Aspects of Carved Paddle Stamped Designs from the Middle Mississippi Period

Summary

Complicated stamped pottery vessels, and the carved wooden paddles used to stamp them, were produced in Southeastern North America beginning early in the first millennium AD and continued in some quarters well into the 19th century. Much of the research on paddle designs has focused on the highly decorative and diverse Woodland Period expressions, with little attention given to later, more repetitive paddle stamps. In this paper, I bring the methods of analysis used to study Woodland paddle designs to bear on 13th-century paddle stamps from the Sandy Hammock site in southern central Georgia. By examining design variability at the scale of the individual paddle, inferences about household level production and, ultimately, social interaction can be made.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)   •
• Investigating Interaction from Tunnacunnhee to Talaje: Papers in Honor of Richard W. Jefferies

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Abstract Id(s): 17065