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CERAMIC PETROGRAPHY and HOPEWELL INTERACTION A Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication CERAMIC PETROGRAPHY and HOPEWELL INTERACTION James B. Stoltman THE UNIVERSITY OF ALA BAMA PRESS Tuscaloosa The University of Alab ama Press Tuscaloosa, Ala bama 35487- 0380 uapress.ua.edu Copyright © 2015 by the University of Ala bama Press All rights reserved. Inquiries about reproducing material from this work should be addressed to the University of Alab ama Press. Typeface: Bembo and Myriad Manufactured in the United States of America Cover photograph: Photomicrograph of granite- tempered vessel 40- 8 from Icehouse Bottom; courtesy of James B. Stoltman. Cover design: Todd Lape/Lape Designs Ebook editions of this title feature color illustrations for figures 1.1, 2.4–2.5, 2.9–2.10, 2.12, 3.3, 5.1, 5.3, 5.5–5.8, 6.1–6.2, 6.4, 7.1, 8.1–8.2, 9.1–9.3, and 10.1. ∞ The paper on which this book is printed meets the minimum requirements of Ameri can National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1 984. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stoltman, James B., 1935– Ceramic petrography and Hopewell interaction / James B. Stoltman. pages cm Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8173-1859-8 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8173-8807-2 (e book) 1. Hopewell culture. 2. Petrology in archaeology. 3. Indian pottery— Analysis. 4. Ceramics—Analysis. 5. Indians of North America—Antiquities. I. Title. E99.H69S76 2015 970.004'97—dc23 2014034310 For Sallie who was always there along the way Contents List of Illustrations ix Acknowledgments xvii Introduction 1 1. Methodology 8 2. Ohio Hopewell 17 3. The Mann Site in Posey County, Indiana 70 4. South ern Illinois 91 5. The Blue Ridge Province of North Carolina and Tennessee 96 6. The Appalachian Plateau and Ridge and Valley Provinces of Northwest Georgia 114 7. The Coastal Plain of Georgia and Florida 128 8. Limestone- Tempered Pottery in Middle Woodland Contexts in the South east and the Ohio Valley Region 138 9. Pinson Mounds Revisited 151 10. The Sources of the “Possibly Nonlocal” Vessels Recovered from the Ohio Valley Sites 161 11. Summary and Conclusions 187 References Cited 195 Index 205 Illustrations FIGURES 1.1. Two views of thin section 33- 286 (at 10X) from the Turner Site showing differences between views under plane- polarized light versus crossed polars. 10 2.1. Map showing locations of all sites in Ohio for which thin section samples were analyzed in this study. 18 2.2. Examples of Hope wellian- series sherds from the Liberty Site (Harness). 19 2.3. Selected South east ern- series sherds from Seip. 20 2.4. Photomicrograph of granite temper in Seip vessel 33- 201 taken at 10X magnification under crossed polars. 39 2.5. Photomicrograph of granite and limestone tempers in Vessel 33- 100 (McGraw Plain) from Mound City taken at 10X magnification under crossed polars. 41 2.6. Ternary graph showing the mean paste values for all Ohio sites by ceramic series plotted against the clay recovered beneath the Hopeton earthworks and the three Minford clay samples. 45 2.7. Ternary graph showing the paste values for 17 sediment samples from the Chillicothe region plotted against the paste mean for 122 local Hopewell vessels. 48 2.8. Ternary graph showing the paste values for each of the 19 Turner- series vessels from Ohio sites plus the tetrapodal base from Seip plotted against the sediment recovered from beneath the Hopeton Earthworks. 50 2.9. Photomicrograph of metagranite temper in local Vessel 33- 291 from Marietta taken at 10X magnification under crossed polars. 53 2.10. Photomicrograph of grit- tempered grog in local Vessel 33- 211 from Tremper taken at 10X magnification under crossed polars. 58

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Petrography is the microscopic examination of thin sections of pottery to determine their precise mineralogical composition. In this groundbreaking work, James B. Stoltman applies quantitative as well as qualitative methods to the petrography of Native American ceramics. As explained in Ceramic Petr
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