Contents
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
1. Introduction: Themes in Early Pottery Research / Rebecca Saunders and Christopher T. Hays
2. Common Origins and Divergent Histories in the Early Pottery Traditions of the American Southeast / Kenneth E. Sassaman
3. Spatial Variation in Orange Culture Pottery: Interaction and Function / Rebecca Saunders
4. Paste Variability and Possible Manufacturing Origins of Late Archaic Fiber-Tempered Pottery from Selected Sites in Peninsular Florida / Ann S. Cordell
5. The Emergence of Pottery in South Florida / Michael Russo and Gregory Heide
6. Fiber-Tempered Pottery and Cultural Interaction on the Northwest Florida Gulf Coast / L. Janice Campbell, Prentice M. Thomas, Jr., and James H. Mathews
7. Early Pottery at Poverty Point: Origins and Functions / Christopher T. Hays and Richard A. Weinstein
8. In the Beginning: Social Contexts of First Pottery in the Lower Mississippi Valley / Jon L. Gibson and Mark A. Melancon
9. Petrographic Thin-Section Analysis of Poverty Point Pottery / Anthony L. Ortmann and Tristram R. Kidder
10. Did Poverty Pointers Make Pots? / James B. Stoltman
Notes
References
Contributors
Index