Background

Defined by Tom Lewis and Madeline Kneberg at the Hiwassee Island site in eastern Tennessee from their WPA excavations there.

Sorting Criteria

A painted design in red oxide paint on a plain buff surface background on finely ground shell-tempered pottery.

Vessel forms are shallow bowl shapes.

Rims are incurved or flared and lips are thickened and rounding.

Chronological Range

Middle to Late Mississippian?

Geographical Range

This type occurs in eastern Tennessee and northwestern Georgia.

Probably also occurs in northeastern Alabama and western North Carolina.

References

Lewis and Kneberg 1946:104.