essay
Early ceramic development in the Gulf coastal plain
early woodland archeology • 2 • Published In 1986 • Pages: 546-563
By: Jenkins, Ned J., Dye, David H., Walthall, John A..
AbstractBrief abstract written by HRAF anthropologists who have done the subject indexing for the document
Jenkins, Dye, and Walthall write about the ceramic of the Gulf tradition. These ceramics first appear around 4500 B.P. and they consistently have decorations such as incising, punctating, fingernail pinching, rocker stamping, straight dentate stamping, and rim bosses. The authors trace the evolution of the Gulf tradition '…from initial developments on the southern East Coast, through the gradual diffusion westward of this ceramic technology into the lower Mississippi Valley. Data are presented which indicate that certain decorative treatments and stylistic motifs that eventually appear in early Woodland ceramic complexes along the central and upper reaches of the Mississippi River diffused upvalley out of a Gulf-tradition base.' (page 546). they discuss the spread of ceramics to the western Gulf coastal plain and then their development to 2100 B.P. They include descriptions of Tchefuncte, Alexander, Thomas Creek, and Bayou La Batre ceramics and compare them to Florence and Liverpool to show some of the associations. Only the data that pertain to the Early Woodland time period of 3000 B.P.-2100 B.P. were indexed for OCM (Outline of Cultural Materials) subjects.
- SubjectsDocument-level OCM identifiers given by the anthropology subject indexers at HRAF
- Location
- Historical reconstruction
- Ceramic technology
- Visual arts
- Chronologies and culture sequences
- traditionCulture name from the Outline of World Cultures (OWC)
- Eastern Early Woodland
- HRAF PubDateThe date HRAF published the document
- 2000
- RegionThe area the document pertains to
- North America
- Sub RegionThe more specific area the document pertains to, which is located within the Region
- Eastern Woodlands
- Document TypeMay include journal articles, essays, collections of essays, monographs, or chapters/parts of monographs
- essay
- Evaluation
- Creator TypeThe type of person writing the document, e.g. Ethnographer, Missionary, Archaeologist, Folklorist, Linguist, Indigenous Person, and so on.
- Archaeologist
- Document Rating A ranking done by HRAF anthropologists based on the strength of the source material on a scale of 1 to 5, as follows: 1 - poor; 2 - fair; 3 - good, useful data, but not uniformly excellent; 4 - excellent secondary data; 5 - excellent primary data.
- 4: Excellent Secondary Data
- AnalystThe HRAF anthropologist who subject indexed the document and prepared other materials for the eHRAF culture/tradition collection
- Sarah Berry ; 2005
- Field DateThe date the researcher conducted the fieldwork or archival research that produced the document
- no date
- Coverage DateThe date or dates that the information in the document pertains to
- 2200 BP-2100 BP (1200 B.C.-100 B.C.)
- Coverage PlaceLocation of the research culture or tradition (often a smaller unit such as a band, community, or archaeological site)
- southeast United States
- NotesAdditional notes
- Ned J. Jenkins, David H. Dye, John A. Walthall
- Papers presented at the Kampsville Early Woodland Conference held on Nov. 5th and 6th, 1982, and sponsored by the Center for American Archeology
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 561-563)
- LCCNLibrary of Congress Control Number
- 86025855
- LCSHLibrary of Congress Subject Headings
- Indians of North America--Antiquities