Ceramics (Other Keyword)
626-650 (708 Records)
Archaeological excavations by the Proyecto-Paleoetnobotánico Río Jama (PAPRJ) in the Jama River Valley of northern Manabí, Ecuador, have established a cultural chronology spanning over three millennia of prehispanic occupation. One of these occupations, the Tabuchila Complex of the Late Formative Period (1000 BC – 500 BC), remains poorly understood. Excavations at three sites in the Jama Valley in the 1990s recovered ceramic, lithic, obsidian, paleobotanical, archaeofaunal, and human skeletal...
Taking Out the Trash: Resilience and Reuse in a Late Roman Urban Space (2017)
This paper presents analyses of Late Roman pottery from the Gymnasium complex at ancient Corinth, Greece. Ceramic vessels from well-stratified deposits in multiple functional areas of the complex, dating from the late 4th through late 6th centuries CE, provide evidence for patterns of community resilience and adaptive capacity over a period of significant socio-economic change. Analyses of the Gymnasium ceramic assemblage reveal significant shifts in Corinth’s engagement with pan-Mediterranean...
Taking Religion Seriously: Leland Ferguson and the Legacy of God’s Fields (2024)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Tribute to the Legacy of Leland Ferguson: A Journey From Uncommon Ground to God's Fields", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. In God’s Fields (2011) Leland Ferguson examined the interplay between religion, race, and landscape in the Moravian town of Salem, North Carolina. In doing so, he highlighted the vital role of faith in social life. By examining cultural change vis-à-vis race and landscape in a...
Talcott Falls (1990)
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Talcott Falls Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1990)
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Talcott Falls Sherd Images (2012)
The first photo scanned of sherds from Harvard Peabody was produced for Earl Sidler in the early 1970's. Sidler was then a grad student at SUNY/Buffalo. This photo was probably made by Gordon Schmahl. The remaining photos were done by Robert Weber in 1967. The last photo is of a ceramic pipe. Weber was also a grad student at SUNY/Buffalo and these photos were likely done in the NYS Museum. All these photos are in the Sidler Collection, now in the posession of Tim Abel of Jefferson Co.
Talcott Falls Site Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Talcott Falls Site (Jefferson County, NY)
Talcott Falls Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Talcott Falls Site (Jefferson County, NY) with regrouped attributes
A Tale of Three Assemblages (2015)
This paper examines ceramic production in the Upper Tigris River Valley of southeastern Anatolia before and during the incorporation of this region into the Neo-Assyrian Empire. Using manufacturing techniques and technologies as windows on the organization of ceramic production, this paper argues that imperial incorporation drastically altered the organization of labor, the distribution of ceramic type fossils and the relationship between producers and consumers. This paper also suggests that,...
A Tale of Two Traders: Merchandise Sourcing and Comparative Analysis from Two Nineteenth-Century Fur Trading Posts in the Grand River Valley (2022)
This is a poster submission presented at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. This study examines the history and artifact assemblages of the fur trade post sites of Rix Robinson (1789-1875) and Daniel DeMarsac (1812-1880). Operating in the Grand River Basin of the present-day state of Michigan between 1821-1857, these two traders are historical examples of independent enterprises competing with the incursion of the American Fur Company during the later period of...
Technological and Functional Characteristics of Ceramics and Their Distribution along the Southern California Coast (2016)
Prehistoric ceramics found across southern California have a relatively discrete spatial distribution. While locally manufactured ceramics are common to the south and southeast of the Los Angeles River, prehistoric sherds are rare in deposits located to the northwest. This marked distribution is potentially explained by regional differences in surface ages and post-depositional processes. Alternatively, populations to the north may have had access to resources necessary for pottery alternatives,...
Technological Variability in Woodland and Plains Village Period Ceramics from Central and Eastern North Dakota (2015)
This paper explores technological variability in Woodland and Plains Village period ceramics from central and eastern North Dakota. Research objectives include 1) assessing compositional variability within Woodland period assemblages, 2) establishing whether or not ceramics could have been produced from local "clays," 3) exploring continuity in pastes from Woodland period to later Plains Village pottery, and 4) comparing Devils Lake "clays" to materials from the Missouri River drainage. This...
Technologies and the State: analyzing the impact of economic growth through archaeological science (2017)
Mexico’s government attempts to eradicate poverty through infrastructure building and welfare policies have changed the social dimension of griddle and basket making at Cuentepec, in the State of Morelos Mexico. For generations, the house embodied the knowledge of making griddles and baskets, evoking people to remember fragments of the social practices of distant pasts and collectively lived histories. The act of remembrance is compromised with the building of welfare landscapes. Memory is...
