compared to other sherds found in other different mound sites also thought to have been occupied by the Swift Creek culture sometime during history (Pluckhahn and Cordell 2011). The McKeithen site is one of the mound sites that had the same pottery structure as the sherds found at Kolomoki (Pluckhahn 2007). The McKeithen site is located in north-central Florida, which means this pottery style was carried further down south than was thought at first (Pluckhahn 2007). This site was dated 200-900 AD, which mean that he Swift Creek culture traded their pottery, or they migrated further down south and other indigenous groups cultivated their pottery styles (Pluckhahn 2007).
In the late 1940s and early 1950s, archaeological excavations started to …show more content…
The Town Creek Indian Mound is a Cherokee Indian Site (Carnes 2002). More than 500,000 pottery fragments were recovered from the Town Creek site (Carnes 2002). Archeological findings of this collection of fragments have shown pottery of three different types (Carnes 2002). The first collection was classified as Badin ware (Carnes 2002). Badin ware has an undecorated surface, so we know that stamping was not used on all pottery types (Armour 2014). The outside surfaces of later dated pots found at Town Creek began to be formally decorated by being rubbed with paddles that were wrapped with string or fabric to produce simple designs on the exterior surface (Armour 2014). Also, later styles showed archaeologists that even more elaborate wooden stamp designs came into play (Carnes 2002). These wooden stamps were used to press designs into the surface, instead of rubbing the design of the vessel, just like Swift Creek Complicated Stamped pottery (Armour 2014). Archaeologists were seeing that the Cherokee Indians started to adopt the technique of the Middle Woodland natives. The technique was becoming widespread during that time, and they were seeing the results of it while excavating the Town Creek Indian