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Lunsford-Pulcher (11-S-40) is a Mississippian mound center located in the American Bottom, near modern day Dupo, Illinois. To date there has been limited excavation and analysis conducted at this important ceremonial village. For this study, 181 rim sherds from a surface collection by Timothy R. Pauketat and Bobby Pauketat were analyzed and then compared to other nearby Mississippian sites (the Washausen, Peiper, and Morrison sites), with a focus on the differences in temper usage. This paper...
Style and Substance in the Inca Imperial Capital: A Preliminary Archaeometric and Attribute Analysis of Ceramics, Materiality, and Aesthetics in Ancient Cusco (2016)
Archaeologists have long examined how ancient empires and states developed a standard aesthetic and material culture—a set of styles and iconographic designs meant to express their claims to regional authority. In contrast, this paper moves beyond style designations and iconographic interpretations, which often draw on texts to make claims about representations of myths and political personages, to instead understand the materials and technological sequences that constituted a regional aesthetic...
A Stylistic Analysis of New York Iroquois Pottery (1971)
The central question addressed in this dissertation was whether the League of the Iroquois was reflected ceramically. A clear reflection of this was not found, but there was increasing similarity between areas through time, including the Niagara Frontier, outside the geographic area of the original Iroquois Confederacy. The ceramic methodology and the sites used are discussed.
Subordinate Economies Within The Barbadian Sugar Plantation Economy (2015)
Within the Barbadian sugar plantations of the 18th and 19th century, there existed multiple forms of economy. The typical economy, as described by historical texts, consists of sugar plantations exchanging sugar and molasses for goods from England and its North American colonies as well as for slaves from Africa. However, within the sugar plantation complex, a dense and layered sub-economy was impacting and being impacted by the day-to-day operations of the plantations themselves. At the core of...
"A Sudden Flaw of Wind" -The Politics, Prize, and Pottery of the British Sloop of War DeBraak (2018)
On May 25th, 1798 the British brig-sloop DeBraak was struck by a sudden squall and sank while attempting to put into harbor at Lewes, Delaware. The unpredictable winds of the Delaware Cape may have spelled her demise, but it was the shifting political winds of war between Revolutionary France and England, coupled with the vulnerability of American shipping and a new nation’s demand for manufactured goods, that brought this warship to Delaware’s shores. This paper examines the ceramics...
Surface Ceramic Distributions at Matacanela, Southern Veracruz, Mexico (2015)
Prior archaeological research in the Sierra de los Tuxtlas, southern Veracruz, Mexico demonstrates significant sociopolitical transformations spanning the Formative through the Postclassic periods. Ongoing fieldwork at the site of Matacanela, located within the central portion of the Tuxtla Mountains, is contributing to this understanding. This paper discusses the results of the first season of fieldwork at Matacanela with a focus on patterning in the distribution of surface ceramic material....
Surviving Traditions: Pottery with Freshwater Tree Sponge Spicules (Cauixí) in the Great Tectonic Lakes of Exaltation of the Llanos de Moxos, Bolivia (2023)
This is an abstract from the "Andean and Amazonian Ceramics: Advances in Technological Studies" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The ethnic and linguistic diversity of the southwestern Amazon is one of the greatest in the world. This diversity is reflected in settlement patterns, types of monuments, spatial planning and use, cultivation techniques, and also in ceramic production. From AD 400 to the present, numerous ethnic groups of the Llanos de...
Swarthout (1990)
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Swarthout (View) (1974)
These two photos of the Swarthout site were taken by Earl Sidler sometime in the early 1970's.
Swarthout Regrouped Attribute Data (1990)
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Swarthout Sherd Images (2012)
These photos were produced for Earl Sicler (a SUNY/Buffalo grad student) in the early 1970's.
Swarthout Site Regrouped Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Swarthout Site (Jefferson County, NY) with regrouped attributes
Swathout Site Ceramic Data (2011)
ceramic data from the Swathout Site (Jefferson County, NY)
Symbols of Transformative Power:Wari Split Eye Iconography in the Middle Horizon (2015)
Feline eyes have a refractory nature that relates to the dichotomy of light and shadows in Andean traditions in Peru and suggests they are significant in Wari iconography. Andean ethnographies have expressed an importance of binary concepts that play a role in understanding of cosmology, mythology, and ritual. I will use Susan E. Bergh’s (1999) classification of Wari elite textile iconography and apply it to ritual ceramic iconographic data from excavations at Conchopata to identify the...
Tabuchila Ceramics of the Jama River Valley, Manabí, Ecuador (2017)
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...
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...