Material Culture Analysis: Ceramic Identification (Indigenous Pottery Types)

TEST THREE

Late Archaic

• Stallings, Saint Simons, Orange

• 2500 - 1000 BC

• geography: Atlantic coast from South Carolina to St. Simons Island

• Fiber temper, bowl-shaped, mostly straight rim, rounded lips

• plain, punctated, incised

• ONLY TYPE THAT IS FIBER TEMPERED

Fiber

What is the temper of Late Archaic pottery?

plain, punctated, incised

what are the types of surface treatment for late archaic pottery?

• three types, very rudimentary (other types of surface treatment build from these treatments)

bowls, simple rim

What is the vessel shape / rim type for late archaic pottery?

Early Woodland

• refuge

• 1000 - 600 BC

• Lower Savannah River and upper Georgia coast

• sand/grit temper, simple stamped, conoidal jars or bowls

• straight rims

• often confused with VININGS pottery

Early Woodland

What time period is REFUGE pottery?

Sand/grit

what is the temper of REFUGE pottery?

Simple Stamped

What is the surface treatment of REFUGE pottery?

• comprised of shallow, longitudinal grooves, which may be parallel or in a cross-stamped pattern

Middle Woodland

• Deptford, Cartersville, Swift Creek

Deptford

• middle woodland

• below the fall line

• grit temper, sometimes have tetrapods, jar shaped (conoidal base)

• straight rim, sometimes rolled

• check, bold check, linear check, plain, simple stamped surface treatments

Grit

what is the temper of Deptford pottery (middle woodland)?

Jars

What is the vessel form of deptford pottery?

Cartersville

• Middle Woodland

• sand/grit temper, checked, linear checked, simple stamped

• found above the fall line (don’t confuse with Deptford → below the fall line)

Sand/grit

what is the temper of Cartersville pottery (middle woodland)?

Swift Creek

• Middle Woodland

• range = all of Georgia

• Complicated stamped surface treatment (predominantly curvilinear, spirals, circles, concentric lines), grit temper

grit

What is the temper of Swift Creek Pottery?

Complicated stamped

what is the surface treatment type for Swift Creek pottery?

Late Woodland

• Wilmington, Vining, St. Catherine’s

Clay/Grog

What is the temper of Wilmington Pottery?

Cord Marked

What is the surface treatment for Wilmington Pottery?

• smaller simple stamping (thinner lines)

Bowls

What is the vessel form of Wilmington pottery?

• not much rim/lip

Sand

What temper is Vining?

Simple Stamped

What is the surface treatment for Vining pottery?

• occurs in thinner lines

Grog

What is the temper for St. Catherine’s pottery?

• finer, more ground than Wilmington

Cord marked

What is the surface treatment for St. Catherine’s pottery?

• neater than Wilmington (closest pottery to compare to)

Mississippian

Savannah, Lamar, Irene

Grit

Temper for Savannah (Mississippian)

Jars

Pottery type for Savannah (shape)

Burnished plain, complicated stamped

surface treatment for Savannah (the decoration style)

Savannah = simple motifs; swift creek = multiple motifs

What is the difference between Savannah and Swift Creek Comp Stamping?

Grit (super gritty)

Temper for Lamar (Mississippian)

Complicated stamped, incised

what is the surface treatment for Lamar pottery?

Folded and pinched

Rim type for Lamar

Grit

Temper for Irene

Folded and punctated (circles)

What type of rim? irene complicated stamped

Philfot Cross

What is the type of design common on Irene complicated stamping?

Contact Period

• Fort Walton, Chattahoochee

Grit

Temper for Altamaha

Red Filmed, check stamped

altamaha Surface treamtent

Grit

Temper for Chattahoochee