Stoneware (Other Keyword)
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The existence of stoneware face jugs as part of a Southern pottery tradition is well established. Recent scholarship and archaeological testing in Edgefield, South Carolina has sought to establish a chronology for their origins and develop a deeper understanding of their symbolic significance. As conditions surrounding the manufacturing of these face jugs changed through time, their function or meaning also changed. This paper will discuss the historic context of these vessels, explore their...
Tides of Celadon: Glaze Developments in the Edgefield Pottery District, SC (2015)
Large alkaline glaze stoneware vessels from the Edgefield District of South Carolina have long been studied by ceramic historians and collectors. Manufactured by enslaved laborers in the antebellum period, these vessels were sold throughout the South. Historians and collectors have speculated that a lighter green glaze, called celadon, was manufactured earlier than a darker green-brown glaze. This assertion has not been tested systematically using available archaeological evidence. Excavations...
Tongue of Land Near La Fourche: the Archaeology and History of Golden Ranch Plantation, Lafourche Parish, Louisiana (1989)
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Waverly Plantation: Ethnoarchaeology of a Tenant Farming Community (1980)
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