An Early Twentieth Century Ceramic Assemblage from a Burned House in Northern Georgia
Author(s): Patrick H. Garrow
Year: 2015
Summary
Most of the sites we investigate have architectural remains, middens, and features. Artifacts collected from middens often span the history of the site. Features may represent frozen moments in time, but rarely reflect the total material culture of the household and contain artifacts that have been removed from their household and discarded. The site discussed in this paper contains a residence that was destroyed by fire during the second decade of the twentieth century. The house was occupied when it was destroyed, and the 75 ceramic vessels recovered during the excavation represent the total ceramic assemblage that was in the house at the time of the fire. Further, the house site was excavated in a manner that made it possible to determine the layout of the structure and the function of each room within the structure. This paper discusses the ceramic assemblage and its context within the burned out household.
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An Early Twentieth Century Ceramic Assemblage from a Burned House in Northern Georgia. Patrick H. Garrow. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Seattle, Washington. 2015 ( tDAR id: 434054)
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Keywords
General
burned house
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Ceramics
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millworker
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Early 20th Century
Spatial Coverage
min long: -129.199; min lat: 24.495 ; max long: -66.973; max lat: 49.359 ;
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology
Record Identifiers
PaperId(s): 461