Style in Swift Creek Paddle Art

Smith, Karen Y.; Knight, Vernon James

doi:10.1179/sea.2012.31.2.002

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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“…SWIFT eventually produced a database comprised of published and unpublished reconstructed designs.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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Social Networks and Networked Scholars

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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Wallis

2017

Adv. archaeol. pract.

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“…Such research benefits from the assembly of the largest possible design corpus. 5 Traditionally, complete designs are composed using whole artifacts; fragments of designs are then identified as belonging to complete compositions manually by visual assessment. 6 The smaller the fragment of design preserved or the more diverse the design corpus, the more difficult it is to match a fragment to a complete composition.…”

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Identifying designs from incomplete, fragmented cultural heritage objects by curve-pattern matching

Zhou

Smith

et al. 2017

J. Electron. Imaging

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Study of cultural-heritage objects with embellished realistic and abstract designs made up of connected and intertwined curves crosscuts a number of related disciplines, including archaeology, art history, and heritage management. However, many objects, such as pottery sherds found in the archaeological record, are fragmentary, making the underlying complete designs unknowable at the scale of the sherd fragment. The challenge to reconstruct and study complete designs is stymied because 1) most fragmentary cultural-heritage objects contain only a small portion of the underlying full design, 2) in the case of a stamping application, the same design may be applied multiple times with spatial overlap on one object, and 3) curve patterns detected on an object are usually incomplete and noisy. As a result, traditional curve-pattern matching algorithms, such as Chamfer matching, may perform poorly in identifying the underlying design. In this paper, we develop a new partial-to-global curve matching algorithm to address these challenges and better identify the full design from a fragmented cultural heritage object. Specifically, we develop the algorithm to identify the designs of the carved wooden paddles of the Southeastern Woodlands from unearthed pottery sherds. A set of pottery sherds, curated at Georgia Southern University, are used to test the proposed algorithm, with promising results.

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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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Style in Swift Creek Paddle Art

Cited by 13 publications

References 14 publications

Social Networks and Networked Scholars

Social Networks and Networked Scholars

Identifying designs from incomplete, fragmented cultural heritage objects by curve-pattern matching

Local and “Global” Perspectives on the Middle Woodland Southeast

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