Ceramic Identification Links Page

Useful Web Sites for Southwestern Ceramic Typology

This web page does not seek to provide a comprehensive series of links to online information about Southwestern ceramics—for anyone seeking such as site, I recommend the one by Matt Peeples. Instead, the goal is to link to information that assists the identification of pottery according to defined wares and types.

Brown Wares

Mogollon Brown Ware, utility types

Alma Plain (LMA)
See also Mimbres Plain (LMA)

Alma Punched (LMA)

Alma Incised (LMA)
See also Mimbres Incised (LMA)

Alma Neck Banded (LMA)

Three Circle Neck Corrugated (LMA)

Reserve Plain Corrugated (LMA)
See also Mimbres Corrugated (LMA)

Reserve Incised Corrugated (LMA)

Reserve Punched Corrugated (LMA)

Reserve Indented Corrugated (LMA)

Tularosa Patterned Corrugated (LMA)

Reserve Smudged (LMA)

Tularosa Fillet Rim (LMA)

Starkweather Smudged Decorated

Mogollon Brown Ware, painted types

Mogollon Red-on-brown (LMA)

Mogollon Brown Ware, Jornada area painted types

Three Rivers Red-on-terracotta (LMA)

El Paso Polychrome

Mogollon Brown Ware, Chihuahua area painted types

Textured and painted types

Mata Red-on-brown (LMA)

Dublán Polychrome

Smoothed and painted types

Babícora Polychrome (LMA) (More)

Ramos Polychrome (LMA) (More)

Carretas Polychrome (LMA)

Alameda Brown Ware (NAU)

Buff Wares

Lower Colorado Buff Ware

Two posters of Yuman ceramics from the Colorado Delta area of northwest Mexico, by Antonio Porcayo Michelini, INAH (drawings by Juan José Cardoza; layout by Claudia Flores López)

Plain Vessels
Decorated Vessels

A poster on experimental replication of Yuman ceramics by the same author (drawings and ceramic replicas by Juan José Cardoza; layout by Omar López Hernández and Karen Calvario Zavala)

Gray Wares

Tusayan Gray Ware (NAU)

San Francisco Mt. Gray Ware (NAU)

Prescott Gray Ware (NAU)

Late Rio Grande Gray Wares

Potsui'i Incised (Photo)

White Wares

Mogollon White Ware

Mangas Black-on-white (former Mimbres Bold face Black-on-white) (LMA)

Three Circle Red-on-white (LMA)

Mimbres Black-on-white (LMA: geometric versus figurative designs)
See also Mimbres Red-on-white (LMA), which I question as a type.

Mimbres Polychrome (LMA)

Mogollon White Ware, Chihuahua types

Villa Ahumada Polychrome (LMA)

Huerigos Polychrome (LMA)

Tusayan White Ware (NAU)

Little Colorado White Ware (NAU)

Cibola White Ware Flowchart (UA, via ASU)

Rio Grande white wares (Wikipedia)

Biscuit B (Bandelier Black-on-gray) ( Photo)

Red, Orange, and Yellow Wares

Mogollon Red Ware

San Francisco Red (LMA)

Tularosa White-on-red (LMA)

Mogollon Red Ware, Chihuahua types

Madera Black-on-red (LMA)

Playas Red Incised (LMA)

Corralitos Polychrome (LMA)

Escondida Polychrome (LMA) (Casas Grandes pottery painted in the Salado style)

San Juan Red Ware (NAU)

Tsegi Orange Ware (NAU)

White Mountain Red Ware

Showlow Black-on-red (LMA) of the Puerco of the West.

Wingate Black-on-red (LMA)

Wingate Polychrome (LMA)

Puerco Black-on-red (LMA)

St. Johns Black-on-red (LMA)

St. Johns Polychrome (LMA) (See also the Logan Museum's St. Johns Glaze Polychrome page; this is often classified under St. Johns Polychrome.)

Pinedale Polychrome (LMA)

Fourmile Polychrome (LMA)

Cedar Creek Polychrome (LMA)