“…Whereas Middle and Late Caddo potters (AD 1250-1690) produced a wide variety of forms and motifs (Girard et al 2014), Early Caddo potters used just a small subset of pottery forms on which to place repeating abstract curvilinear motifs. Lambert (2017Lambert ( , 2021aLambert ( , 2021bLambert ( , 2021c, working with almost 300 whole vessels in the northern and southern Caddo area, illustrated the range of vessel forms made by Caddo potters (Figure 3). There are five vessel groups: bottles, bowls, jars, beakers, and effigy vessels, with the last group being very rare in Early Caddo contexts.…”