Characterizing Ceramic Paste Recipes at the Spring Warrior Complex (8TA154): Insights into Middle to Late Woodland Ceramic Technology.

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Ceramic paste recipes (e.g., variations in inclusion types, sizes, and frequencies) have the ability to show shifts in communities of practice through the choices made at the micro- and macro-scales. By integrating morphological and stylistic data with paste analysis, this research contributes to a more nuanced understanding of technological and cultural dynamics at the Spring Warrior Complex (8TA154) located along the Florida Gulf Coast. The results provide significant insights into how material culture changes in response to social and environmental changes, offering a richer perspective on the historical development of ceramic traditions in the southeastern United States. Recent re-evaluation of legacy pottery collections, combined with new excavations from the site, have revealed an east-to-west spatial trend in the site's occupation from 200 to 1000 CE, covering the transition from the Swift Creek (Middle Woodland) to the Weeden Island (Late Woodland) periods. This paper presents an investigation of ceramic pastes using Dino-Lite imagery, aiming to elucidate the relationships between paste recipes and the observed spatial and temporal patterns in ceramic technology.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• Ceramic Petrographers in the Americas, Production Practices and Social Networks from Multilevel Angles

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Abstract Id(s): 52199