Ceramic Discoidal In The Southeastern United States

Brown ph d professor of anthropology published in the university of alabama mcnair journal.

Ceramic discoidal in the southeastern united states.

The appearance of ceramics in the southeastern united states does not fit the above pattern. Small unperforated disks are commonly interpreted as gaming pieces and larger perforated disks are often classified as spindle whorls. Ceramics from the middle savannah river in georgia and south carolina known as stallings stallings island or st. Interesting question wayne and i would love to hear what others may have to say.

And ceramic technology laboratory publications. Stoltman 1972 fiber tempered pottery in southeastern united states and northern columbia. Simons have been dated to about 2888 bce 4500 bp and ceramics of the orange and norwood cultures in northern florida to around 2460. Dec 20 2015 explore kat smotherman s board native american pottery artifacts followed by 559 people on pinterest.

In the pensacola culture of florida broken potsherds were rounded off and reused as discoidal game pieces from wikipedia. Potter researcher in anthropology at the university of alabama wrote the following comments in his abstract regarding his work at the mound of phil archaeological park. Modified ceramic disks have been recovered from historic era sites across the americas. Larger biconcave stone discs four to five inches in diameter called chunkey stones were used by mississippian societies of the southeastern part of the continent in a game of the same name.

The discoidals resemble old style ceramic or brass doorknobs in size and shape and are sometimes simply referred to as doorknobs by artifact collectors. 1994 florida s first people. Florida anthropological society publications number 6. Thomas potter and ian brown published a paper entitled the ceramic discoidal in the southeastern united states in the university of alabama mcnair journal.

Its origins context and significance. Potter ian w. Here we examine these interpretations in light of collections from three colonial era sites in central california. See more ideas about native american pottery artifacts indian pottery.

Mission san antonio de padua mission san josé and the. Here s the abstract for the ceramic discoidal in the southeastern united states by thomas a.