OKLAHOMA ARCHEOLOGICAL SURVEY HIGHLIGHTED SITES BY COUNTY Content created 1998-2002 by Oklahoma Archeological Survey Staff TABLE OF CONTENTS Adair County ................................................................................................................................... 4 Alfalfa County ................................................................................................................................ 6 Atoka County .................................................................................................................................. 9 Beaver County .............................................................................................................................. 11 Beckham County ........................................................................................................................... 12 Blaine County ............................................................................................................................... 14 Bryan County ................................................................................................................................ 16 Caddo County ............................................................................................................................... 19 Canadian County ........................................................................................................................... 21 Cherokee County .......................................................................................................................... 23 Choctaw County............................................................................................................................ 25 Cimarron County .......................................................................................................................... 28 Cleveland County.......................................................................................................................... 31 Coal County .................................................................................................................................. 33 Comanche County ......................................................................................................................... 35 Craig County ................................................................................................................................. 37 Custer County ............................................................................................................................... 40 Delaware County .......................................................................................................................... 42 Dewey County .............................................................................................................................. 45 Garfield County ............................................................................................................................ 48 Garvin County ............................................................................................................................... 50 Grady County ................................................................................................................................ 52 Grant County ................................................................................................................................. 54 Harper County ............................................................................................................................... 57 Haskell County.............................................................................................................................. 60 Hughes County.............................................................................................................................. 62 Jackson County ............................................................................................................................. 64 Jefferson County ........................................................................................................................... 66 Johnston County............................................................................................................................ 68 2 Kay County ................................................................................................................................... 70 Kiowa County ............................................................................................................................... 72 Latimer County ............................................................................................................................. 74 LeFlore County ............................................................................................................................. 76 Love County.................................................................................................................................. 78 Marshall County............................................................................................................................ 80 McClain County ............................................................................................................................ 84 McCurtain County ........................................................................................................................ 87 McIntosh County .......................................................................................................................... 89 Murray County .............................................................................................................................. 92 Nowata County ............................................................................................................................. 94 Oklahoma County ......................................................................................................................... 96 Osage County ................................................................................................................................ 98 Ottawa County ............................................................................................................................ 100 Payne County .............................................................................................................................. 103 Pontotoc County.......................................................................................................................... 105 Pottawatomie County .................................................................................................................. 106 Pushmataha County .................................................................................................................... 108 Roger Mills County..................................................................................................................... 111 Rogers County ............................................................................................................................ 113 Seminole County ......................................................................................................................... 116 Sequoyah County ........................................................................................................................ 118 Texas County .............................................................................................................................. 120 Tulsa County ............................................................................................................................... 122 Wagoner County ......................................................................................................................... 125 Washington County .................................................................................................................... 127 Washita County ........................................................................................................................... 128 Woods County ............................................................................................................................ 130 3 Adair County The Owl Cave Site Woodward Engraved pottery sherds from Owl Cave (photo courtesy Oklahoma Anthropological Society) Owl Cave, near Sallisaw Creek in Adair County, is a 70' x 20' cave which sheltered people for over a thousand years. The site came to the attention of archaeologists in 1963 when the cave's landowner discovered pothunters digging in the cave and disturbing human burials there. Current laws in the state of Oklahoma make this activity illegal, but at the time the only recourse was to run the diggers off the property. Salvage excavations at the site by Oklahoma Anthropological Society volunteers revealed fairly extensive disturbance by pothunters. Signs of centuries of human habitation had been left in 18" - 22" of soil. Recovered artifacts included projectile points which may date as early as the Archaic period and pottery which may relate to the Mississippian period (for a Flash presentation of the time periods in Oklahoma's prehistory, click here). Pottery sherds like those shown above all appear to have come from one vessel and show design elements like the apparent bird claw in the sherd in the upper right hand part of the photograph. Unfortunately, the pothunter's disturbance of the archaeological context resulted in the loss of most of the