Indian Pottery and Cultural Chronology of the Mobile-Tensaw Basin and Alabama Coast

Title

Indian Pottery and Cultural Chronology of the Mobile-Tensaw Basin and Alabama Coast

Creator

Richard S. Fuller See all items with this value

Date

1998

Bibliographic Citation

Fuller, Richard S. 1998. Indian Pottery and Cultural Chronology of the Mobile-Tensaw Basin and Alabama Coast. Journal of Alabama Archaeology 44(1 & 2):1-51.

annotates

• Expanded the “Mississippi Choctaw” series defined in by Blitz and others across the northern Gulf coast.
• Equated Port Dauphin Incised as shell tempered cognate of Fatherland Incised.
• Interesting parsing of ceramic tempering and decorative motifs into “intrusive,” “transplanted,” and other actions that miss the nuance of cultural interactions.
• Applies LMV pottery series as “transplanted members” of Natchez and Choctaw peoples from Mississippi eastward.
• “Historic Period Choctaw” which he separates from the LMV and earlier Doctor Lake phases, which encompasses Chickachae Combed, and plain with a micaceous paste on bowls with direct rims and flattened lips (Fuller 1998:38).
• Mentions 1MB100 as a “good example” of a “later Choctaw” assemblage and the foundation of the series.
o 1MB100, Fort Stoddard or Fort Stoddert, was recorded by Rick Fuller, although if this was a volunteered site recording or part of a project is unclear from documentation. The fort was constructed in 1799 and abandoned by Euro-Americans in 1815. The site file narrative states that a ravine on the north side of the site produced Choctaw pottery and Euro-American artifacts as well as subsistence remains. Bricks were present and interpreted as remains of fort at the southern end of site.
• Also mention of 1BA380 (see Brose et al. 1983)
• Mentions 1MB61 (see Curren and Stowe 1971)
o Chicot Red, Port Dauphin Incised series, and Fuller connects the ceramics to the Natchez/Taensa ceramics of the Lower Mississippi Valley. Shorter (2001:61) mentions that Native American artifacts present at Fort Morgan appear to have been redeposited as a result of shell midden mining of sites on Dauphin Island, presumably including 1MB61 and 1MB221.
Shorter, George W., Jr.
2001 “Privies in Case of Siege:” Expeditions 21 and 22 at the Fort Morgan Citadel. University of South Alabama Monograph No. 10. The Alabama Historical Commission and the University of South Alabama Center for Archaeological Studies, Mobile.

Subject

Mississippi See all items with this value

Alabama See all items with this value

Ceramics See all items with this value

Chahta (Choctaw) See all items with this value

Combed See all items with this value

Port Dauphin See all items with this value

Natche (Natchez) See all items with this value

Doctor Lake See all items with this value

Combed See all items with this value

Gulf Coast See all items with this value

Coastal Plain See all items with this value

Rivers See all items with this value

Temporal Coverage

Precontact See all items with this value

Postcontact See all items with this value