A Reclassification of the High Plains Upper Republican Ceramics from Buick Campsite: Buick Collared and Buick Straight

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ceramics from Buick Campsite (5EL1), a High Plains Upper Republican open camp in eastern Colorado, were previously classified as Frontier and Cambridge ware of the Central Plains Tradition Upper Republican Culture. However, analyses of 568 sherds from excavations and surface collections indicate that vessel morphology was significantly different than vessels from Mowry Bluff (25FT35), the type site of Frontier and Cambridge ware. Buick Campsite vessels were mass modeled from the bottom up using local clays and temper, had thicker parabolic bottoms, thicker base walls, high rounded shoulders, and a taller rim and lip than Frontier and Cambridge types. While Buick Campsite ceramics resemble Central Plains Upper Republican wares in rim and lip morphology and decoration, they differ from them in shape, size, and essential details of manufacture. These differences are sufficient to propose that the ceramics from Buick Campsite be termed Buick collared and Buick straight types of High Plains Upper Republican ware and the ceramics from Mowry Bluff be identified as Frontier and Cambridge types of Central Plains Upper Republican ware. In this way the differences in size and shape generated by variations in production are identified by type names, while similarities in appearance are identified by ware designation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• SAA 2023: Individual Abstracts   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 36287.0