Thermal Breakage in Glass Shards: Identification in the Archaeological Record of an University Trash Dump
Author(s): Katlyn R Likely
Year: 2017
Summary
Lindenwood archaeology students have been excavating a pre-1960s university trash dump. Finds include glass shards with a breakage pattern originally hypothesized to be artistically cut glass. With no evidence of wear from cutting, we undertook heating experiments and now interpret the glass shards as being the result of thermal breakage, possibly due to trash burning.
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Thermal Breakage in Glass Shards: Identification in the Archaeological Record of an University Trash Dump. Katlyn R Likely. Presented at Society for Historical Archaeology, Fort Worth, TX. 2017 ( tDAR id: 435398)
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Keywords
General
garabage dump
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Glass
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University
Geographic Keywords
North America
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United States of America
Temporal Keywords
Historical
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): 261