Ware Plain
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: An Early Woodland, flat-bottom vessels, exhibiting crushed-quartz temper, hand-modeled construction, and lug handles. Chronology: Considered to be Early Woodland, 1200 to 800 BCE, one type of the selection […]
Waterlily Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Waterlily Ware is an Early Woodland ceramic composed of one type, plain. The vessels are oval with flat bottoms, tempered with shell, and exhibit lug handles. Chronology: Waterlily […]
Selden Island Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Selden Island is an Early Woodland ware characterized by steatite temper and a cord-marked exterior. Chronology: Early Woodland, 1000 to 500 BCE. A radiometric date of 1005 +/-90 […]
Marcey Creek
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Marcey Creek is an Early Woodland ware characterized by crushed steatite temper, rough and unevenly smoothed exterior and interior surfaces. Vessels have a flat base with a […]
Elk Island Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Elk Island Ware is an Early Woodland very friable and fragile ware with a large proportion of inclusive fine sand. The surface treatments are plain, cord, and […]
Hyco Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Hyco Ware is an Early Woodland fine sandtempered pottery with plain, cord, and fabric surface treatments. The rim forms a straight wall with the body and the […]
Croaker Landing Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Croaker Landing Ware is one of the earliest pottery in Virginia and dates from the Early Woodland. Surface treatment is mainly plain and some cord markings. The […]
Bushnell Ware
Period: Early Woodland Defining Attributes: Bushnell Ware, consisting of the single type Bushnell Plain, is one of the earliest pottery in Virginia and dates from 1200 to1000 BCE. The type is characterized […]
