A vessel typology for early Chesapeake ceramics: The Potomac Typological System

Beaudry, Mary C.; Long, Janet C.; Miller, Henry M.; Neiman, Fraser; Stone, Garry Wheeler

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“…Notations of vessel number, decorative type, or monetary value could have been used in place of form as the category of marking detail. I chose form because it was the most frequently noted detail in both advertisements and inventories, and because other studies have found it to be a significant 18th-century category (Beaudry 1988;Beaudry et al 1988;Bedell 2000).…”

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“…Yentsch (1988: 154) distinguished localized subsistence patterns on 18th-century Cape Cod in probate inventories because different levels of detail were used to describe the same categories of objects in different places. Beaudry et al (Beaudry 1988;Beaudry et al 1988) defined a folk nomenclature for Chesapeake foodways vessels based on the language of probate records. Beaudry (1988: 48-50) found that descriptive modifiers reflected shifts in "attitudes about how vessels should be employed," specifically the increasing significance of special purpose vessels during the 18th-century.…”

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“…I had preconceived notions of which ceramics 18th-century persons would consider tedious to describe. Based on several studies of 18th-century ceramic trends (for example, Beaudry 1988;Beaudry et al 1988;Bushman 1993;Deetz 1996;Goodwin 1999;Miller et al 2000;Noël Hume 1991[1970; Yentsch 1996), I expected wares that were novel and/or closely associated with status, refinement, and gentility would be both most often mentioned and described in the most detailed way: china in all periods studied, especially tea-related forms in the earlier decades; delft in the 1720s and 1730s, especially plates/platters; refined stoneware after the 1740s; creamware after the late 1760s. I also anticipated that notations of form, closely associated with specialized function, would steadily increase over time (Beaudry 1988;Bedell 2000).…”

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"Articles too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid-18th-Century Newport, Rhode Island

Hodge¹

2006

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"Articles too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid-18th-Century Newport, Rhode Island

Hodge¹

2006

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“…Beaudry et al 1983;Jordan 2000a;2000b). Three main studies have been performed on ceramics from VOC Cape archaeological sites include Gabeba Abrahams-Willis ' (1994 1996, 1998) Ceramics lets us infer whether foods were prepared wet or roasted, and served communally or individually.…”

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“…Beaudry et al 1983;Jordan 2000a;2000b). Three main studies have been performed on ceramics from VOC Cape archaeological sites include Gabeba Abrahams-Willis' (1994 Abrahams 1994;Jordan 2000a;2000b;Klose 1997).…”

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A zooarchaeological investigation into the meat industry established at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

Heinrich

2012

Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa

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The Dutch East India Company (VOC) established their settlement at the Cape of Good Hope in 1652 in order to refresh passing trade ships with fresh water, vegetables, and meat in hopes of lessening disease and death during the long voyages around the tip of Africa between Europe and the Far East. The great demand for meat provided an impetus for Dutch-Khoehoe interactions which ultimately drained the Khoekhoe of their wealth, land, and identity. Currently, with the exception of the terrestrial faunal from Oudepost I (Cruz-Uribe and Schrire 1991), historic period faunal analyses at the Cape have been very localized, superficially descriptive, and taphonomically flawed, which has ii lead to very little understanding of the overall colonial meat market and included some implausible interpretations.This thesis takes into account contextual evidence, applies zooarchaeological methodology, and incorporates actualistically-based research into taphonomic traces on bone surfaces and to better reconstruct the originally deposited samples. The investigation of the VOC's meat industry that was emplaced at the Cape is carried out through the investigation of five faunal samples including three sites from the Castle of Good Hope; the Moat, the Granary (F2), and Donkergat (DKG); Elsenburg; and the Dump from Oudespost I. The systemic approach provides information about livestock production, slaughter, and consumption at the Cape with information about large scale slaughter for local markets or trade ship provisioning. This thesis describes the transplanted European husbandry practices as the VOC overcame initial hardships of meeting high meat demands to become the dominant power across the landscape.iii ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS I would foremost like to thank Carmel Schrire for sharing her guidance and critical mind, while also having great patience throughout the research and writing of this dissertation. I would also like to thank my dissertation committee, Robert Blumenschine, Robert Scott, and David Landon (University of Massachusetts-Boston), for helpful critiques and advice. I would like to additionally thank Robert Blumenschine for his instruction in faunal analysis and taphonomy. I would like to thank Royden Yates, Graham Avery, Margaret Avery and LalouMeltzer who were instrumental in helping me gain access and navigate the IZIKO: South African Museum, especially Graham Avery for working alongside me to help identify various bones and the birds. Thanks are also extended to the faculty at the University of Cape Town's Archaeology Department for allowing me access to various faunal assemblages kept in their store rooms. I also appreciate the help from Richard Klein (Stanford University) who had helped me with some bone specimens in addition to reviewing some portions of this work. I would also like to thank Eileen Westwig at the American Museum of Natural History for providing access to their Mammalogy Collections.Funding for this research has been obtained from Special Opportunity Award, Bigel Grants, the Center for Human Evoluti...

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The Whole Site is the Artifact: Interpreting the St. John's Site, St. Mary's City, Maryland

Hurry

Bodeman

2007

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A vessel typology for early Chesapeake ceramics: The Potomac Typological System

Cited by 45 publications

References 2 publications

"Articles too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid-18th-Century Newport, Rhode Island

"Articles too Tedious to Enumerate": The Appreciation of Ceramics in mid-18th-Century Newport, Rhode Island

A zooarchaeological investigation into the meat industry established at the Cape of Good Hope by the Dutch East India Company in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries

The Whole Site is the Artifact: Interpreting the St. John's Site, St. Mary's City, Maryland

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