Shoshonean Plain Ware (Great Basin overlap)

Shoshonean Plain Ware includes undecorated, utilitarian pottery produced by Shoshonean-speaking peoples across the Great Basin. Vessels are globular to oval cooking pots with plain, smoothed surfaces and slightly thickened rims. Decoration is absent; functionality is primary.

Common heights range 12–24 cm with rim diameters 12–22 cm. Walls are thick, 8–13 mm.

Occurs broadly across the central and southern Great Basin including Nevada, western Utah, and southeastern Oregon.

Plain Ware is often found in mobile or semi-mobile camp contexts. It represents one of the simplest ceramic traditions in the Intermountain West before widespread adoption of metal cookware.