PREHISTORIC SOUTHWEST POTTERY LUGS AND HANDLES. IT'S ALWAYS FUN TO OPEN A BOX FROM THE COLLECTIONS..
Channel: James Cunkle
Date: 21/01/2021

This box contains lugs and vessel handles.  These were screened out of the tailing piles left by the modern pots hunters from the early 1980's.  When the younger school groups came to the site this is where they would get their hands dirty with discovery.  Many of the lugs and handles are effigy forms.  Dog heads, ducks, birds and spirals.  I also brought out a few of the whole ceramic pieces to illustrate where the lugs were located on the vessels. These ceramic pieces date from around 1000 A.D. through around 1400 A.D. 

 By way of introduction; my name is Jim Cunkle. I have studied the pottery types from the Southwestern U.S. and northern Mexico for several decades and I have authored several books on the subject including; Talking Pots, Treasures of Time, Stone Magic of the Ancients, Mimbres Mythology and several others. I hope you find the videos informative. I will be presenting several different pottery types that were produced in the prehistoric Southwest, showing how they are connected in time and place. There will be discussions showing several pottery forms and styles with a special focus on the icons and symbols painted on the vessels and the stories these symbols tell.