Ceramics (Other Keyword)
301-325 (693 Records)
ceramic data from the Green Lake Site (Niagara Frontier) with regrouped attributes
Green Sherd Images (2012)
This scanned photo is in the Earl Sidler collection, now in the possession of Timothy Abel. It was probably done in the early 1970's by Gordon Schmahl, then of the SUNY/Buffalo Anthropology Dept. when the material was on loan to Marian White.
Green Site Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Green Site (Jefferson County, NY)
Haas (Smokes Creek) Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (1993)
ceramic data from the Haas Site (Niagara Frontier) with regrouped attributes
Heath (1990)
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Heath Regrouped Ceramic Attributes (1990)
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Heath Sherd Images (2012)
The scanned photos of Heath sherds were created for Earl Sidler (a grad. student at SUNY/Buffalo) in the early 1970's. In the late 1980's Sidler gave these photos to Engelbrecht, who in turn gave them to Tim Abel. Engelbrecht borrowed these from Abel to scan and upload them to tDAR in 2012.
Heath Site Ceramic Data (1990)
ceramic data from the Heath Site
Heath Site Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Heath Site (Jefferson County, NY)
Heath Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Heath Site (Jefferson County, NY) with regrouped attributes
Historic Pueblo Canteens: How were they made and how were they used? (2015)
Historic Pueblo potters formed ceramic canteens that have one flat and one bulbous side. This form posed unique issues for construction. The form is symmetrical along only one axis, and while other Pueblo ceramic forms exhibit this feature, such as duck effigies, these flat-sided canteens are unique in that they were made to carry water. The shape suggests it was designed to be transported against a flat object. 19th century ethnographic research suggests transportation against a human back,...
Historical ecology of landscape transformations and ceramic industries at the site of Cedro (Lower Tapajós) from pre-colonial to colonial times. (2016)
The presence of demographically dense indigenous societies in the Lower Tapajós River during AD 900-1600 is visible in the present day’s landscape through the existence of Amazonian Dark Earth (ADE), earthworks, and a distinctive ceramic industry. As demonstrated by recent archaeological surveys, landscape transformations and ceramic assemblages associated to the Tapajó chiefdom are widespread at the regional scale and attest to common cultural practices. Although these archaeological sites are...
The Hoecake Site:Marking the Woodland-Mississippian Transition in Southeast Missouri. (2015)
The Hoecake site is a Late Woodland to Early Mississippian (A.D. 500-1100) site, located in the Cairo Lowland in southeast Missouri. This mound site contained as many as thirty to fifty mounds at one time, some of which contained burials. Multiple excavations were done at the site in the 1960s as part of the land leveling salvage archaeological work done in the area at the time. Other than an initial report of the excavations, no major analysis has been done on the site until now. The...
Holly Bend Plantation: Early19th Century Blacksmith Forge and Dependencies (2017)
Robert Davidson built Holly Bend (sometimes called Hollywood in the 20th century) between 1795 and 1800 on 420 acres that his father, Major John Davidson (early settler and Revolutionary War participant from Mecklenburg County), gave him in 1795. The house, which was built in a bend of the Catawba River and is reputed to have been named for the holly trees that grow in great abundance in the area, was completed before Robert married Margaret Osborne on January 1, 1801. Robert Davidson,...
The Home Network: X-ray Florescence and Geochemical Data of Post-Medieval Ceramics in Ulster (2016)
The area known as Ulster is one region where complex colonial and ethnic relationships are evident in the past, as well as in the present. This study looks specifically at the trade of ceramics in Post-Medieval Ulster, to see if coarse earthenware ceramics are being imported from elsewhere along with English refined earthenwares or if they are being produced locally in Ireland. Through the use of portable X-ray florescence (pXRF), the multi-elemental makeup of 1342 sherd will be examine to...
Household Ceramics across communities of Labor, a study from central Appalachia (2017)
Excavations during the summers of 2015 and 2016 by the Coal Heritage Archaeology Project focused on the residential communities that once lived in Tams, WV and Wyco, WV. These communities originated as coal company towns, in which all residents worked for and rented their houses from the coal company. Because these communities were somewhat isolated, many of the residents could only shop at the company store. This study examines the ceramic materials recovered from different racial, and...
