Background

Named after Orange County, Florida, by James B. Griffin.

Sorting Criteria

Incising on fiber-tempered pottery.

Designs include nested chevrons, nested squares or diamonds, hatched oblique lines in a band, or triangular area with oblique hatching.

Rims are simple and straight with a rounded or slightly flattened lip.

Chronological Range

Late Archaic-Early Woodland, Orange period.

Geographical Range

This is a Florida type, found along the St Johns River and sporadically along the coast.

It occurs in extreme southeastern Georgia on Cumberland Island.

References

Griffin 1945:219.

Sears and Griffin 1950.

Ferguson 1951:19-22.

Goggin 1952:98.