Little Manatee Shell Stamped | The Pan-American Ceramics Project

Type: Little Manatee Shell Stamped

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Little Manatee Shell S...

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Date BCE/CE:

AD 700 – 900

Period:

Late Woodland

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General Information

The Little Manatee Shell Stamped type is from the Weeden Island cultural period. The paste is tempered with sponge spicules inclusions. The vessel decoration is impressed.

This description of Little Manatee Shell Stamped comes from the Ceramic Technology Lab maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Fabric Description

The paste is tempered...

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Related Illustrations 1

Little Manatee Shell Stamped (photo by P. Payne).

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Petrographic Samples 0

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Description

The paste is tempered with sponge spicules inclusions. The vessel decoration is impressed.

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Little Manatee Series

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Ware name:

Weeden Island

Date:

600-900

Period:

Late Woodland

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Bibliography

Gordon R. Willey. Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1949a
John M. Goggin, 1952 Space and Time Perspective in Northern St. Johns Archeology, Florida.. Department of Anthropology, Yale University, New Haven.
Lindsey Bloch, Ann Cordell, and Neill Wallis. Pre-Columbian Pottery Types Gallery, 2023. April 6, 2023. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ceramiclab/pottery-types-gallery/

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