Technological Changes in Prehistoric Ceramics from Eastern Puerto Rico: An Exploratory Study

Curet, L. Antonio

doi:10.1006/jasc.1996.0133

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“…Most of these studies focused on stylistic aspects of decoration and morphology. Technological studies in which the whole sequences of pottery production are analyzed have rarely been conducted, but are certainly of increasing interest among Caribbean archaeologists and ceramologists (e.g., Hofman 1993;Bloo 1997;Curet 1997;Reed & Petersen 1999;Hofman & Jacobs 2001/2002.…”

Section: From Suazoid To Folk Potterymentioning

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From Suazoid to folk pottery: pottery manufacturing traditions in a changing social and cultural environment on St. Lucia

Hofman¹,

Bright²

2004

New West Indian Guide

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Overview of pottery manufacturing traditions in St Lucia, placed within the island's cultural history from pre-Columbian times up to present Afro-Caribbean folk pottery. Authors focus on manufacturing processes in different cultural traditions through history, looking at raw materials used, the shaping and finishing, decoration, and firing process. First, they sketch St Lucia's habitation history since the first Amerindian settlers in 200 AD, and evidence of pottery, which climaxed in the later Suazoid period pottery since about 1150 AD, and discuss how later European colonization and arrival of Africans contributed to the decline of Amerindian traditions, replaced by European and West African pottery traditions, although some Amerindian traditions remained. The pottery manufacturing of 3 main cultural traditions are examined, discussing differences, as well as similarities due to cultural blending: Suazoid pottery, later Amerindian Island Carib pottery, with origins in the Guianas region, related to the Kar'ina, and current St Lucian, West African-influenced, "folk pottery". Authors conclude that all 3 traditions mainly use local clay, and include hand-built and low-fired pottery. Shaping techniques include coiling, and in today's pottery also fashioning with smaller lumps. Surfaces are smooth and polished in today's pottery, but more scraped and scratched in Suazoid vessels. Further, they find that decoration is uncommon in today's pottery, while Suazoid ceramics included decorations, and that vessel shapes tend to be simple in all 3 traditions. They also find that women have been the principal potters through time, although pottery was a male activity among the Island Caribs in the mid-17th c.

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Section: From Suazoid To Folk Potterymentioning

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From Suazoid to folk pottery: pottery manufacturing traditions in a changing social and cultural environment on St. Lucia

Hofman¹,

Bright²

2004

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“…Studies of Caribbean ceramics seem to have either focused on their morphological attributes and stylistic motifs (Roe, ; Righter, ; Keegan, ; Fitzpatrick et al, ) or their chemical composition, though even the latter has been woefully understudied (Fitzpatrick, ; Mann, ; Lambert et al, ; Carini, ; Winter & Gilstrap, ; van As & Jacobs, ; see Isendoorn, Hofman, & Booden, ; other papers in special issue of the Journal of Caribbean Archaeology 2008). In one notable study, Curet () analyzed technological changes in ceramics from eastern Puerto Rico, with a paragraph dedicated to petrography. Lys Drewett (Drewett & Fitzpatrick :141–144) conducted limited petrographic analysis of 22 sherds from several Pre‐Columbian sites on Barbados and there have been several petrologic studies of ceramics in the northern Lesser Antilles (Donahue, Watters, & Millspaugh, ; Fuess et al, ; Fuess, ; Catlin, Smith, & Peterson, ).…”

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Petrography and Provenance of Sand Temper Within Ceramic Sherds from Carriacou, Southern Grenadines, West Indies

2013

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Petrographic descriptions and point counts of sherds from archaeological sites on Carriacou, the largest of the Grenadine Islands, show them to exhibit wide textural (temper to matrix ratio) and compositional variability. The major mineralogical components include plagioclase feldspar, pyroxene (augite), amphibole (hornblende), opaque minerals, and various volcaniclastic fragments, the latter exhibiting mostly either lathwork or microlitic textures. Sherds dominated by these components constitute an Igneous group, whereas other samples stand out in terms of their high dense mineral content (Placer group), high potassium feldspar content (Potassic Volcanic group), or high quartz content (Quartzose group). The provenance of sand in some of these sherd groups is likely nonindigenous to Carriacou, and possibly includes Puerto Rico (Potassic Volcanic) and Barbados (Quartzose), whereas the provenance of others (Igneous/Placer) is equivocal and potentially exotic to the island in that their composition is most consistent with active portions of the Antilles magmatic arc to the north. These results suggest widespread interaction within the southern Lesser Antilles and possibly other islands to the north and the possible use of clay and/or tempering materials as exchange items.

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Technological persistence in ceramic production in the southeastern Hispaniola. The case study of El Cabo (600–1502 CE)

Casale

Dessel

Hoogland

et al. 2022

Journal of Anthropological Archaeology

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Technological Changes in Prehistoric Ceramics from Eastern Puerto Rico: An Exploratory Study

Cited by 7 publications

References 6 publications

From Suazoid to folk pottery: pottery manufacturing traditions in a changing social and cultural environment on St. Lucia

From Suazoid to folk pottery: pottery manufacturing traditions in a changing social and cultural environment on St. Lucia

Petrography and Provenance of Sand Temper Within Ceramic Sherds from Carriacou, Southern Grenadines, West Indies

Technological persistence in ceramic production in the southeastern Hispaniola. The case study of El Cabo (600–1502 CE)

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