✅ SOLVED Find the pottery game

[rock]

I hope everyone will play along. Rack did the point game and Ill do the pottery game. There is 3 piles and only 1 pile is pottery. I find so much lookalike pottery in the creek. See if you can pick the rite pile. This will be fun.
1, 2 or 3 your choice and one pile is really pottery shards.
Lets see your skills, rock

 

[The Grim Reaper]

I don't see any that look like Pottery to me. At least not like any Pottery I have ever seen.

 

[rock]

I don't see any that look like Pottery to me. At least not like any Pottery I have ever seen.

Come to GA then.

 

[GatorBoy]

I said I found pottery in Georgia ..I figured I should back up my claim.
I have more but just picked out different material temper and design ..like paddle marked,corn cob marked and incised.
I just noticed I forgot a cord marked piece..oops.

 

[GatorBoy]

 

[bilt46]

I learned about what I found here not to long ago...I believe it will be pic # 1...BillT,

 

[dbag1969]

Come to GA then.

That's a nice piece

 

[rock]

I said I found pottery in Georgia ..I figured I should back up my claim.
I have more but just picked out different material temper and design ..like paddle marked,corn cob marked and incised.
I just noticed I forgot a cord marked piece..oops.

Which one is the corn cob marked? I found some today that was rough feeling to the touch. Id put a pic up but I sent to Heather today.

 

[GatorBoy]

This one

 

[rock]

Ok I found one like that the other day when the yak tipped over. I thought it was fabric print. I guess not, lol.

 

[GatorBoy]

You may have found paddle marked..its similar if it was a check stamp pattern.
Or even cord marked..incised..there is many known styles

 

[rock]

Check this piece out and tell what it is.

 

[GatorBoy]

That's paddle marked. "Check stamp" .. see how the lines are raised? Grooves were carved into a paddle... then that paddle was pressed into the pottery leaving those raised lines.



I discovered a while back just how much information about your area and its connection with other areas can be learned by the pottery found so I spent quite a bit of time studying that subject.
If you want to get good at knowing the pottery in your state be prepared to do a lot of reading.. it gets way more intricate than you would think... and definitely more then I will type out on a keyboard.

 

[rock]

Loyd Schyroder came out with a new book on pottery from GA this yr. I havent got it yet but hope to soon.

 

[GatorBoy]

Here is just a for instance....
Pottery is almost always the first thing found on a site that's of that time period.
By knowing what type of pottery came from where you can pretty accurately determine what types of lithic material should be present on that site... without ever finding a piece of stone.

 

[Tnmountains]

Here is just a for instance....
Pottery is almost always the first thing found on a site that's of that time period.
By knowing what type of pottery came from where you can pretty accurately determine what types of lithic material should be present on that site... without ever finding a piece of stone.

Unless it was multi occupational site say like a lot of islands are. Tons of pottery but stone back to Paleo. But you are right though as people spread out and villages appeared the pottery can be your quickest determination of age in my humble opinion.Depending upon what you are looking for you may not want to see pottery. You want to find pottery hunt good water.

Pottery is probably one of the more complicated things to study especially if you start including anasazi and west coast it is beyond me. But again like Gator said if learning pottery in the east and south start with the Peach state. Go Vols!

 

[NC field hunter]

I was the 1st one to call 3 "#3 as I think I see some concave form indicating a vessel of some sort......tough to tell without handling. #2 looks like limestone." Sep 06, 2013, 10:32 PM

What do I win?

You win ....... The contents of photos #1&#2!! Congratulations!!

 

[Tnmountains]

Fun thread rock. Here are some pottery pieces from a friends farm. I have more but this has maybe two vessels in there if I put them together. I goofed and added to it. Slowly separating it out. The one you have as your avatar is really nice. I only have 2 complete pots hopefully I will build another out of this mess This is about 40 maybe 50 lbs worth. Stuff is heavier than it looks.



HH

 

[GatorBoy]

Hey TN.. it wouldn't be any less diagnostic on a multi-ocupational site..it would just be part of a larger collection of information.

 

[larson1951]

well since i see lots of cool pottery getting posted i thought i would show you'all this mandan pot i have with tnetter russy (CRpoint) holding it

 

[rock]

well since i see lots of cool pottery getting posted i thought i would show you'all this mandan pot i have with tnetter russy (CRpoint) holding it

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Thats a nice looking vessel did you guys find it?