The Little Manatee Zoned Stamped type is a Late Woodland pottery type from the Southern part of central Gulf Coast and the Manatee region. According to Wiley 1949:443, the type possesses the "Soft temperless ware of the St. Johns or Biscayne variety". A unique characteristic of the Little Manatee Zoned Stamped type is that it appeared to have been incised and dentate-stamped when the clay was soft and unfired (Willey 1949:443)

As described by Willey 1949:443-444

Definition as a type: Southern part of central Gulf Coast and the Manatee region

Ware characteristics: Soft temperless ware of the St. Johns or Biscayne variety. Identical with Papys Bayou and St. John or Biscayne Series.

Decoration:

Technique: Incision and dentate stamping on soft, unfired clay of vessel. Incised lines were round-bottomed and 2 to 3 mm. wide. The dentate stamp is applied direct and not in rocker-fashion. Unit of stamp would appear to be a single row of four or five teeth. The dentate unit was impressed in close-spaced punctations or dots.

Design: Rectangular zones 2 to 4 cm. in width which are made by outlining with incision. They are arranged checkerboard fashion and alternate as plain rectangles and rectangles filled with dentate stamping. (Pl. 36, g, h; pl. 37, e, f.).

Distribution: Probably confined to upper one-half or two-thirds of exterior vessel walls.

Form: Large vessels suggested. Deep bowl or pot form. Slightly outslanting or incurving walls and rims which thicken to exterior (fig. 43, right). Lips almost flat.

Geographical range of type: Tampa Bay and Manatee region. Occasionally found farther north and sometimes eastward to the St. Johns area.

Chronological position of type: Weeden Island II and possibly earlier.

Relationship of type: Probably related to Alligator Bayou Stamped of the Santa Rosa-Swift Creek Period.