Early Woodland Plain-Surface Pottery from the Mid-Ohio Valley: Two Recently Excavated Assemblages from Ohio and Kentucky.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Purtill, Matthew P.
- Source
- Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology (Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.); Spring2008, Vol. 33 Issue 1, p41-71, 31p
- Subject
- CERAMICS
WOODLAND culture
ARCHAEOLOGY
HISTORY
- Language
- ISSN
- 01461109
The article looks at a study of ceramic assemblages from the Mid-Ohio Valley area during the Early Woodland period. Ceramics uncovered in Lawrence County, Ohio, and Boone County, Kentucky are analyzed. An example of the analytical potential of using a trait-based approach to studies of Early Woodland period ceramics is presented. Measurement of average body sherd thickness in ceramics is considered to be a promising method of dating assemblages from the period. Typologies used by archaeologists in the Mid-Ohio Valley to account for ceramic attribute variations are discussed.