Tick Island Incised

Pottery Series or Cultural Affiliation: Orange Series

Chronology: 2500 BC- 1000 BC

Culture Period: Orange Period

Mode of Decoration: Incising and punctation

Inclusions or Temper: Fiber temper, often Spanish moss; occasional sponge spicules

Region of Greatest Occurrence: East Florida, St. Johns River.

Type Description: Griffin 1945

See Also (AKA): Stallings Island Series (Georgia)

Tick Island Incised (Orange series)
Tick Island Incised (Orange series)
Cross section of fiber-tempered sherd showing cross section of channel pores from burned out fibers
Cross section of fiber-tempered sherd showing cross section of channel pores from burned out fibers
Thin section view of fiber-tempered sherd showing carbonized fibers in some fiber temper voids (width of image 2.5mm; PPL, 4x)
Thin section view of fiber-tempered sherd showing carbonized fibers in some fiber temper voids (width of image 2.5mm; PPL, 4x)