Yes, the red pigment is the slip they used on the pottery. I wish I could remember what she was saying they used. We found a lot of the red hemitite, so it very well could have been that, but I can not say for sure. We also were finding artifacts li…
Mississippians usually had a red slip to their ceramics, and the painting, was it black? They generally did negative painting. I have a contact at SIUC that her specialty is woodland/mississippian cultures. We just finished an 8 week dig on the Ohio…