Were the Fiber-Tempered Sherds from Claiborne (22Ha201) Made at the Site?

Summary

This is an abstract from the "*SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research" session, at the 89th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

This presentation discusses the preliminary results of our study concerning fiber-tempered sherds from six loci in the Southeast in order to determine if any of the fiber-tempered pottery found at Claiborne, a Poverty Point culture site in coastal Mississippi, were made locally or imported. We analyzed such pottery and soil samples from the Wheeler Basin (Metzger site), south-central Louisiana (Ruth Canal site), the Savannah River (Stallings Island), the St. Johns River (Tick Island), the Apalachicola area in Florida, and Claiborne itself. We addressed this question using two techniques, petrographic thin sections and pXRF analysis, the results of which are discussed.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 89th Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA (2024)   •
• *SE Not Your Father’s Poverty Point: Rewriting Old Narratives through New Research

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Abstract Id(s): 38329.0