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The Buried City locality is a dense concentration of Plains Village period (A.D. 1200-1500) archaeological sites located in the Wolf Creek valley of Ochlitree County, Texas.
The complex of sites is perhaps best known for its stone slab architecture, several of which have been excavated during previous investigations. In fact, the Buried City stone slab houses were the focus of nearly all archaeological investigations conducted prior to 2003, perhaps due to the relative ease with which these features can be located (i.e. many stone alignments are visible on the ground surface). For this reason the localities inhabitants were often assumed to be closely related to the Antelope Creek phase peoples living to the SW and NW who also occupied stone slab houses. However the material culture of the Buried City peoples more closely resembles that of the subterranean pithouse dwelling Odessa phase peoples living directly adjacent to the northeast. This evidence led archaeologists to hypothesize that perhaps the Buried City peoples did live in subterranean pit houses, but that the previous exclusive focus on stone slab structures had biased our understanding of these peoples.
This case study demonstrates how geophysics was incorporated into a research design to answer the question: Did Buried City peoples utilize subterranean pit houses? (magnetic, resistance, GPR, ground truthing and block excavation results) more case studies...
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