23089
Accession Number
4634
Title Of Article Chaper
Textile and basketry impressions frum Icehouse Bottom, Tennessee
Title Of Journal Book
American antiquity
Volume
42
Issue
4
Pages
620-625
Literature Type
Serial
Literature Level
Analytic
Abstract
Analysis of a series of negative impressions in fired clay recovered during the 1975 excavation at Icehouse Bottom (40MR23), Tennessee, indicates the production and/or use of both single element textile and basketry at that site. One type of single element textile. knotted looping, is represented by a single specimen while one of the three major subclasses of basketry is also present. The latter includes 19 samples of a single structural type of twining. The technicalcharacteristics of this, the oldest well dated perishable assemblage from east of the Mississippi River, are discussed and the assemblage is briefly compared to others in eastern and western North America. -- AATA
pub_id
23089