Temper, Temper: Variability in Ceramic Paste Recipes at a Mississippian/Protohistoric Village in Northeastern Mississippi (2017)
Mississippian-period pottery in the eastern United States is overwhelmingly described as "shell tempered," with occasional reference to poorly defined "paste" categories in traditional typologies. Researchers recently have begun to note a high level of variability in the kinds of additional temper added to what macroscopically appears to be shell-tempered wares. An example is provided by the ceramic assemblage from Lyon’s Bluff (22OK520), a mound and village site in northeast Mississippi dating...
Temperance House (1969)
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Temperance House Site Ceramic Data (1969)
ceramic data from the Temperance House Site (Onondaga area)
Temperance House Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1969)
ceramic data from the Temperance House Site (Onondaga) with regrouped attributes
Temporal and Spatial Variability in Roosevelt Red Ware Painted Decoration (2015)
Recent research in the southern US Southwest has revealed patterns useful in refining ceramic chronology and investigating communities of practice among 14th and 15th century potters producing Roosevelt Red Ware (Salado polychromes). Analyses of whole and partially reconstructible vessels recovered from stratified contexts in the San Pedro Valley of southeastern Arizona confirm the Roosevelt Red Ware stylistic seriation presented by Patricia Crown in 1994. Combining these results with recent...
Territorial attachments and border formation in the Upper Usumacinta river Basin. Discussing ceramic mobility within a fractured political and geographical landscape. (2015)
To date, archaeologists working in the Northwestern Maya Lowlands, specifically in the Upper Usumacinta region have focused their attention to ceramic variability and regional distributions trying to "picture" the degree of variability in the role of local centers in regional ceramic exchange systems. Nevertheless, little attention has been paid to territorial variability-for example, the distinction between contiguous and non contiguous territorial formations highlighted by recent regional...
Testing Alternative Settlement Models at Las Colinas with Polychrome Dating (2017)
An understanding of the nature of late Classic period settlement at Las Colinas is an important element in understanding the broader social changes that took place across the Phoenix Basin during this time. One perspective on settlement at Las Colinas figures prominently in the recent "core decay" model proposed for the Phoenix Basin Hohokam. In response to this model, we propose new alternative scenarios for late Classic period settlement at Las Colinas. We test these alternative settlement...
Testing Methods for Ceramic Dating on Northern Black Mesa (2017)
The presence and proportions of well-dated ceramic wares and types are used to date the occupation of sites across the Southwest, often to general periods or phases that exceed a site's likely occupation span. Various methods have previously been used to refine the dating of archaeological sites using ceramic artifacts. Recently, Logan Simpson conducted a Class III cultural resources survey of Peabody Western Coal Company's leased lands on northern Black Mesa, Arizona. This study uses ceramic...
That Sherd with the Fingerprints: Altering Public Perceptions of Ceramics and Slavery in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Artifacts are More Than Enough: Recentering the Artifact in Historical Archaeology", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. One of the benefits of archaeology is our ability to use individual artifacts to tell complex narratives that alter how people view the past. For instance, local ceramic production in Virginia’s Shenandoah Valley has long been seen by both scholars and the public as something inherently white,...
A Thin Section Petrographic Study of Early to Late Shangshan Ceramics from Zhejiang, China (2017)
Ceramics from the early Holocene Shangshan Culture, in Zhejiang Province, China, have been subjected to thin section petrographic analysis in order to characterize clay groups, view production patterns, and aid in the development of a complete understanding of the Shangshan technological tradition. Analysis has revealed a pattern in the local production of ceramic vessels likely related to the transformations in cooking methods and dietary patterns that coincided with new evidence for the...
Thomas Jefferson’s Acquisition of Transfer Printed Ceramics for Poplar Forest (2016)
Archaeological research at Poplar Forest, Thomas Jefferson’s retreat home in Bedford County Virginia, has revealed numerous transfer printed pearlware patterns on ceramic vessels interpreted as being owned by Jefferson. Despite their mass produced nature, the imagery on these ceramics connects very closely to the aesthetics he tried to achieve in the design of the house and landscape. Did Jefferson or a member of his household, seek out specific patterns through specialized merchants or was the...
Those Beyond The Walls: An Archaeological Examination Of Michilimackinac’s Extramural Domestic Settlement,1760-1781. (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Paper / Report Submission (General Sessions)", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Ideal for both the French and British, the location of Fort Michilimackinac was selected to serve as a key entrepôt for European goods from the colonized east coast to be traded for furs from the Upper Country. The diverse population that formed around Michilimackinac included French and British soldiers, traders, craftsmen, and...