Background

Named after the Irene site, 9Ch1, in the northern portion of Savannah excavated in the late 1930s.

Sorting Criteria

Plain grit-tempered pottery.

Known vessel forms include wide-mouthed bowls, hemispherical bowls and elongated globular vessels.

Rims are incurving, straight, or flared.

Lips are rounded or squared.

Bases are round or flat.

Chronological Range

Late Mississippian; Early Lamar Irene period.

Geographical Range

The name for this type is not used anywhere else but on the Georgia Coast.

References

Caldwell and Waring 1939a:2.

Caldwell and McCann 1941:48-49.