Miners Creek Type Collection

In the late 1970s, Georgia State archaeologists worked at the site of Miner’s Creek (9DA91), located on the bank of the South River in DeKalb County. The excavations of which were analyzed by GSU student Peggy Crawford to document the occupational history of this site based on the ceramic materials recovered. Based on Crawford’s results, the site was occupied during the Middle Woodland period (300 B.C.E-500 C.E.) by people using Swift Creek style pottery, a culturally specific stamped paddle design, along with seven other pottery types from that time period. The almost 2000 potsherds are housed in GSU’s Archaeology Lab. For this project, I am reassessing this legacy collection and making a physical and digital type collection for future students or interested publics, which requires the retyping of some of the collection based on contemporary classification schemas.