogue forms and field bag lot forms for the Metzger Site, undated
• Test forms, artifact catalog forms, inventory catalog forms, excavation profiles, plotter maps, and copy of notes and communications, sample reports of data, diagnostic and un-diagnostic data, and reports for the North Point Site (Eagle Mountain Lake), 1990s
• Artifact catalogue forms for the Westerfield Site, 1999
• Niche Width (Resource Bredth) Data, 1990s
• Tarrant County archeological sites information, data forms, maps, and correspondence for various sites, 1990s
• Brazos Valley Research Associates archeological site data forms, Fossil Rim Site, photocopy, 1990s
• Radiocarbon dating information for Village Creek, 2000
• Texas Climate Data 1895-1995, 1998
• John B. Craig Land Abstract/Deed, Gillespe County, photocopy, undated
• Private point collection data for the collections of Bill Rogers, Dan McGregor, and Mary Willis, 1990s
• Texas Historical Commission archeological guides and blank forms, 1992-2000
• Archeological Resource Protection Act training materials, U.S. Department of the Interior Bureau of Indian Affairs, 2001

Maps

• Dig maps for the Fountain and Riley Sites,1990s
• Palo Pinto County map of mounds/stone circles, undated
• Digitally created and hand drawn maps, Village Creek, 1997, 2012, undated

Newsletters

• Fieldnotes newsletter, Center for Research and Fieldwork in Anthropology, 1996
• Tarrant County Archeology Society newsletters, 1959-2015
• Texas Archeology Newsletter, Texas Archeological Society, 1993-1994

Photographs

• Artifact and dig photos and negatives for the Riley and Fountain Sites, 1994-1999, undated

Publications

Many publications in this list are photocopies of chapters from books or articles from journals.

• An Analysis of the Lithic Artifacts and Debitage from the Village Creek Sites of North Central Texas by Stephen Lee Maxwell, 2002
• Archaeological geology of the Southern Plains by C. Reid Ferring, 1990
• An Archaeological Survey of Trinity River Linear Park Tarrant County, Texas by C. Reid Ferring, 1994
• The Archaic Period in North Central Texas by Olin F. McCormick, undated
• Artifact Variability and the Chronology at Two Sites along Village Creek, Tarrant County, Texas by Jeffery R. Hanson, Doug Shaw, and Patricia Nickens
• Basic Bison Bones partial publication, undated
• Chronology and Cultural Affiliation in North Central Texas: The Late Prehistoric Period of the Upper Trinity Region by Jeffery R. Hanson, Kimberly K. Kvernes, and Daniel E. McGregor
• Cultural Chronology in Central Texas by Elton R. Prewitt, 1981
• The Excavations of the River Bend Site (41TR68) by Duane E. Peter
• Field Survey and Artifact Analysis, undated
• From Circleville to Toyah: Comments on Central Texas Chronology by Elton R. Prewitt, 1985
• Geophysical Surveys of 41TR136: The Site on Village Creek in Kennedale, Texas by Laura Everett Gibson, 1994
• Hunter-Gatherer Mobility Strategies by Robert L. Kelly, 1983
• The Identification of Prehistoric Hunter-Gatherer Aggregation Sites: The Case of Altamira by Margaret W. Conkey, 1980
• The Indian in the History of Tarrant County, Texas by James H. Baker and Raymond E. Cage II, 1962
• Intrasite spatial patterning: its role in settlement-subsistence systems analysis by C. Reid Ferring, 1984
• Intrasite Variability and Spatial Analysis: Site 41TR136
• Lithic Resource Availability in the Upper Trinity River Region: The Evidence from Joe Pool Lake by Daniel E. McGregor, undated
• Lower Elm Fork Prehistory by Daniel J. Prikryl, Office of the Sate Archeologist Report 37, Texas Historical Commission, photocopy, 1990
• A Model of Prehistoric Adaptation in Northern Texas by Mark J. Lynott, 1981
• Prehistoric Lithic Raw Material Utilization in North Central Texas by Dennis Craig Young, Jr., thesis draft, 1989
• Prehistoric Settlement and Subsistence Structure of Northern Plains Hunter/Gatherers by Jeffery R. Hanson, 1987
• Report of Colonel Samuel Cooper, Assistant Adjutant General of the United States, of Inspection Trip from Fort Graham to the Indian Villages on the Upper Brazos made in June, 1851, copy
• River Legacy Park Archaeology, undated
• Steward Alcove: A Case of Superposition Dating of Barrier Canyon Style Rock Art by Nancy Coulam and Alan R. Schroedl, 1997
• Upper Trinity Prehistory: Subsistence, Settlement and Chronology as Viewed From the Fountain Site (41TR136) by Jeffery R. Hanson and Kimberly K. Kvernes
• Weapon Technology, Prey Size Selection, and Hunting Methods in Modern Hunter-Gatherers: Implications for Hunting in the Palaeolithic and Mesolithic by Steven E. Churchill, 1993