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7 Ceramic Sequence for Eastern North Carolina Previous chapters have detailed information regarding the pottery types found at several key sites. In this chapter, that information is placed in the broader context of all published chronometric information for pottery from any site on the North Carolina Coastal Plain. The types discussed are those described in the siteassemblage sketches presented in Chapters 4, 5, and 6, with relevant chronometric data presented from several additional sites (Figure 7.1). A comparison of the regional pottery sequences for each of the three environmental provinces (Sandhills , Sea Island, and Embayed sections) is presented (Figure 7.2) and all chronometric data for sites in the North Carolina Coastal Plain are illustrated in the charts presented in Figure 7.3 (the Embayed Section) and Figure 7.4 (the Sea Island Section and Sandhills). Early Woodland Period Pottery Series (2200–400 b.c.) Stallings At present, all fiber-tempered pottery found in coastal North Carolina is classified to the Stallings series, although fiber-tempered pottery has yet to be dated from any North Carolina site. In South Carolina it has been found to range in age from 2500 b.c. to 1100 b.c. (Griffin 1943; Sassaman 1993; Stoltman 1972, 1974) and it is expected that when dating opportunities arise in North Carolina it will be found to date to this period. Marcey Creek Soapstone-tempered pottery, originally defined as the Marcey Creek series in the Potomac Basin (Egloff and Potter 1982; Evans 1955; Manson 1948), is thought to date to 1200–800 b.c., although it has yet to be dated at any site in North Carolina. Ceramic Sequence for Eastern North Carolina 117 Croaker Landing Apparently contemporary with the Marcey Creek series is the clay/grog-tempered Croaker Landing series (Egloff and Potter 1982; Egloff et al. 1988; Evans 1955; Pullins et al. 1996) (Figure 7.2). Croaker Landing specimens are well represented at the Davenport site (Figure 7.1, location 9) on the Chowan River in Bertie County and other sites in the Albemarle Sound area (Byrd 1999) but have yet to be dated at any site in North Carolina. Figure 7.1. Location of sites discussed in the text and tables: (1) Battle Park; (2) Baum; (3) Broad Reach; (4) Buie Mound; (5) Cape Island; (6) Cold Morning; (7) 31CD551; (8) 31CD622; (9) Davenport; (10) Doerschuk; (11) Fishing Creek; (12) Gaston; (13) Hammocks Beach West; (14) Hamp’s Landing; (15) Jordan’s Landing; (16) Lake Phelps Canoe; (17) Liberty Hill; (18) McLean Mound; (19) 31MR93; (20) Neoheroka Fort; (21) 31ON542; (22) 31ON596; (23) Papanow; (24) Permuda Island; (25) Point Harbor; (26) PondTrail; (27) Riegelwood; (28) Rush Point; (29) Sans Souci; (30) Sidney Brook; (31) Thorpe; (32)Tillett; (33)Tower Hill; (34)Town Creek; (35) Uniflite. 118 Chapter 7 Hamp’s Landing Hamp’s Landing has been proposed as an Early Woodland or early Middle Woodland type (Hargrove 1993; Hargrove and Eastman 1997, 1998; Herbert and Mathis 1996; Mathis 1999). At the type site (Figure 7.1, location 14), Hamp’s Landing series pottery was found in stratigraphic context between, and overlapping with, Thom’s Creek and Middle Woodland period Hanover types (Hargrove 1993). Three subsequent radiocarbon dates for Hamp’s Landing sherds suggest that this series is earlier than first thought (Figure 7.4). Figure 7.2. Regional ceramic sequences of the Coastal Plain and eastern Piedmont of North Carolina. Figure 7.3. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates associated with pottery from sites in the Embayed Section of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Error bars are twosigma ranges. Figure 7.4. Radiocarbon and thermoluminescence dates associated with pottery from sites in the Sea Island and Sandhills sections of the Coastal Plain of North Carolina. Error bars are twosigma ranges. Ceramic Sequence for Eastern North Carolina 121 A feature containing nearly 66 fragments of a partially reconstructable Hamp’s Landing Fabric Impressed vessel was found in a refuse-filled pit at the Cape Island site in Onslow County (Figure 7.1, location 5) and radiocarbon dated to 3610 ± 70 b.p. (2145–1760 cal b.c. [p = .05]) (Jones et al. 1997) (Table 7.1). This was “dismissed as a spurious date” by Jones et al. (1997:38). It is, in fact, very similar to the two 14 C dates secured from features containing Hamp’s Landing series sherds at the Riegelwood site in Columbus County (Abbott et al. 1999) and seems acceptable if Hamp’s Landing is assumed contemporaneous...

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