Chinese Brown Glazed Stonewares from CA-MNT-104 H and Stanford University’s ACLQ

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories" , at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

This paper examines the Chinese Brown Glazed Stoneware (CBGS) ceramic depositions found at the Chinese fishing village of Point Alones near Monterey Bay, California. Point Alones was the site of the Chinese village where now Stanford University’s Hopkins Marine Station stands. This paper uses the collected CBGS from Point Alones to compare it with the CBGS sherds from Stanford University’s Arboretum Chinese Labor Quarters (ACLQ) in order to compare the two sites’ CBGS assemblages, to provide an interpretation about the Overseas Chinese population at both sites through their selection and use of CBGS, as their go-to utilitarian storage jars. Sometimes vessels might be chosen to represent personal identity, and this paper explores whether the consumers are conscious about these individualist characteristics in the ware types. Finally, this paper explores the use of CBGS as artistic expression, rather than just a functional object.

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• Revolutionizing Approaches to Campus History - Campus Archaeology's Role in Telling Their Institutions' Stories   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2020

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PaperId(s): 631