Potomac Creek Ware Sherds, Potomac Creek Ware Sherds, Prehistoric Pottery Fragments
name: label: Discipline
content: Anthropology
label: Region
content: US Mid Atlantic (PA, NJ, MD, DE, DC, VA, WV)
notes: label: Description
content: This object is part of the Education and Outreach collection, some of which are in the Q?rius science education center and available to see.
label: Notes
content: Four rim sherds of Potomac Creek ware, possibly from the Late Woodland period. The largest sherd is broken and measured 6 cm long by 3 cm wide all together, and the smallest is 2.5 cm by 4.5 cm in size. The fragments have a sand and crushed quartz temper. One sherd shows plain, fabric-impressed, and cord-marked decorations on the exterior. All three have regular, impressed markings and smooth, blacked interiors.
label: Number of objects in this record
content: 4
label: Record Last Modified
content: 25 May 2023
place: label: Collecting Locality
content: Chesapeake area, North America, United States
topic: label: Topic
content: Education & Outreach
culture: label: Culture
content: Woodland
setName: label: See more items in
content: Q?rius, The Coralyn W. Whitney Science Education Center
identifier: label: USNM Number
content: EO2056
objectType: label: Object Type
content: Education and Outreach collections
physicalDescription: label: Material
content: Ceramic, Sand, Quartz