Stallings Island is an archeological site with a large shell midden, located in the Savannah River near Augusta, Georgia.

During the second period the site was occupied by people of the Classic Stallings culture, who used decorated pottery.

[5] The site represents a transitional period, in which hunter-gatherer culture was gradually replaced by more sedentary village and agriculture-based lifestyles.

This process is believed to have been executed by women, and the orientation signals whether the creator was right or left handed.

[7] The design of Stalling pottery with flat bottoms came from their old ways of cooking, which consisted of using heated soapstone rocks in liquid-filled baskets to make soups/food.

[7] Kenneth E. Sassaman, Zackary I. Gilmore, When edges become centered: The ceramic social geography of early pottery communities of the American Southeast, Journal of Anthropological Archaeology, Volume 61, 2021, 101253, ISSN 0278-4165, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jaa.2020.101253 Michael S. Smith and Michael B. Trinkley, Fibre-tempered pottery of the Stallings Island Culture from the Crescent site, Beaufort County, South Carolina: a mineralogical and petrographical study, Geological Society, London, Special Publications, 257, 1, 119-125, 2006 https://doi.org/10.1144/GSL.SP.2006.257.01.09