Hello Fellow Histarchers:

Ned stated that:


> Every ethnic (racial, national) group ... had a
> tradition of hand-built, finished, unglazed,
> low-fired pottery.  A Dane
> or an Irishman could make such a pot, drawing on his
> own national
> tradition;  so could an African or a Native
> American...

This is very true.  This Dane has tried to make a few
such ceramic vessels but the efforts were not overly
successful.

Best wishes,

Dane Magoon











Up and down the
> coast of North America, fundamentally different
> pottery types have been
> bunched under the label of "colono," even though
> they may have resulted
> from different cultural origins.  Even within a
> single region,
> different "colono" wares existed simultaneously but
> clearly came from
> radically different sources.
>
> Most importantly, we have totally failed to realize
> the possible
> European origins of some "colono" traditions. Both
> Ferguson and Noel
> Hume, to name but two of the researchers, dismissed
> the possibility of
> European origins without so much as a glance at the
> record.   Europe
> was thick with local hand-built pottery traditions
> during the
> seventeenth century, and they are well documented.
>
> I think it's been pretty well shown that, for
> example, the Virginia and
> South Carolina "colono" traditions are as different
> as creamware from
> porcelain. Yet we cram them into this same phony
> category.
>
> Until we start treating each locality's pottery as a
> distinct craft
> tradition with its own history, we are never going
> to even approach
> understanding what these ceramics mean.
>
>
>
>
> Edward F. Heite
> Heite Consulting, Inc.
> Archaeologists and Historians
> P O Box 53, Camden, Delaware 19934
> www.heite.org





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