| Culture | Branch | Tradition | Ware | Type |
| Ancestral Pueblo: Greater Upper Rio Grande Valley | Northern Rio Grande | Pecos | Pecos Gray Ware | Pecos Plain Faint to Heavily Striated Gray |
Type Name: Pecos Plain Faint to Heavily Striated Gray |
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| Period: | 1550 A.D. - 1838 A.D. |
| Culture: | Ancestral Pueblo: Greater Upper Rio Grande Valley |
| Branch: | Northern Rio Grande |
| Tradition: | Pecos |
| Ware: | Pecos Gray Ware |
Pottery described here as Pecos Plain Faint to Heavily Striated Gray appears similar to that originally simply described in Kidder and Shepard (1936) as "striated" in their discussion of "Culinary Wares of Pecos". They not that changes resulting in the common occurrence of striated surfaces occurred at about the same time that blind or smeared corrugated surfaces disappeared. The fainter or more light striated surfaces are often reflected by faint scratches that presumably resulted during hand finishing.
References:
Kidder, Alfred V., and Anna O. Sherpard
1936 The Pottey of Peocs, Volume II Glaze Paint, Culinary, and Other Wares. Papers of the Phillips Academy No.7, New Haven.
Related Photos
Pecos Plain Striated jar
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