The Thermal Properties of Textured Ceramics: An Experimental Study

Young, Lisa C.; Stone, Tammy

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“…One of the most notable findings relates to exterior texturing. Young & Stone (1990) found, contrary to one prevailing hypothesis, that an exterior texture, similar to that of corrugation found on vessels in the American South-west, does not increase a vessel's heating effectiveness. However, Schiffer et al (1994) found that a deep exterior texture does improve other thermal responses of low-fired cooking vessels: during simulated cooking, deeply textured vessels suffered fewer exterior spalls and enjoyed a reduction in cracking produced by thermal shock.…”

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“…Experimental studies of pottery (e.g. Bronitsky & Hamer, 1986;Feathers, 1989;Skibo, Schiffer & Reid, 1989;Fournier, 1990;Young & Stone, 1990;Dunnell & Feathers, 1991;Schiffer et al, 1994) have demonstrated that these technical choices made by the potter can significantly influence a vessel's performance. Among the surprising findings is that traditional surface treatments have marked effects on a great many performance characteristics.…”

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“…Among the surprising findings is that traditional surface treatments have marked effects on a great many performance characteristics. Thus far, experiments have explored how surface treatments influence tensile strength (Fournier, 1990), resistance to thermal shock and spalling (Schiffer et al, 1994), evaporative cooling effectiveness (Schiffer, 1988), heating effectiveness (Schiffer, 1990;Young & Stone, 1990), and thermal shock resistance (Schiffer et al, 1994), which are among the performance characteristics that can be important in the use of cooking or storage pots. One of the most notable findings relates to exterior texturing.…”

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“…Thickness affects vessel wall strength, heating effectiveness, and thermalshock resistance (Braun 1983;Skibo 2013). Surface treatment/texturing, temper, and rounded bases act to improve thermal-shock resistance, which is the primary performance characteristic in low-fired cooking pots (Schiffer 1990;Young and Stone 1990;Pierce 2005).Pottery vessels from both Naomikong Point and Sand Point are heavily tempered with fine-to coarse-grained grit, have conical and round bases (respectively), and have predominantly everted or vertical rims and very few inverted rims (Janzen 1968:48; Dorothy 1980:47;Kooiman 2012). Average wall thicknesses at both sites are quite thin (Table 1) and were statistically identical (p = .6485, α = .05, df = 742) among vessels at the two sites.…”

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Woodland Pottery Function, Cooking, and Diet in the Upper Great Lakes of North America

Kooiman

2016

Midcontinental Journal of Archaeology

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A multidimensional approach to functional analysis was employed to examine pottery use, cooking, and subsistence in pre-European North American contexts. A variety of analytic techniques were applied to ceramic assemblages from two sites on the south shore of Lake Superior: the Middle Woodland Naomikong Point site and the Late Woodland Sand Point site. The analyses of both technical attributes and use-alteration traces suggest that a majority of pottery vessels from these sites were used for cooking throughout the Woodland period. Lipid residue analysis corroborates traditional subsistence information but specifies which foods were cooked in pottery vessels. Vessel size varies according to context rather than by time or by function, with larger vessels associated with ritual areas and smaller vessels originating from domestic spheres, a trend potentially related to feasting behavior. Interior carbonization patterns change in frequency between the Middle and Late Woodland periods, suggesting a shift in cooking and possibly subsistence practices.keywords ceramics, pottery function, cooking practices, great lakes A recent trend in ceramic analysis has been the increased use of proxy observations to understand archaeological vessel functions (Braun 1983;Blitz 1993;Kobayashi 1994;Skibo and Blinman 1999;Arthur 2002Arthur , 2003Skibo et al. 2009). This approach stands in contrast to the more traditional analyses that have largely focused on the social and spatiotemporal implications of stylistic attributes (i.e., Wheat et al. 1958;McPherron 1967;Janzen 1968;Sabloff and Smith 1969;Brose 1970;Dorothy 1978Dorothy , 1980. Functional analyses can be used to infer culinary practices and the role of pottery in everyday life, both in relation to subsistence and nonculinary functions, as well as its use in special contexts, thereby expanding the midcontinental journal of archaeology, Vol. 41 No. 3, Fall, 2016, 207- breadth of information that can be gleaned from ceramic assemblages. Building on this premise, a multidimensional analytic approach was developed and used to investigate the diet and cooking practices of inhabitants of and the function of pottery vessels from two Woodland sites on Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Physical characteristics, the presence and locations of use-alteration traces, depositional contexts, lipid residue analysis, and ethnographic sources were all examined or employed to reconstruct ancient pottery use in the Upper Great Lakes region (Kooiman 2012).This study explores the functions of Upper Great Lakes pottery through assemblages from two coastal sites on the south shore of Lake Superior: the Naomikong Point (20CH2) site and the Sand Point (20BG14) site. Both are multicomponent sites, but analysis focused on pottery from the Laurel Middle Woodland component of Naomikong Point (Janzen 1968) and the Late Woodland component of Sand Point (Dorothy 1978(Dorothy , 1980). Skibo's (2013) model of pottery function analysis entails the evaluation of both technical properties and use-alteration traces to infer...

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Explaining the prehistory of ceramic technology on Waya Island, Fiji

Cochrane

2002

Archaeology in Oceania

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This preliminary analysis of ceramic technological change on Waya Island, Fiji documents the variation present over three thousand years of innovation, interaction, and change. Hypotheses relating the observed variation in sherd thickness, tempering practices, and vessel type diversity are proposed. These hypotheses may be tested through experimental and other analyses that are briefly described here. Finally, these hypotheses and their tests are structured by the universal evolutionary mechanisms of cultural transmission, adaptation and natural selection, and innovation and thus have implications for not only Wayan prehistory, but all of the Pacific.

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The Thermal Properties of Textured Ceramics: An Experimental Study

Cited by 23 publications

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Ceramic Surface Treatment and Abrasion Resistance: An Experimental Study

Ceramic Surface Treatment and Abrasion Resistance: An Experimental Study

Woodland Pottery Function, Cooking, and Diet in the Upper Great Lakes of North America

Explaining the prehistory of ceramic technology on Waya Island, Fiji

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