Southeastern Woodland Ceramics

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Southeastern woodland ceramics. See more ideas about pottery indian pottery native american pottery. Deptford ceramics continued to be made and found on middle woodland sites in the southeast up through about a d. Avonlea besant and south. Like the archaic period each woodland sub period represents a slightly different way of life.

The inspiration for these decorative techniques almost certainly lies to the southeast in the woodland cultures of the lower mississippi valley lmv. Pottery first appears in illinois during the early woodland. This classification is a part of the eastern woodlands. As the native american population in southern new england increased and groups began to live in one place for longer periods of time there is a corresponding increase in the stylistic diversity of ceramic.

500 with marksville pottery incised stamped and puncated designs were common. The woodland period is divided into early 3 000 to 2 200 years ago middle 2 200 to 1 800 years ago and late 1 800 to 1 250 years ago sub periods. The beginning of the middle woodland saw a shift of settlement to the interior. Beginning with tchefuncte pottery 800 200 b c and continuing on into the middle woodland period 200 b c.

The term eastern woodland cultures refers to the early agriculturists east of. This book the third in a series of edited volumes on southeastern archaeology is a richly detailed synthesis of what is known about the woodland period in the southeastern united states that is the time between the end of the archaic period roughly 3 000 years or so before the present and the rise of the mississippian cultures in much of the southeast around 900 1000 a d. As the woodland period progressed local and inter regional trade of exotic materials greatly increased to the point where a trade network covered most of the eastern woodlands throughout the southeast and north of the ohio river burial mounds of important people were very elaborate and contained a variety of. The early woodland deptford ceramics appear to have developed in georgia circa 800 b c out of the early woodland refuge phase 1000 to 500 b c and spread north into the carolinas and south into florida.

By the end of the middle woodland period 1200 years ago there was an increase in the diversity and complexity of designs placed on pottery. From there the technology of ceramic production spread to other cultures on the great plains where it occurs as early as ad 300. This archaeological designation is often mistakenly conflated with the eco cultural delineation of the continent s eastern culture areas. Outside of the southwest northern america s early agriculturists are typically referred to as woodland cultures.

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