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

Other author Saunders, Rebecca, 1955-
Other author Hays, Christopher T. (Christopher Tinsley), 1957-
Other author Society for American Archaeology.
Format Book
Publication InfoTuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2004.
Descriptionxii, 276 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Subjects
Indian pottery--Southern States. --Themes, motives.
Indian pottery--Southern States. --Classification.
Mississippian pottery--Southern States. --Themes, motives.
Excavations (Archaeology)--Southern States.
Indians of North America--Southern States. --Antiquities.
Poverty Point culture.
Southern States--Antiquities.

Contents Introduction: Themes in early pottery research / Rebecca Saunders, Christopher T. Hays -- Common origins and divergent histories in the early pottery traditions of the American Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman -- Spatial variation in orange culture pottery: interaction and function / Rebecca Saunders -- Paste variability and possible manufacturing origins of late archaic fiber-tempered pottery from selected sites in peninsular Florida / Ann S. Cordell -- The emergence of pottery in South Florida / Michael Russo, Gregory Heide -- Fiber-tempered pottery and cultural interaction on the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast / L. Janice Campbell ... [et al.] -- Early pottery at poverty point: origins and functions / Christopher T. Hays, Richard A. Weinstein -- In the beginning: social contexts of first pottery in the Lower Mississippi Valley / Jon L. Gibson, Mark A. Melancon -- Petrographic thin-section analysis of poverty point pottery / Anthony L. Ortmann, Tristram R. Kidder -- Did poverty pointers make pots? / James B. Stoltman.
General notePapers originally presented at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in 2000.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [233]-262) and index.
LCCN 2004010598
ISBN0817314202 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0817351272 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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