This is a belated description of the Smithport Landing Site, one of several known Alto Focus components in northwestern Louisiana. This large village site, on the western margin of the Red River flood plain, covers portions of several low hills which front on a former lake. Nineteen pottery vessels, all but two identifiable as Alto Focus types, were found with fourteen burials. Included are _Hickory Fine Engraved_, _Davis Incised_, _Kiam Incised_, _Wilkinson Punctated_, and _Smithport Plain_ (virtually identical with _Bowles Creek Plain_) types.…
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