Native American shell tempered vessel rim, three reassembled potsherds, recovered in Northwest Florida. Defined as a pottery type Pensacola Plain dating from the Mississippian Period, about 1000 AD -to 1550 AD (*Pensacola culture of Florida).Recovered on Escambia Bay, Santa Rosa County. The surfaces were fairly well smoothed originally, but pitted where particles have leached out. 

*The Fort Walton and Pensacola Cultures apparently represents the last original natives of this area, who either died out by 1700 or merged with new comers from other Indian groups fleeing the effects of European colonization. Florida's prehistoric periods end in the middle of the 1500s with the introduction of Spanish explorers. Mississippian peoples met the army of Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto in 1540. This and the other encounters with Europeans introduced diseases for which the long-isolated indigenous peoples had no resistance.

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Pensacola Plain

Cultural Affiliation: Pensacola; Mississippian

Chronology: AD 900 - 1500

Culture Period: Fort Walton

Mode of Decoration: Plain

Inclusions or Temper: Shell

Region of Greatest Occurrence: Northwest Florida

Type Description: Willey 1949; Wimberly 1960