The Buresh Archeological Site (14SR303), near

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in on May 14, 1971. The Buresh site is part of here Bluff Creek complex, defined by archaeologist Tom Witty, part of the Middle Ceramic period and possibly related to the Washita focus of

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.Meier, "The Armstrong Site," p. 22. Witty excavated the remains of four houses here. Two houses are square, one is oval, and one is rectangular.Meier, "The Armstrong Site," p. 3. The site yielded rounded ceramic jars and bowls, mainly tempered with sand or bone. Radiocarbon dating estimated AD 1050 as the date of the site, but the dating method was deemed unreliable.

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