Typology - St. Francis Objects
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The next activity is a frequency seriation for ten archaeological sites in eastern Arkansas, located northeast of the Poverty Point site (see map). Phillip Phillips, James Ford and James Griffin,who surveyed the Lower Mississippi Valley during the 1940s, collected the data used in this seriation. {7} We will focus on 5 types of ceramics found at these sites: Mulberry Creek Cord Marked, Baytown Plain, Parkin Punctated, Barton Incised, and Old Town Red.
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Mulberry Creek Cord-Marked |
Baytown Plain |
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Parkin Punctated |
Barton Incised |
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Old Town Red |
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This map shows the sites used in the next activity. The green dots indicate the sites we are using.
| 11-N-4 | Neeley's Ferry | 12-N-7 | Lansing |
| 11-N-15 | Fortune | 11-O-7 | Lewis |
| 11-N-9 | Vernon Paul | 11-N-2 | Rogers |
| 11-N-1 | Parkin | 11-N-3 | Roberts |
| 12-N-3 | Rose | 12-N-15 | Swan |
| 12-N-12 | Widener Cemetery | 12-N-9 | Burns |
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Interactive ActivityUnfortunately we cannot create a seriation of
the Poverty Point Objects, because there are
only two types (Biconical and Cylindrical Grooved)
that are good temporal markers (you need at
least three types to make it work). To
give you practice with how seriation works,
we will use a pottery example from the American Southeast.
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