Abstract

Robert A. Cook and Lane F. Fargher
Fort-Ancient-Mississippian Interaction and Shell-Tempered Pottery at SunWatch Village, Ohio
Journal of Field Archaeology 32 (2007) 149--160

The use of mussel shell for tempering pottery vessels by Fort Ancient societies is poorly understood. Suggestions have included both diffusion from neighboring Mississippian social groups and local developments, although no studies have investigated whether shell-tempered pottery is non-local or associated with Mississippian features and artifact types within Fort Ancient sites. This study begins to remedy this deficiency by examining the social and temporal contexts and petrographic composition of shell-tempered pottery at the SunWatch site, a Fort Ancient village located in sw Ohio that was occupied during the height of neighboring Mississippian developments (ca. A.D. 1150--1450). Our findings indicate that shell-tempered pottery was not produced locally and is linked with a village leader and Mississippian-inspired architecture.

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