Barbara,
What time period are you working with? Clearly the historic period for
Slovenia is much longer that what we in North America are use to dealing
with. The following sources would be useful if you are working on ceramics
from the post 17th century period.
Robert Copeland
2009 *Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth
and Nineteenth Centuries.* The Northern Ceramic Society. £25 plus £3.00
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Robert was of the Copeland family and he was apprentices as a presser and
spent time at the bench. His book is a wonderfully illustrated source of
the processes of manufacture along with a good description of what they
involved.
The Maryland Archaeological Conservation Laboratory Diagnostic Artifacts in
Maryland web site is an excellent source for dates of common wares and it
has great illustrations. I have a paper on that web site titled “Common
Staffordshire Cup and Bowl Shapes” that is available for download. It has
profile drawings of the common shapes and charts listing they types of
decoration that they are found on the different shapes through time.
The Council for Northeast Historical Archaeology’s web site has my four
part article “Thoughts Towards a User’s Guide to Ceramic Assemblages” that
can be downloaded for free.
George L. Miller, Patricia Samford, Ellen Shlasko and Andrew Madsen
2000 “Telling Time for Archaeologists” *Northeast Historical
Archaeology*Vol. 29, pages 1-22.
This article has many *TPQ *dates for common types of ceramics, glass and
other types of artifacts.
If you or your institution belongs to the Society for Historical
Archaeology, you would be able to download previous articles from *Historical
Archaeology*.
The web site for *Ceramics in America*, edited by Robert Hunter has a
number of articles that can be downloaded. Chipstone Foundation publishes
this journal.
Hope this is helpful.
Peace,
George L. Miller
On Thu, Dec 5, 2013 at 9:30 AM, Carl Steen <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> On 12/5/2013 2:35 AM, Barbara Ceh wrote:
>
>> Dear Colleagues:
>>
>> I am writing to you for some informations on ceramic projects associated
>> with the Historic period.
>> My name is Barbara Čeh, I come from Slovenia (EU) and I am an
>> archaologist, specialized in analyses of pottery.
>> For the primary handling with ceramic artifacts there are few
>> instructions in Slovenia and the procedures are not standardized and
>> unified; so this work is also a methodical challenge.
>> I would be very grateful, if you could help me with some informations:
>> Where should we start with some artifact guides, some studies providing
>> methodology, some classic case studies, and some suggestions about
>> beginning a project; or maybe give me a hint who should I contact.
>> Thank you very much.
>> Kind regards,
>>
>> Barbara Čeh
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> Hi Barbara - Prudence Rice's /Pottery Analysis/ and Clive Orton et al's
> /Pottery in Archaeology/ are a great place to start.
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