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From: HISTORICAL ARCHAEOLOGY [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of P
Samford
Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2011 2:16 PM
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Subject: Update to the Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland Website

The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory at Jefferson Patterson
Park and Museum is pleased to announce the addition of several new sections
to its Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland website
(www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/index.htm<http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/index.
htm>).  In the Small Finds section, Sara Rivers-Cofield has added a section
on spurs, with information on the different components of and changes in
spur styles over time.  In the Post-Colonial Ceramics section of the
website, several new essays have been added.  The most detailed of these
essays is on white granite, also called white ironstone.  A new section of
the website, entitled Less Commonly Found Wares has been created, describing
post-colonial wares and decorative types less commonly recovered on
archaeological sites.  The web pages included there will provide visitors
with a general description of these ceramics and offer reference sources
that can be read for more in-depth information.  Categories included to date
include a type of Japanese overglaze porcelain called Geisha girl porcelain,
relief molded stoneware, and felspathic stoneware.  Categories to be added
in the future include sprig molded wares, Rockingham, yellow ware, decal
decorated wares and alphabet wares.



And we are pleased to announce that George L. Miller has allowed us to post
a paper he prepared entitled "Common Staffordshire Cup and Bowl Shapes."
This typology focuses on the cup and bowl shapes that became common types
and as such are regularly recovered from archaeological sites. Beyond
describing and illustrating these common types, this study will document
their chronological development and the terminology used to describe them by
the potters who produced them and the merchants who bought and sold them.
There is a link to this paper from the Post-Colonial Ceramics page.



Jefferson Patterson Park and Museum, the State Museum of Archaeology, is the
home of the Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory (MAC Lab), which
houses over 8 million artifacts.   The MAC Lab serves as a clearinghouse for
archaeological collections recovered from land-based and underwater projects
conducted by State and Federal agencies throughout Maryland. All of these
collections are available for research, education, and exhibit purposes to
students, scholars, museum curators, and educators.  For more information on
the MAC Lab or the Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland website, please visit
www.jefpat.org<http://www.jefpat.org>.


Patricia Samford
Director, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory Jefferson
Patterson Park & Museum
10515 Mackall Road
St. Leonard, Maryland 20685
410-586-8551 (phone)