Background

This type is Gordon Willey's name for a variety of Swift Creek Complicated Stamped that occurred in quantity in northwestern Florida.

Sorting Criteria

Complicated stamping on grit-tempered pottery, frequently with check stamping associated in the same design.

The designs cover the entire exteriors of vessels.

Rims are slightly out flared and lips are round-pointed and flat-round.

Chronological Range

Middle Woodland, Santa-Rosa-Swift Creek period.

Geographical Range

Northwestern Florida Gulf Coast and presumably southern Georgia.

References

Willey 1949:386.