Pottery and Potters in Quebec City in the 17th Century: An Archaeometric Study of Local Ceramic Production

Author(s): Huguette Lamontagne; Allison L Bain; Pierre Francus; Geneviève Treyvaud

Year: 2016

Summary

In Quebec City, the local earthenware ceramic industry began around 1636 with the

production of both bricks and pottery. While post excavation visual examination and

comparison with established earthenware typologies often suggest European productions,

we propose a microscopic examination using archaeometric analyses in order to identify

the presence of local wares. A collection of 52 earthenware sherds from four sites in the

region was selected for analysis. Tomodensitometry (CT-scanning) and thin section

analyses were undertaken and the resulting data were subject to statistical analysis. This

presentation will discuss the micromorphological examination of the ceramic pastes, and

the use of CT scanning in the study of ceramics, and how the results of these methods can

be combined with the use of statistics. Our results suggest that the local industry was

more important than initially imagined.

Cite this Record

Pottery and Potters in Quebec City in the 17th Century: An Archaeometric Study of Local Ceramic Production. Huguette Lamontagne, Allison L Bain, Pierre Francus, Geneviève Treyvaud. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Washington, D.C. 2016 ( tDAR id: 434697)

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Keywords

General
Petrographic Analysis • Tomodensitometry

Geographic Keywords
Canada • North America

Temporal Keywords
17th Century

Spatial Coverage

min long: -141.003; min lat: 41.684 ; max long: -52.617; max lat: 83.113 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): Society for Historical Archaeology

Record Identifiers

PaperId(s): 333