Pottery Sherds

 This painting of pottery sherds is another painting in the Stallings Island series. Sometimes referred to as 'shards' the proper name in the field of archaeology is 'sherd', or more precisely, 'potsherd', is commonly a historic or prehistoric fragment of pottery.

Stallings Island, a National Historic Landmark site, was a major settlement of Late Archaic Native Americans from 4,500 to 3,500 years ago. Located in the Savannah River, eight miles upstream from Augusta, the sixteen-acre island is the namesake of Stallings Culture and its hallmark pottery, Stallings fiber-tempered wares, the oldest pottery in North America.