Hi, Carl and fellow Hist Archers.
I am happy to tackle this. I’ll start tonight and follow-up with some more information tomorrow, once I get back into the office.
Let me begin by explaining the band assignments. In 2000 DAACS (The Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, www.daacs.org) developed a system for recording stylistic elements on decorated ceramics. We called it the DAACS Stylistic Element System and you can read about it, and how it works, here: http://www.daacs.org/aboutdatabase/stylisticelements.html/.
Since 2000 DAACS staff has recorded nearly 700 individual stylistic elements, including band types. We have named, photographed or illustrated, and described these stylistic elements in glossaries. These glossaries can also be found at the above link (links to the glossaries are on the right side of the screen).
Data about these elements (from color to dec tech to location), and the sherds and vessels on which they are found, can be explored using DAACS artifact queries (Artifact Query 5 is best for this).
When asked to review the Roberts' book, I thought it would be especially interesting to connect the stylistic elements —with a focus on band types for this review—illustrated in her book with stylistic elements already in the DAACS glossary. We had many of the band types seen in Robert's catalog but others were new to us. Any new band element seen in Roberts’ book was recorded in the DAACS stylistic element glossaries.
Due to the small sample size in Roberts’ book, I grouped individual band elements by general band types for the analysis. For example, all specific Trellis Band (TB 1, TB2, TB 3, etc.) were grouped together as simply Trellis Bands. Grouping into general band categories allowed me to do the analysis. The sample size of individually named elements was too small to see any statistically significant trends.
Tomorrow I will send out a table that equates the UMB elements with those stylistic elements currently in DAACS (and, therefore, in Roberts’ book). I am also happy to distribute the data set I created from Roberts’ book that I used for the analysis I presented in Ceramics in America. Please email me off list if you would like a copy of that data set.
And here is a shout-out to UMB folks: would you be willing to share your raw data on your pearlware vessels and their corresponding band elements from the Sarah Boston site? It would make for a potentially very cool comparison of decorative choice and acquisition in New England to slave sites in the Chesapeake, Carolinas, and Caribbean.
Best,
Jillian
Jillian E. Galle
Project Manager,
Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery
Monticello
Box 316
Charlottesville, VA 22902
434.984.9873
www.daacs.org
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From: Carl Steen [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2013 3:45 PM
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Interesting and informative review Jillian - can you apply the band styles you discuss to the bands shown at:
http://blogs.umb.edu/fiskecenter/2013/02/06/the-boston-farmsteads-handpainted-pearlware-rim-patterns/
That would be a great help to all of us. I don't mean this as a criticism in any way. I just wasn't sure exactly what you meant in a couple of cases.
thanks!
Carl Steen
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From: Fraser D. Neiman <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Tue, Feb 12, 2013 2:11 pm
Subject: Re: Ceramics in America 2012 now available - Free PDF's will be available
Hi Folks,
Just a quick follow-up to George's and Rob's recommendations on cool stuff in
the Rob's latest triumph: the 2012 Volume of Ceramics in America.
Jillian Galle's review of Lois Roberts' Dated in Blue: Underglaze Bue Painted
Earthenware, 1776 to 1800 may also be of interest to many Histarch-ers. Jillian
mines Roberts' beautifully illustrated catalog of dated vessels to gain useful
and provocative insights into the interpretive significance of decorative
variation and the distinction between creamware and pearlware.
With Rob's permission (thanks Rob!), there is a scan on the DAACS website.
Here it the link
http://www.daacs.org/research/
best to all,
Fraser
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From: Robert Hunter [[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Thursday, January 31, 2013 2:22 PM
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Thanks George!
One of the most important articles for the archaeological community is Doug
Ross's:
"Late-Nineteenth and Early-Twentieth-Century Japanese
Domestic Wares from British Columbia."
This article will prove invaluable for anyone working on late 19th/early 20th
century sites in North America.
I should have a .pdf suitable for email shortly.....Please send me a request
OFFLINE to: [log in to unmask]
I have may have other pdf's available if I receive a suitable number of
requests..
We are considering taking to the journal to an online format in the
future...please give me any feedback as to your feelings about that.
Also please consider "Liking" our FB pages where we are know posting New
Discoveries and related resources including great photographi material
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Ceramics-in-America/240354719316500
Rob Hunter
Editor, Ceramics in America
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From: George Miller <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Wed, Jan 30, 2013 1:11 pm
Subject: Ceramics in America 2012 now available
The 2012 volume of *Ceramics in America *edited by Robert Hunter* *has just
been published. It has a number of excellent articles dealing with
American stonewares, Japanese and Chinese ceramics imported into North
America, ceramics from a Spanish shipwreck, ceramics from an 1813 auction
from a rize brig captured by an American privateer, and Baltimore porcelain.
Here is a list of the articles.
Douglas E. Ross
Linda R. Pomper "Early Chinese Porcelain found in Panama."
Barbara and Ken Beem "A History of Baltimore Porcelain."
Leslie and Peter Warwick "New Perspectives on Chinese Export Blue-and-White
Canton Porcelain."
Sean Kinglsey, Ellen Gerth, and Michael Hughes "Ceramics from the Tortugas
Shipwreck: A Spanish-Operated *Navio* of the 1622 Tierra Firme Fleet."
George L. Miller "Ceramics from the 1813 Prize Brig *Ann*, Auctioned in
Salem, Massachusetts: An Analysis." The cargo included 250 crates of
ceramics that amounted to 109,000 vessels.
Barbara H. Magid "Stone-ware of excellent quality, Alexandria manufacture"
Part I: The Pottery of John Swann."
Warren F. Hartmann "The Stoneware of Early Albany: A Mystery Solved."
Paul Cushman " Paul Cushman: The Premier Albany Potter and His Stoneware."
In addition to the articles there are five extensive book reviews of
recently published books on ceramics.
*Ceramics in America *articles are accompanied by wonderful color
photographs of the vessels by Gavin Ashworth. The journal is published by
the Chipstone Foundation and distributed by the University Press of New
England. It is hard bound and is available for $65. Since 2001 *Ceramics
in America *has been the major journal for ceramic articles appealing to
archaeologists, curators, social historians, collectors and studio potters.
Peace,
George L. Miller
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