Precontact Ceramics

Stallings/ St Simons

can be plain or punctuated, fiber tempered- only one, late archaic: 4500-3000 BP, big and thick walled

stallings/ st simons punctated

fiber tempered, late archaic 4500-3000 bp, poked

Refuge

sand or grit tempered, early woodland 3000- 2600 BP, can be incised, punctated, simple stamped, typically smaller coiled and thinner walls

refuge punctated

sand/grit tempered, early woodland 3000-2600 BP

refuge simple stamped

early woodland 3000-2600 bp, sand tempered

refuge incised

sand tempered, early woodland 3000-2600 BP

Deptford/ Cartersville simple stamped

sand/grit tempered, early woodland 2600-1500 bp

Dunlap fabric marked

early woodland 3000-2300 bp, sand tempered, fabric marked- only one

Deptford/ cartersville check stamped

sand/grit tempered, early woodland 2600-1500 bp, larger and bolder than Savannah check stamped

Swift Creek complicated stamp

middle woodland 1700- 1250 BP, curvilinear designs, crisply stamped and very little overstamping, very elaborate, sand tempered, notched and scalloped rims

Wilmington heavy cord

late woodland 1500-1000 bp, big cords and wider, grog tempered

Weeden island

middle woodland, efigees, very elaborate, sand tempered

Napier Complicated stamp

late woodland 1350-1150 bp, parallel lines, grit tempered

Woodstock complicated stamp

late woodland 1200-1000 bp, rounded corner diamonds

Etowah complicated stamped

early mississippian 1000-800 bp, grit tempered, nested angular diamonds, can have cross hatches, can look like a kite, rectilinear

Savannah complicated stamp

middle mississippian 800-650 BP, curvilinear, crosses and circles, sand/grit tempered

Lamar / Irene complicated stamped

late mississippian 650-400 bp, “filfot cross”, a lot of overstamping, grit tempered, folded pinch rims

savannah burnished plain

middle mississippian, 800-650 BP, smoothed and polished, sand/grit tempered

savannah fine cord marked

very narrow cord marked, small twists, middle mississippian 800-650 bp, sand/grit tempered

simple stamped

using a carved wooden paddle and pressing into the side of a pot to imprint criss cross or paralell lines

cord marked

twisted cordage on the outside of the wooden paddle and then hitting it onto the pots to make desgins

fabric marked

pressing fabric onto the pot to create designs

complicated stamped

has three kinds: rectilinear, curvilinear, and combo, pressing wooden paddle into the pot

lamar/ Irene bold incised

late mississippian 650-400 bp, has a lot of inconsistencies, grit tempered, carving lines into pot

check stamped

taking a wooden paddle and a knife then carving perpendicular lines into paddle, can look like a waffle

linear check stamped

pressing a carved wooden paddle into a pot to make designs, the designs look like a ladder

sherd

a broken piece of pottery

kinds of rims

simple, flattened/ squared, folded, rolled, notched, scalloped, folded and pinched

punctated

taking something and poking it into the outer surface of the vessel

cob marked

taking an ear of corn after you have eaten it all, and pressing the corn cob on the outside of the pottery, mostly around the neck part

incised

taking a sharp tool and carving lines on the exterior of the pot, less uniform than stamped pottery because it is one line at a time

plain surface treatment

no treatment, most common

paint

uses “fugitive colors”, glaze does not preserve over time

negative painting

covering up the parts of the pottery you do not want to get colored and then leaves the ones you do want to get covered open while you paint

burnished plain

very slick, rounded, and smooth, using a tool to like a pebble to create a smooth exterior surface of the pottery

interior-concave and exterior- convex

how can you tell the difference if a sherd is from the interior or the exterior