Is this a Sand Temper?

Author(s): Haley Dougherty

Year: 2021

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2021: General Sessions" session, at the 86th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

The UNLV Shivwits Research Project has excavated at numerous Virgin Branch habitation sites since its inception more than fifteen years ago. Sand-tempered ceramics recovered from these projects, which represent the first large-scale investigations conducted in the area, exhibit a high degree of variability in terms of their mineralogy and paste color. This paper discusses the ceramic variation observed across the studied sites as well as problems encountered with sand-temper ware analysis and identifying geological inclusions related to manufacturing techniques. I suggest, that for at least the Virgin Branch typology, new methods for categorizing sand tempered types should eliminate clay ambiguities and paste disparities recorded in the series for these types.

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Is this a Sand Temper?. Haley Dougherty. Presented at The 86th Annual Meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. 2021 ( tDAR id: 467500)

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Spatial Coverage

min long: -123.97; min lat: 25.958 ; max long: -92.549; max lat: 37.996 ;

Record Identifiers

Abstract Id(s): 32571