Core Elements and Layout Classes in Swift Creek Paddle Art

Smith, Karen Y.; Knight, Vernon James

doi:10.1179/sea.2014.33.1.003

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“…Of course, another potential benefit of an open-access database is that it may inspire scholarship on topics other than those we have envisioned, perhaps on finer points of Swift Creek art. For example, Swift Creek designs may be relevant to scholars with interests in symmetry (Pluckhahn 2007), design (Smith and Knight 2012, 2014), and iconography (Snow 1975, 1998). In addition, the database itself may be of interest to researchers in other areas of the world with traditions of paddle-stamped pottery, as well as similar decorative traditions in other media such as paint.…”

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“…SWIFT eventually produced a database comprised of published and unpublished reconstructed designs. The database, housed on the server of the University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology, has been employed by Karen Smith and James Knight (2012, 2014) to understand the process by which Swift Creek designs were constructed.…”

Section: Swift Creek Design Research and The Need For Networked Scholmentioning

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“…Saunders avoided “motifs,” by which she appears to mean complete paddle designs, because most of the sherds in her sample were fragmentary. Smith and Knight (2012, 2014), on the other hand, use whole paddle designs in the SWIFT database to reconstruct the process by which designs were constructed: beginning with the definition of the design field with guidepoints and the addition of guidelines and bandwork to form core elements, and ending with the addition of secondary elements and filler to complete the design. Given our focus on the identification of paddle matches, as well as our inclusion of fragmentary designs, we chose to focus on elements.…”

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Pluckhahn¹,

Wallis

2017

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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We describe the development of an open-access database for Swift Creek Complicated Stamped ceramics, a type of pottery common to Georgia, eastern Alabama, and northern Florida in the Middle and Late Woodland periods between ca. cal A.D. 100 and 800. The characteristic stamped designs on Swift Creek pottery, created by impressing a carved paddle into a clay vessel before firing, provide unique signatures that enable archaeologists to identify paddle matches—multiple vessels, sometimes hundreds of kilometers apart, stamped with a single paddle. These paddle matches potentially allow archaeologists to trace social interactions across hundreds of kilometers with high spatial and temporal resolution. To date, however, this potential has been hindered by the limited accessibility and fragmented nature of the dataset of reconstructed designs. The database we describe integrates paddle designs with other pertinent data for identifying paddle matches and their context, including the results of sourcing and technofunctional analyses and absolute dating. We view this database not only as a critical component of our own research, but also as a platform for collaboration among researchers that will facilitate broad syntheses of the region.

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Section: Swift Creek Design Research and The Need For Networked Scholmentioning

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Pluckhahn¹,

Wallis

2017

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

Wright

2016

J Archaeol Res

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During the Middle Woodland period, from 200 BC to AD 600, south-eastern societies erected monuments, interacted widely, and produced some of the most striking material culture of the pre-Columbian era, but these developments are often overshadowed by the contemporaneous florescence of Hopewell culture in Ohio. I argue that the demonstrable material links between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Midwest demand that we cease to analyze these regional archaeological records in isolation and adopt multiscalar perspectives on the social fields that emerged from and impacted local Middle Woodland societies. In synthesizing recent research on Middle Woodland settlement, monumentality, interaction, and social organization, I make explicit comparisons between the Middle Woodland Southeast and Ohio Hopewell, revealing both commonalities and contrasts. New methodological approaches in the Southeast, including geophysical survey techniques, Bayesian chronological modeling, and high-resolution provenance analyses, promise to further elucidate site-specific histories and intersite connectivity. By implementing theoretical frameworks that simultaneously consider these local and global dimensions of Middle Woodland sociality, we may establish the southeastern Middle Woodland period as an archaeological context capable of elucidating the deep history of the Eastern Woodlands as well as long-standing issues surrounding middle-range societies.

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Swift Creek paddle designs and the imperative to be unique

Smith

Knight

2016

Southeastern Archaeology

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Core Elements and Layout Classes in Swift Creek Paddle Art

Cited by 5 publications

References 9 publications

Social Networks and Networked Scholars

Social Networks and Networked Scholars

Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

Swift Creek paddle designs and the imperative to be unique

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