Ancestral Pueblo: Greater Upper Rio Grande ValleyNorthern Rio GrandePecosPecos Gray WarePecos Plain Faint to Heavily Striated Gray

Type Name: Pecos Plain Faint to Heavily Striated Gray

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.




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Pecos Plain Striated jar