Ancestral Pueblo: Greater MogollonJornada MogollonNorthern Jornada (Sierra Blanca)Northern Jornada Brown WareCorona Plain

Type Name: Corona Plain

Period: 1450 A.D. - 1680 A.D.
Culture: Ancestral Pueblo: Greater Mogollon
Branch: Jornada Mogollon
Tradition: Northern Jornada (Sierra Blanca)
Ware: Northern Jornada Brown Ware


First posted by C. Dean Wilson 2012

During the long production of "Corona" utility ware forms, there was gradual shift to forms with increasingly obliterated exteriors. This is reflected by a gradation in treatments from rubbed-ribbed to rubbed-indented to completely smoothed forms. The shift appears to have been so gradual that is very difficult to divide the various textured forms into types, although those exhibiting smoothed surfaces have been assigned to Corona Plain (Hayes and others 1981; Vivian 1964). The placement of later obliterated forms into Corona Plain has been demonstrated to be useful in making temporal distinctions (Hayes and others 1981).

Paste and color of Corona Plain is similar to that noted for Corona Corrugated, although walls tend to be slightly thicker and even more friable. There is also a drop in the frequency of pottery tempered with schist and an increase in the biotitic felsite. The frequency of occurrence of quartz and feldspar remained about the same. The exteriors have been completely wiped to remove all traces of coils, although some examples are scraped or exhibit a slight polish. Pottery assigned to this type exhibit uneven, rough, and gritty surfaces. Interior surface were even more likely to be polished and smudged than Corona Corrugated. The great majority of forms were represented by jars although bowls occur in very low frequencies. Plain jars tended to be wider and shorter than corrugated forms and were usually almost as wide as tall. While both Corona Corrugated and Corona Plain forms are commonly associated together, plain forms are more dominate in later contexts and have slightly later range (from A.D. 1450 to 1680) than corrugated forms.

References:
Hayes, Alden C., Jon N. Young, and A.H. Warren
1981 Contributions to Gran Quivira Archaeology, Gran Quivira National Monument, New Mexico. Publications in Archaeology No, 17, National Park Service, Washington D.C.

Vivian, Gordon
1964 Excavations in a 17th Century Jumano Pueblo, Gran Quivira. National Park Service Archaeological Research Series, No. 8, Washington.





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Corona Plain jar sherds (exterior surface)

Corona Plain jar sherds (interior surface)

Corona Plain jar sherds (exterior surface)

Corona Plain jar sherds (interior surface)