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Title Early pottery : technology, function, style, and interaction in the lower Southeast / edited by Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hays.

Publication Info. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 276 pages) : illustrations, maps
Physical Medium polychrome
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Note Papers originally presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 2000.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-262) and index.
Contents 1. Introduction: Themes in Early Pottery Research / Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hays -- 2. Common Origins and Divergent Histories in the Early Pottery Traditions of the American Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- 3. Spatial Variation in Orange Culture Pottery: Interaction and Function / Rebecca Saunders -- 4. Paste Variability and Possible Manufacturing Origins of Late Archaic Fiber-Tempered Pottery from Selected Sites in Peninsular Florida / Ann S. Cordell -- 5. The Emergence of Pottery in South Florida / Michael Russo and Gregory Heide -- 6. Fiber-Tempered Pottery and Cultural Interaction on the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast / L. Janice Campbell, Prentice M. Thomas, Jr., and James H. Mathews -- 7. Early Pottery at Poverty Point: Origins and Functions / Christopher T. Hays and Richard A. Weinstein -- 8. In the Beginning: Social Contexts of First Pottery in the Lower Mississippi Valley / Jon L. Gibson and Mark A. Melancon -- 9. Petrographic Thin-Section Analysis of Poverty Point Pottery / Anthony L. Ortmann and Tristram R. Kidder -- 10. Did Poverty Pointers Make Pots? / James B. Stoltman.
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Summary A synthesis of research on earthenware technologies of the Late Archaic Period in the southeastern U.S. Information on social groups and boundaries, and on interaction between groups, burgeons when pottery appears on the social landscape of the Southeast in the Late Archaic period (ca. 5000-3000 years ago). This volume provides a broad, comparative review of current data from "first potteries" of the Atlantic and Gulf coastal plains and in the lower Mississippi River Valley, and it presents research that expands our understanding of how pottery functioned in its earliest manifestations in this region. Included are discussions of Orange pottery in peninsular Florida, Stallings pottery in Georgia, Elliot's Point fiber-tempered pottery in the Florida panhandle, and the various pottery types found in excavations over the years at the Poverty Point site in northeastern Louisiana. The data and discussions demonstrate that there was much more interaction, and at an earlier date, than is often credited to Late Archaic societies. Indeed, extensive trade in pottery throughout the region occurs as early as 1500 B.C. These and other findings make this book indispensable to those involved in research into the origin and development of pottery in general and its unique history in the Southeast in particular.
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Subject Indian pottery -- Southern States -- Themes, motives.
Indian pottery.
Southern States.
Themes, motives.
Indian pottery -- Southern States -- Classification.
Genre/Form Classification.
Subject Mississippian pottery -- Southern States -- Themes, motives.
Mississippian pottery.
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Southern States.
Excavations (Archaeology)
Indians of North America -- Southern States -- Antiquities.
Indians of North America.
Antiquities.
Poverty Point culture.
Poverty Point culture.
Southern States -- Antiquities.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Saunders, Rebecca, 1955-
Hays, Christopher T. (Christopher Tinsley), 1957-
Society for American Archaeology.
Other Form: Print version: Early pottery. Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004 (DLC) 2004010598 (OCoLC)55109057
ISBN 9780817384272 (electronic book)
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