The East Terrace Site
Terminal Woodland - Pottery

Although Initial Woodland people used pottery at their large, lake-side villages, they do not seem to have carried many of these fragile containers to small transient camps like East Terrace. Pottery vessels were used at the site, however, during the Terminal Woodland period. This is indicated by the presence of small fragments of broken pots that archaeologists call sherds. Sherds are concentrated in upper soil levels, as one would expect, for the most recent artifacts in an archaeological site generally lie closer to the surface than items that were lost and buried much earlier.

Terminal Woodland pottery tends to be thinner than initial Woodland pottery and also has different patterns of decoration. The small amount of pottery from East Terrace is like that found at other Terminal Woodland sites in central Minnesota.