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Caddoan Mississippian pottery on display at the Sam Noble Oklahoma Museum of Natural History. Pottery produced by the Caddoan Mississippian culture is some of the finest known in North America. It is usually found in the areas of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas and Oklahoma. [1]
George Ohr was born in Biloxi, Mississippi, on July 12, 1857.Ohr's parents were German immigrants who had arrived in New Orleans around 1850, his father had established the first blacksmith shop in Biloxi and his mother ran an early, popular grocery store there.
An assortment of pottery found at the site, on display at the site museum. The Winterville people made pottery by building up strips of clay, and then smoothing them out, much like other pottery in the Eastern American area where the potter's wheel was unknown. They tempered the pottery with ground mussel shell, grit, grog, and angular bits of ...
Upper Mississippian pottery is embedded with shells, which strengthens the ceramic material. [40] Upper Mississippian pottery usually comes in the form of globular, round-bottomed vessels commonly called “jars”, with restricted orifices and vertical to flared rim profiles.
During this time period, pottery making was introduced to them by peoples to their East, and by 500 CE the bow and arrow from peoples of the Southwest. By 800 CE early Caddoan society began to coalesce into one of the earlier Mississippian cultures. Some villages began to gain prominence as ritual centers.
The Plaquemine culture was an archaeological culture in the lower Mississippi River Valley in western Mississippi and eastern Louisiana. Good examples of this culture are the Medora site (the type site for the culture and period) in West Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana , and the Anna , Emerald Mound , Winterville and Holly Bluff sites located in ...
In 1966 Patricia Holden was the first to publish such an analysis of Pisgah pottery. [8] Pisgah phase pottery, unlike the vast majority of Mississippian culture pottery, used sand as a tempering agent instead of ground mussel shell. [11] The pottery is typified by collared rims and rectilinear, complicated stamp decoration. [12]
Hopewell pottery is the ceramic tradition of the various local cultures involved in the Hopewell tradition (ca. 200 BCE to 400 CE) [1] and are found as artifacts in archeological sites in the American Midwest and Southeast.