Background

Named after the Oemler site in Chatham County by Antonio Waring.

Sorting Criteria

Complicated stamping on sand-tempered pottery.

Designs include nested diamonds, herring bone shapes, alternating zones of triangle-filled pyramids, and rows of diamond-shaped lozenges separated by heavy lines.

No curvilinear stamping is found for this type.

Rims are straight to slightly flaring, sometimes sharply everted.

Lips are rounded to squared, often forming a broad flat lip. .

Vessel forms are cylindrical jars and bases are rounded.

Chronological Range

Early Woodland.

Geographical Range

The northern Georgia Coast.

References

Waring 1966:2.

DePratter 1991:173-174.