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MISSISSIPPI ARCHAEOLOGY
rim on shell-edge is post-1840, scalloped rims continued to be used through the mid-nineteenth century.
Shell-edge decorated ceramics can provide a simple tool to help date late eighteenth-century and nineteenth-century sites. Because those ceramics are among the most common sherds found on nineteenth-century sites, they are particularly useful. The key is to understand the evolution of scalloped and unscalloped rims and the designs that occur on them.
Rufus Ward, Jr., is a lawyer in West Point, Mississippi.
Table 3. The presence cf scalloped or unscalloped rims on edge decorated ceramics on nineteenth-century sites. Sites reviewed include Bolls (Atkinson 1987), Chickasaw Agency (Atkinson 1987), Hotana and Yokoctubbee (Ward 1983), YMCA (Ward and Kay 1986), West Port Trash Pit (Ward 1982), Pate (Rohrbough et al. 1971), Harvey (Burton 1971), Colbert (Marshall 1988), West Port (Ward and Kay 1986), Mims (Ward 1985), and Bottoms (Jurney 1990).
Period of Occupation	Bolls	Chic. Agen.	Hot. &Yok.	YMCA	WPPit	Colbert	Pate	Harvey	WP Surf	Mims
1870								B	B	B
1865								B	B	B
1860								B	B	B
1855						B		B	B	B
1850						B	B	B	B	B
1845					s	B	B	B	B	B
1840					s	B	B	B	B	B
1835			S	S	s	B	B	B	B	
1830			s	S						
1825	S	S	s	S						
1820	S	S	s	S						
1815	S	s	s							
1810	S	s	s							
1805	S	s								
1800	S	s								
1795	S									
1790	S									
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