Hostname: page-component-686fd747b7-dj48d Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2025-02-13T14:00:39.708Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

The Concept of Trait Constellations as Illustrated in Eastern North American Ceramics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Alice B. Kehoe
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

Selected key traits are discussed as illustrations of the ceramic constellations of the Woodland and Mississippi traditions. Surface texturing is shown to be the dominant Woodland ceramic trait and an interest in vessel form, the dominant Mississippi trait. It is pointed out that the constellations outlined as characteristic of the two North American traditions can be observed in the early ceramic complexes of the Mediterranean region as early as the sixth millennium B.C.

Type
Facts and Comments
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 30 , Issue 1 , July 1964 , pp. 86 - 89
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1964

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Arnal, Jean, Bailloud, Gérard, and Riquet, Raymond 1960 Les styles céramiques du neolithique français. Prehistoire, Tome 14. Paris.Google Scholar
Holmes, W. H. 1903 Aboriginal Pottery of the Eastern United States. Twentieth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology. Washington.Google Scholar
Piggott, Stuart (Editor) 1961 The Dawn of Civilization. McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York.Google Scholar
Rouse, Irving 1960 The Classification of Artifacts in Archaeology. American Antiquity, Vol. 25, No. 3, pp. 313–23. Salt Lake City.CrossRefGoogle Scholar