By the way, there is also a controversy among New Mexican archaeologists as to whether the region's Hispanic occupants picked up micaceous pottery manufacture. The best evidence, in my opinion, says "no" and that pottery manufacture in Hispanic communities was the activity of Indians residing in those communities, primarily Apaches and Navajos, but that opinion is not universally held.
Also, as regards Carl's note about micaceous pots, my grandmother always said -- and I have heard many viejos nortenos say -- that frijoles (beans) are best cooked in micaceous pots.
Jeff
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Subject: Mica Temper?
Forwarded from the Ceramics-L list; I thought perhaps someone here might
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Subject: Mica Temper
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Date: Wed, July 1, 2009 9:26 am
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Some colleagues from Montreal have found an assemblage of what seems to be
Native American ceramics heavily tempered with mica: mica fragments are
large, numerous and nearly as important as the clay itself. The pottery
fragments are very hard and they break more like European ceramics than
Native American ceramics. The context is a French settlement from the
XVIIth Century.
Is anyone familiar with such pottery? Can anyone provide me with similar
examples of Native American or European ceramics heavily tempered with
mica?
Thank you
Christian Gates St-Pierre
Archaeologist, PhD
Ethnoscop inc.
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
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