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Technological Analysis of Prehistoric Lower Mississippi Ceramic Materials: A Preliminary Report*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Elizabeth C. Weaver
Elizabeth C. Weaver*
Affiliation:
Peabody Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
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Abstract

Technological analysis of ceramic materials from the early phases of the Lower Mississippi area indicates that Tchula pottery is untempered, and this throws doubt upon the concept of a fiber-tempered horizon in the Southeast. Certain recommendations are made for technological studies which include the use of close-up photography during the study and in the final report.

Type
Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , July 1963 , pp. 49 - 56
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1963

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Footnotes

*

This work was undertaken while I was Associate Scholar of the Radcliffe Institute for Independent Study. Part of the study was supported by a grant from the Milton Fund of Harvard University.

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