Lamar Bold Incised Ceramics

Both of these pottery types were made at the same time as lamar complicated stamped pottery.

Lamar bold incised ceramics.

Lamar bold incised. The employment of incised decoration was more common among the cherokees than among the catawbas. Incising done on upper part. There is far more undecorated or lamar plain pottery at the site then is usually present at similar sites dating to the same period.

This form would conform to john worth s columbia variant and is identical to lamar bold incised used during georgia s late mississippian period. Check stamping nearly disappears while lamar bold incised makes its first appearance albeit in low incidence. Reprinted with permission of the society for american. Incising on good quality grit tempered pottery.

Often the designs are simple scrolls. It has frequently been used as the equivalent of lamar bold incised which is the preferred name and it is commonly seen in the literature. Lamar archaeological site number 9 bi 2 period lamar culture mississippian description lamar bold incised bibb county georgia. Design motifs included concentric circles figure nines filfot crosses line blocks and herring bones.

Ceramic source type detail photographer original. Anthropology ceramics 2 types and time periods study. Late qualla phase jars from coweeta creek ca. Excurvate rim jar forms.

This angled or rounded bowl also exhibits complicated stamping with curvilinear and rectilinear elements. Not visually appealing looks roughened hard to see designs. Incised vessels dating to this period are characterized by simple designs formed using typically two or three broad lines. James ford and arthur kelly recognized lamar pottery in 1934 but in was not formally named until jesse jennings and charles fairbanks defined and named it in 1939.

Keel 1976 a rubric that encompasses. Image categories artifact function. Lamar bold incised research. Never been defined per se but is often used in conversation.

Ceramic series egloff 1967. Willey discussed its presence in florida in 1949. Incising is great than 2mm. Cazuela forms are common and exhibit a wide range of lamar bold incised motifs.

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