Clay Tobacco Pipe Studies: Where Will the 21st century Bring Us?
Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2014
David Higgins’ important review of clay pipe studies, in the joint SHA/SPMA publication Old and New Worlds (1999), concluded with a discussion on avenues for future research on both sides of the Atlantic. The identification and sourcing of pipe clays, using clay pipes to understand trade patterns and socio-economic variables, and the need for tightly dated North American typologies were just a few of the directions proposed to enhance archaeological interpretation. Now that 15 years have passed, what have we achieved since then and what more needs to be done? This session explores new advances in clay pipe studies and reassesses some of the more ‘traditional’ techniques that historical archaeologists have used in the past.
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- Documents (6)
- And what about French Clay Pipes? (2014)
- Clay pipe research in Newfoundland: What works, what doesn’t and what more can be done? (2014)
- Finding Robert Cotton: an archaeological biography of the first English tobacco pipemaker in the New World (2014)
- Of crowns and stars and fleurs-de-lis: Politics and Tobacco Pipes in the colonial Chesapeake (2014)
- Revisiting Old Collections: Revelations from the 175 Water Street Site, New York City (2014)
- The Use of Tobacco Pipes in Identifying and Separating Contexts on Smuttynose Island, Maine (2014)