Background

Named by Tom Lewis and Madeline Kneberg after an old name for the Tennessee River.

Like Marion Heimlich's Langston Fabric Impressed.

Sorting Criteria

Fabric marking on coarse shell-tempered pottery.

Chronological Range

Mississippian presumably.

Geographical Range

Found in the Tennessee and Cumberland River drainages and perhaps in northwestern Georgia.

References

Lewis and Kneberg?

Broyles 1967:37.