Type: Pasco Plain

Name, Origin, Date

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Pasco Plain

United States/Southeas...

100 CE - 1500 CE

Middle Woodland, Missi...

Earlier/Alternative Names

General Information

The Pasco Plain type is a Middle Woodland and Mississippian pottery type from central Florida and central Gulf Coast. According to Willey 1949:446-447, the type might be coiled, and possesses a limestone temper and coarse paste texture. 

Detail Attributes

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Morphological Attributes

Open and slightly cons...

Technological Attributes

Heavily tempered with ...

As described by Wil...

Fire clouding

Vessels  0

Break Photos  0

Petrographic Samples  0

Description

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As described by Willey 1949:446-447:


Definition as a type: By Goggin (1948a) from central Florida. The following description is a condensation of his account.


Ware characteristics: Probably coiled. Heavily tempered with fine to large limestone lumps. These often leach-out leaving holes in surface. Paste texture is coarse. Color ranges from gray to tan to black. Fire-clouded. Surfaces poorly smoothed and uneven.


Associated Wares/Ware Families

Weeden Island

600-900

Late Woodland


Associated Petrofabrics

Associated Kilns/Workshops

Bibliography

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  1. Gordon R. Willey. Archeology of the Florida Gulf Coast. Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution, 1949a

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