Background

This is plain fiber-tempered pottery from the lower Georgia Coast.

The name Stallings has come to be more used for fiber-tempered pottery everywhere in Georgia, except perhaps the Georgia Coast.

Sorting Criteria

Plain fiber-tempered pottery

Vessel form is a simple bowl shape.

Rims are straight or slightly incurving.

Lips are rounded or flattened; sometimes thickened.

Bases are rounded or flattened.

Chronological Range

Late Archaic.

Geographical Range

Comparable to types found from Charleston, South Carolina, to the lower St. Johns River in Florida, and at Stallings Island on the Savannah River, and from east-central Georgia.

References

Caldwell and McCann 1941:50-51.

Willey 1949:359-360.

DePratter 1991:159.

Williams 1967:103-105.