Pottery found in creek

Thanks Turn for posting it....... found an arrowhead in that same spot last year. I think the native American period would be more interesting for me.

Amazing find. Thank you for posting it.

My gf’s fam has a cattle ranch in Bosque county and they have two buckets of arrowheads they’ve found over the 42 years they’ve been there.

It’s a powerful feeling holding an item that was made and used by someone so long ago.

I gave ChatGPT the picture and said that it was found in Prairieville

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Prairieville, Louisiana puts this squarely in a very well-documented Native pottery region.

Based on your photo and that location, this is most likely a prehistoric Native American cord-marked pottery sherd from the Lower Mississippi Valley tradition.

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Most Likely Cultural Origin

Coles Creek / Plaquemine Tradition

Approx. 700–1600 AD

This area was occupied by:
   •   Coles Creek culture (700–1200 AD)
   •   Later Plaquemine culture (1200–1600 AD)
These are ancestral to historic Natchez-area groups and produced large amounts of cord-marked utility pottery just like this.

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Why This Fits Your Piece

Features That Match
   •   Diagonal cord impressions
Made by paddling wet clay with a cord-wrapped wooden tool — very common in Louisiana river cultures
   •   Thick wall section
Suggests a cooking or storage jar, not fine tableware
   •   Grit temper visible
Crushed sand or shell added to strengthen clay
   •   Eroded surface
Typical of creek or drainage finds

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What Part of the Pot This Is

This looks like a body sherd (side wall), not rim or base.
It likely came from a:
   •   Large cooking jar
   •   Water or grain storage vessel

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Age Estimate

Very likely:

800 to 1,400 years old

That’s common for creek finds in Ascension Parish due to erosion of buried village sites along old bayous and terraces.

Nice find.

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I'd probably pick dinosaurs but its not an easy choice.

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That'd put you as the only man to ever see an alive non-avian dinosaur.

And I've certainly had the hot's for many a Native American woman.

FWIW, that oak table is circa 1985 from the Ashley Furnita era.

Very cool find. My dad had an old 30 gallon drum he would throw broken pieces in. Pretty sure there are some pottery pieces in here somewhere. These are about 8” deep.

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Found this piece of pottery in my creek. No idea if it's old or came from someone's back porch upstream

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100% Native American pottery. You can see the crushed up shell pieces that it was tempered with. Nice find

As a young man you could walk around the Texas and Louisiana islands of Toledo Bend and pick up pottery and points after hard flood rains or when the lake dropped. Also the creek beds of Kisatchie too. Use to have buckets of it as a kid. Guess over the years we sold some, gave some away. Still have a few shadow boxes of points but dont think we kept any pottery and had tons.