Ceramic Discoidal In The Southeastern United States

Modified ceramic disks have been recovered from historic era sites across the americas.

Ceramic discoidal in the southeastern united states.

Potter ian w. And ceramic technology laboratory publications. The florida museum ceramic technology laboratory was established in 1977 under the direction of dr. Interesting question wayne and i would love to hear what others may have to say.

1994 florida s first people. Prudence rice then uf professor of anthropology now distinguished professor emerita at siu carbondale il from 1979 to 2017 the lab was overseen by ann cordell who also conducted most of the research projects undertaken by the lab. See more ideas about native american pottery artifacts indian pottery. The appearance of ceramics in the southeastern united states does not fit the above pattern.

Ceramics from the middle savannah river in georgia and south carolina known as stallings stallings island or st. 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. Mission san antonio de padua mission san josé and the. 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. Small unperforated disks are commonly interpreted as gaming pieces and larger perforated disks are often classified as spindle whorls. 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. In the pensacola culture of florida broken potsherds were rounded off and reused as discoidal game pieces from wikipedia.

Dec 20 2015 explore kat smotherman s board native american pottery artifacts followed by 559 people on pinterest. The ceramic discoidal in the southeastern united states. Brown ph d professor of anthropology published in the university of alabama mcnair journal. Here we examine these interpretations in light of collections from three colonial era sites in central california.

Florida anthropological society publications number 6. The discoidals resemble old style ceramic or brass doorknobs in size and shape and are sometimes simply referred to as doorknobs by artifact collectors.