Bill Liebeknecht wrote:
>Colonoware  has many definitions but I can say that in Trenton N.J. some was
found at the Old Barracks by Hunter Research Inc.

Bill has hit the heart of the matter.  For years, we have been
lumping all hand-built, low-fired, European-style domestic pottery
into this catch-all category.

In truth, "colono" is a broad category, with many local varieties,
from many different parent traditions.

There are European sources for this technology, and I am pretty sure
that we have seen "colono" pottery that was made by European
immigrants, using their own native traditions, without any influence
whatever from Native American or African sources.

Colono is a technique, not a ware.  And it is present in the European
culture that was brought here by our white ancestors.  There are
other colono wares that clearly are pure Native American products,
and others show African antecedents.

In America, after the first generations of contact, local "colono"
wares were developed with apparent creolization. But this process has
not been documented.

After years of debate (much of it ethnocentric), I doubt that we
really have a handle on this stuff.


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