Here we go again. Thanks, Dan, for that excellent quote on the Barbados. If we are going to find the origins of Colono ware, we must concentrate on the very first points of contact among the three potting traditions in the Americas. The Europeans, the Africans, and the Native Americans were all equally capable of making built-up, low-fired, unglazed pottery. The European tradition of making such pottery was robust and widespread at the time of colonization in the seventeenth century. There is no reason, therefore, to seek a single point of origin for the Colono wares. In fact, there is every reason to believe that all three groups had cross-fertilized their potting technologies within the first couple of genertions. Take, for example, the Catawba. It is pretty clear that their pipe making was learned from the Germanic settlers. Pipe moulds they were using a century ago were clearly modelled after the Moravian molds. The Catawba potter reported in the Foxfire series followed production techniques identical in sequence and purpose to the techniques used in both Denmark and West Africa? So where did the modern Catawba learn potting? From Africans? From Europeans? At risk of saying something unacceptable about hyperdiffusionism, I suggest that the three-way creolization is pretty well established fact, and our job now is to sort the local variants.