Research Catalog

Title

Ancestral Caddo ceramic traditions / edited by Duncan P. McKinnon, Jeffrey S. Girard, and Timothy K. Perttula.

Publication

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• McKinnon, Duncan P. (Duncan Paul), 1971-
• Girard, Jeffrey S.
• Perttula, Timothy K.

Description

xi, 356 pages : illustrations, maps; 27 cm

Summary

"The study of ceramics is a key part of understanding the lifeways and heritage of the Caddo peoples in ancestral and modern times. Ceramic vessels made for cooking, storage, and serving were of primary importance between c. 800 and the early nineteenth century to the Caddo peoples of Southwest Arkansas, Northwest Louisiana, Eastern Oklahoma, and East Texas, an extensive region known as the Caddo Archaeological Area. The Woodland period ancestors of the Caddos began manufacturing ceramics as long as 3000 years ago; several members of the modern Caddo Nation of Oklahoma continue that tradition to the present. This volume provides a much-needed combination of archaeological and modern Caddo potter perspectives on the artistic tradition of Caddo ceramics. It is the first volume of its kind for Caddo archaeology and arguably the first of its kind within the broader Southeastern archaeological region. Contributors discuss how Caddo potters made ceramics in a wide variety of vessel shapes, employing distinctive technological traditions of temper choice, surface finishing techniques, and firing conditions, along with an abundance of well-crafted and -executed body and rim designs and surface treatments. Stylistic motifs and decorative patterns indicated closely related communities as well as specific family lineages, traditions, or heritage. Part One of the volume discusses the evolution of ceramic design and morphology in the various geographic regions of the Caddo Archaeological Area. Each chapter in this section addresses a different region, providing detailed descriptions and illustrations that articulate the ancestral Caddo ceramic tradition. Part Two offers an applied framework to ceramic analysis with discussions related to exchange and interaction, iconography, and communities of practice and identity. In Part Three, two contemporary Caddo potters furnish an important Native component to evaluating meaning and inspiration to modern pottery productions. "Ancestral Caddo Ceramic Traditions" will be a valuable reference book for the entire Southeastern archaeology community interested in evaluating relationships across the region that are frequently evident in ceramic traditions"--

Subjects

• History
• Southern States
• Caddo Indians > Antiquities
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Southern States
• Indian pottery > Southern States
• Caddo Indians > History

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The framework of studies of ancestral Caddo ceramics and regional traditions. Approaches to the study of ancestral Caddo ceramics / Timothy K. Perttula [and 3 others] -- Caddo ceramics in the Red River basin in northwestern Louisiana and southwestern Arkansas / Jeffrey S. Girard, David B. Kelley, and Duncan P. McKinnon -- Caddo ceramics in the Red River basin in southeastern Oklahoma and northeastern Texas / Amanda L. Regnier, Timothy K. Perttula, and Patrick C. Livingood -- Caddo ceramics in the Ouachita River basin in southwestern Arkansas / Ann M. Early and Mary Beth Trubitt -- Caddo ceramics in the Arkansas River basin in eastern Oklahoma / Scott W. Hammerstedt and Sheila Bobalik Savage -- East Texas Caddo ceramic traditions / Timothy K. Perttula -- Caddo salt making ceramic wares / Paul N. Eubanks -- Ceramic variation and social interaction. A provenance and stylistic study of early Caddo vessels: implications for specialized craft production and long-distance exchange / Shawn P. Lambert -- Ceramic variation as an indicator of interregional interaction and community / Duncan P. McKinnon -- Spatial variation in Ripley engraved bowls among the Titus Phase Caddo of northeastern Texas and communities of identity / Ross C. Fields -- The origin and development of the Caddo scroll motif / Eloise Francis Gadus -- An exploratory network analysis of the historic Caddo period in northeastern Texas / Robert Z. Selden Jr. -- Louisiana limitrophe: a morphological exegesis of Caddo bottle shape / Robert Z. Selden Jr. -- Contemporary Caddo ceramic traditions. Caddo pottery: connecting with my ancestors / Jeri Redcorn -- Ancestors and identity: reconnection and evolution / Chase Kahwinhut Earles.

Call Number

JFF 21-547

ISBN

• 9780807171189
• 0807171182

LCCN

• 2020025832
• 40030456429

OCLC

1159609133

Title

Ancestral Caddo ceramic traditions / edited by Duncan P. McKinnon, Jeffrey S. Girard, and Timothy K. Perttula.

Publisher

Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

McKinnon, Duncan P. (Duncan Paul), 1971- editor.

Girard, Jeffrey S., editor.

Perttula, Timothy K., editor.

Other Standard Identifier

40030456429

Research Call Number

JFF 21-547