Woodland Potters and Archaeological Ceramics of the North Carolina Coast (Dan Josselyn Memorial Publication (Paperback))

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The first comprehensive study of the meaning of pottery as a social activity in coastal North Carolina.

Pottery types, composed of specific sets of attributes, have long been defined for quite a lot of periods and areas of the Atlantic coast, but their relationships and meanings have not been explicitly examined. In exploring these relationships for the North Carolina coast, this work examines the manner through which pottery traits cross-cut taxonomic types, tests the proposition that communities of practice existed at several scales, and questions the fundamental notion of ceramic types as ethnic markers.

Ethnoarchaeological case studies provide a means of assessing the mechanics of how social structure and gender roles can have affected the transmission of pottery-making techniques and how socio-cultural boundaries are reflected within the distribution of ceramic traditions. Some other very valuable source of details about past practices is replication experimentation, which provides a means of understanding the practical techniques that lie in the back of the observable traits, thereby making improvements to our understanding of how certain techniques can have influenced the transmission of traits from one potter to Some other. Both methods are employed on this study to interpret the meaning of pottery as an indicator of social activity at the North Carolina coast.


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