The Western Illinois Field Station team recently recovered an interesting rim section from a cord-impressed vessel while sampling a restricted bluff base midden or trash deposit during an IDOT-sponsored bridge replacement project in Tazewell County.
This is an example of terminal Late Woodland Canton ware, which dates approximately 1200 years before the present. The fabric used to create the exterior design seen on this specimen employed broader individual cords than is typical of most local Maples Mills style jars and was also applied to an unsmoothed (cordmarked) vessel surface.
