Pottery Series of the Caribbean
Learn the difference between the common ceramic series of the Caribbean (Rouse 1992) with these cheat sheets from Collections Assistant … Continue
Clear As Mud: The Origins of Early Pottery in the Lucayan Islands
Check our our new article on pottery production in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos, originally published in Times of … Continue
Repurposing Pottery
In earlier blog posts I’ve written about how people in the past mended broken pots, but there were lots of … Continue
More Pottery “Make-Dos”
In an earlier post, I discussed some methods used through the years to fix damaged pottery. Here are a few … Continue
Mending Pottery in the Past
I‘ve had some questions posed to me recently about how and why pottery was mended in the past, so here’s … Continue
Calcium in Pottery: The good, the bad, the ugly
Calcium is abundant, which means that people in the past figured out some great ways to use it as tools, … Continue
Stump the Archaeologist
Archaeologists love the unknown. We are drawn to the challenge of using artifacts as clues to figure out how people … Continue
Clay Chronicles VIII
Trial by fire! As you may have gathered from earlier posts, I was anxious about the firing, because it is … Continue
Clay Chronicles VII
I’m running out of pottery making supplies at home, so am wrapping up my experiments for now. After making the … Continue
Clay Chronicles VI
For most of the pots I’ve made during these quarantimes, I’ve used clays more or less as they were. This … Continue