Wright Check Stamped
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Wright Check Stamped, Bluff Creek Simple Stamped, and Mulberry Creek Plain are considered for this discussion types of the same Middle Woodland ware that is thick, limestone […]
Wythe Ware
Period: Late Woodland Defining Attributes: Wythe Ware is a Late Woodland sandtempered pottery with mainly knotted net, cord, corn cob, and plain surfaces. Interior scraped marks remain on many of the sherds. […]
Smyth Ware
Period: Late Woodland Defining Attributes: Smyth Ware is a Late Woodland soapstone tempered pottery with net, corn cob, plain and scraped surfaces. Punctations, criss-crossing incisions, and gashes are rare decoration. Chronology: Holland estimated […]
Swannanoa Ware
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Swannanoa Ware is an early Middle Woodland crushed-quartz to coarse sand tempered pottery with cord and fabric surface treatments. Rims are vertical to the conical body and […]
Radford Ware
Period: Late Woodland Defining Attributes: Radford Ware is a Late Woodland limestonetempered pottery with net, cord, corn cob, and plain surface treatments. Round globular jars are decorated along the rim with finger […]
Pisgah Ware
Period: Late Woodland Defining Attributes: Rectilinear complicated stamping on a sandtemper body with thickened rims decorated with rows of short diagonal slits and gashes. Chronology: The ware probably dates from 1000 to 1450 […]
Mulberry Creek Plain Ware
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Wright Check Stamped, Bluff Creek Simple Stamped, and Mulberry Creek Plain are considered for this discussion types of the same Middle Woodland ware that is thick, limestonetempered, […]
New River Ware
Period: Late Woodland Defining Attributes: New River Ware is a Late Woodland shelltempered ware with cord, net and plain surface treatments, finger pinching and gashes along the rim, and occasional strap handles. […]
Nomini Ware
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Nomini Ware, dating from 700 to 900 CE, consists of two types, Nomini Cord Marked and Nomini Fabric Impressed. The undecorated vessels were probably large, conical, with […]
Long Branch Fabric Marked Ware
Period: Middle Woodland Defining Attributes: Long Branch Fabric Marked Ware is an early Middle Woodland ceramic that is fabric marked with limestone temper. Decoration is rare. Chronology: Long Branch Fabric Marked Ware has […]
