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FRAGMENTS OF ELABORATELY This
picture shows a group of Middle Woodland Hopewell pot sherds from
the Snyders site. The Hopewell people made some of the most
elaborately decorated ceramic pots in Illinois. The few complete
examples were collected from burials in mounds. Hopewell pots were
decorated by engraving, stamping, stick punctating nodes and
negative painting. There are a large number of styles and designs.
Some of them are, Havana bar-stamped, zone-incised,
cord-wrapped-stick, punctate decorations, Havana chevron-dentate,
Havana straight-dentate stamped, Havana crescent & ovoid-stamped,
Montezuma punctated, Hopewell crosshatched, rocker-dentate, etc.,
etc.
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