How does the organization of ceramic production change through time? An Ethnoarchaeological View (2016)
Changes in pottery through time and their organizational correlates are fundamental to archaeological inference. Such correlates rely upon theory based upon distilling various ethnographic cases filtered through a series of socio-economic and socio-political assumptions about the relationship of production to the society at large. This paper summarizes some of the results of a diachronic study of pottery production units in Ticul, Yucatán, from 1965 to 2008. The data show that the kin structure...
Human Ecology and the Economy: Illogical Responses to Resource Risk in Southern Nevada (2015)
Research in the Virgin Branch Puebloan region indicates that during the middle Pueblo II Period there were strong socio-economic mechanisms linking the lowlands in southern Nevada to the uplands on the Arizona Strip. Ties between these areas are demonstrated by the presence of large numbers of ceramics produced in the uplands that have been recovered from lowland sites. Traditional ecological and economic models suggest that these trade networks may have been a way to reduce risk by...
The Human/Animal Continuum in Nasca Sculptural Ceramics (c. 1-450) (2015)
Studies of Nasca polychrome ceramic iconography from many phases identify shamans in various roles. In ceremonial scenes shamans drink from cups filled with the entheogenic pulp of the San Pedro cactus, dance, play instruments, don costumes as supernatural imitators, and preside over rituals related to agriculture. Rarely however, is less immediately understandable ceramic imagery interpreted through the lens of shamanism as a Nasca worldview. Shamanic thinking privileges ambiguousness, trance...
Hybridized Ceramic Practice and Creolized Communities: the Apalachee After the Missions (2018)
After the violent collapse of Spain’s La Florida mission system in 1704, the Apalachee nation was disrupted by a diaspora that spread people across the Southeast, eventually to settle in small communities among other splintered nations. Navigating a complex cultural borderland created by constant Native American migrations and European power struggles, the displaced Apalachee experienced rapid culture change in the 18th century. Making use of ceramic data from four archaeological sites related...
Hybridized Objects and Colonization Practices: Ceramics from Minaspata, Cuzco, Peru (2015)
In recent years, archaeologists studying ancient colonialism have shifted from a top-down view, emphasizing "colonizers" and "colonized," to a more careful consideration of how local social practices are situated in global colonial structures and dynamics. Material cultures and technologies play a crucial role in this colonial encounter, as material objects manifest and actively transmit signs of ideology, power and resistance. Minaspata, a local site located in the Cuzco Valley of the...
Identifying Historic Ceramics: Applications of X-Ray Fluorescence Spectrometry in Archaeology (2018)
While ceramics are prevalent among many historical archaeological excavations, it is often difficult to properly identify ware type, particularly to the archaeologist untrained in ceramic studies. Even with such training some sherds may still remain unidentifiable. The purpose of this research is to investigate the feasibility of using a portable X-ray fluorescence spectrometer to accurately categorize ceramic sherds by ware type based on the elemental composition of their glaze. By analyzing...
Identifying Japanese Ceramic Forms and their Use in the American West (2016)
Japanese ceramics from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries have been recovered from a variety of archaeological contexts throughout Western North America, but large collections or in-depth analyses of these materials are relatively rare. As a result, standardized formal, temporal, and functional typologies are only just emerging and site comparisons are often difficult. This paper presents the preliminary results of a synthesis of ceramic data from several large collections of...
Imitation, Counterfeiting And Cultural Appropriation. Chinese Influences on European Ceramics (1560-1780) (2023)
This is an abstract from the session entitled "Globalisation of Sino-foreign Maritime Exchange: Ocean Cultures", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Blue on white tin-glazed earthenware was made in Europe since the medieval Muslim occupation. The early modern production passes by different styles, however, somewhere around mid-16th century the decoration of European tin-glazed earthenware started to resemble, if not clearly imitate, Chinese porcelain....
Impressions of an Early Urban Landscape: Interpreting a Bronze Age Ceramic Motif from ‘Amlah, Oman (2016)
This paper explores one prominent material correlate of an interconnected ancient Near Eastern world: a category of ceramic vessels termed incised greywares. Archaeological excavations have revealed a significant corpus of incised greyware vessels from across the mid-third millennium BC Near East; they are found in contexts as diverse as the ancient city of Susa to small, communal tombs across the Omani peninsula. The primary focus of this paper lies in investigating an assemblage of this...