Background

Named for the Savannah River and the city of Savannah by Joseph Caldwell and Antonio Waring.

Sorting Criteria

Burnished grit-tempered pottery.

This type has a wide variation of vessel forms.

The most common forms are carinated, shallow, and hemispherical bowls.

Rims are incurving or straight and sometimes flaring.

Lips are rounded, squared, or rounded-squared.

Chronological Range

Middle Mississippian, Savannah period.

Geographical Range

The entire state of Georgia.

References

Caldwell and Waring 1939a:7.

Caldwell and McCann 1941:45-46.