PERIOD: Possibly prehistoric through historic period of Arizona history.
Ends before the creation of Arizona's reservation system.
DATES: A.D. 1500 to 1850 (Wood 1987). Breternitz (1960) suggests a shorter
life-span of A.D. 1750-1850. Much of the debate about the beginning date for
this pottery concerns anthropologists' arguments over when Yuman groups entered
present day Arizona.
See Ware Description, except:
Surface Appearance: Exteriors
appear as unpolished, obliterated, vertical corrugations. Interiors show evidence
of scraping or wiping (Breternitz 1960).
Surface Color: Predominantly black (Breternitz 1960). However, the full
range of Tizon Brown Ware colors have also been noted for this type (Wood
1987).
Rims: Rounded (Breternitz 1960).
RANGE: Central and western Arizona around Bagdad, West Clear Creek, and
Wagoner. Also recovered from the Bloody Basin and Turkey Creek Cave areas.
COMPARISON: Scholars have not noted any direct comparison of this type to
any other type in the Southwest. However, in analyzing Yavapai-Apache ceramic
sherds, I found it difficult in some cases to ascertain the differences between
prehistoric vertical corrugated types in the Mogollon Brown Ware and Alameda
Brown Ware series and Orme Ranch Plain.
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