Mogollon Pottery

Coil-built, brown- to buff-bodied utility ware with simple surfaces and minimal decoration. Surfaces range from smoothed to lightly polished, and firing typically produces a brown or gray core. Forms include jars, bowls, seed jars, and necked cooking vessels, often with soot on exteriors from domestic use.

Jars typically 20–40 cm tall with rim diameters of 14–28 cm. Bowls usually range from 18–30 cm in diameter. Small seed jars and bowls may be 10–20 cm wide.

Common across the Mogollon highlands of eastern Arizona, western New Mexico, and northern Mexico.

This category represents the foundational pottery tradition of the Mogollon region and underlies later Mimbres and Reserve developments. Plain brown ware dominates domestic assemblages from early pithouse periods through Pueblo periods.