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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Saunders, Rebecca, 1955-

Hays, Christopher T. (Christopher Tinsley), 1957-

Society for American Archaeology.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indian pottery--Southern States--Themes, motives.

Indian pottery.

Indian pottery--Southern States--Classification.

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.

Poverty Point culture.

Southern States--Antiquities.

Southern States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2004.

Language Note:

English

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 earlie

Contents:

Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Acknowledgments; 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 Heide6. 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. StoltmanNotes; References; Contributors; Index

Notes:

Papers originally presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 2000.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [233]-262) and index.

ISBN:

0-8173-8427-8

OCLC:

650060112