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DOCUMENT Citation Only Victoria R Gum.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Returning to Colonial Williamsburg (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This paper presents a method of dating and sourcing English delftware (or tin-glazed earthenware) based on hand-painted decorations. Five English delftware teabowls from Custis Square in Williamsburg, Virginia were analyzed during this project. Their hand-painted chinoiserie designs were broken down into specific...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Sean Devlin. Jack Gary. Eric Schweickart. Kara Garvey. Mark Kostro.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Colonoware has been the subject of intense archaeological study since the type’s identification by Ivor Noel Hume at Colonial Williamsburg. The initial decades of analysis were dominated by debates centered on the cultural and ethnic origins of the ceramic’s production. A primary observation to emerge from this period, however, was...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Crystal A Castleberry. Jack Gary.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)" , at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In August of 2020, Colonial Williamsburg’s Department of Archaeology began investigating the original site of Williamsburg’s historic First Baptist Church, one of the nation’s earliest congregations founded by free and enslaved people of African descent. The project has, from the beginning, been a partnership with the First...