Specialized Ceramic Vessels, From Oyster Jars to Ornaments

Part of: Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

This collection contains the abstracts of the papers presented in the session entitled "Specialized Ceramic Vessels, From Oyster Jars to Ornaments," at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Seventeenth-, eighteenth-, and nineteenth-century ceramic vessels made in specific forms for specialized, narrow, uses can be difficult to identify as isolated sherds; nevertheless they are present in excavated collections. The papers in this symposium will discuss a variety of forms, from crude stoneware oyster jars to refined earthenware and porcelain vessels for the table and display, in the context of their technomic and socio-technic functions and will suggest how they might be identified in archaeological assemblages.

Other Keywords
Ceramics • Oysters • Salt-Glazed Stoneware • Stoneware • New York • Washington • Gentry • inkwells

Temporal Keywords
18th Century • 17th through 19th centuries • Late 18th Century to early 19th Century

Geographic Keywords
Coahuila (State / Territory) • New Mexico (State / Territory) • Oklahoma (State / Territory) • Arizona (State / Territory) • Texas (State / Territory) • Sonora (State / Territory) • United States of America (Country) • Chihuahua (State / Territory) • Nuevo Leon (State / Territory) • Delaware (State / Territory)