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Ceramic Patterning and Social Structure at Two Late Historic Upper Creek Sites in Alabama

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Roy S. Dickens Jr.  and
James H. Chapman
Roy S. Dickens Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA 30303
James H. Chapman
Affiliation:
Chapman died in April 1977
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Abstract

This study examines the variability in Ocmulgee Fields ceramics from 2 nearly contemporaneous Upper Creek Indian sites at Horseshoe Bend National Military Park in central Alabama. The intent is to demonstrate that differences between the 2 pottery assemblages reflect differences in the social settings at the 2 sites. Frequencies of ceramic types and of selected attributes are tested for statistical significance using chi-square, and the strength of the assumed relationships are evaluated using 1 or more measures of association. The tests support a contention that ceramic vessels in use at the temporary, warrier-refugee settlement of Tohopeka were more frequently of utility forms and were generally larger and less decorated than vessels in use at the permanent, family-structured settlement of Nuyaka. It is suggested that similar studies of ceramics from sites for which the historical record is not as complete as it is for the Horseshoe Bend sites might reveal potential distinctions in social structure and behavioral patterning that would be developed primarily from the archaeological record.

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Research Article
Information
American Antiquity , Volume 43 , Issue 3 , July 1978 , pp. 390 - 398
Copyright
Copyright © The Society for American Archaeology 1978

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