Learned Landscapes: Colonoware Concentrations on Virginia's Northern Neck

Summary

This is an abstract from the session entitled "A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology.

Colonoware, found on many sites throughout the Mid-Atlantic, a locally-made ware rooted in cross-cultural pottery-making traditions, has been recovered from Virginia’s Northern Neck. Northern Neck colonoware differs from that recovered elsewhere in Virginia in terms of temper, surface treatment, and form. The Neck’s geographical isolation and a persistent Indigenous presence appears to have resulted in a colonoware practice derived from Indigenous pottery-making traditions specific to the region. Northern Neck colonoware tends not to be tempered, is almost never burnished, and forms are limited to bowls, a practice first appearing at Indigenous settlements in the 1680s. Using recent excavations and reports, this paper describes the colonoware specific to the learning communities of the Northern Neck in the 17th and 18th centuries.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• A Land Unto Itself: Virginia's Northern Neck, Colonialism, And The Early Atlantic   •
• Society for Historical Archaeology 2023

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