Abstract
- The site of Angel Mounds has the largest number of negative painted pottery sherds of any one site in the Eastern Woodlands. Previous research by Sherri Hilgeman (1985, 1991, 2000) on this pottery type has provided a detail description of its variation in form, style, and age. Her investigation also attempted to determine its function and method of manufacture, utilizing ethnohistorical and experimental archaeology data. This paper summarizes a preliminary study to both test and expand on Hilgeman’s research of negative painted pottery with an intra-site spatial study, an organic residue analysis to determine its use, and geochemical techniques to define its manufacture and source.