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Clay, Temper, Fire: Exploring Maryland's Indigenous Ceramics.
Maryland Archeology Month 2025



Exploring Maryland’s Indigenous Ceramics
Zachary Singer, Chair, Maryland Archeology Month Committee Maryland Archeology Month 2025 highlights Indigenous ceramics. Fired clay...
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“Can you tell me what this is and how old it is?” Identifying Ceramics and Using the Diagnostic Artifacts in Maryland Website
Scott Strickland, Deputy Director, Maryland Archaeological Conservation Lab Chances are if you picked up one of these booklets, you're...
Scott Strickland
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Innovation & Connection: The Story of Shell - Tempered Pottery in the Chesapeake
Martin Gallivan and Taylor Callaway, William & Mary Around 2,000 years ago, Native communities in the Chesapeake region began producing a...
Martin Gallivan and Taylor Callaway
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American Indian Pottery on the Delmarva Peninsula: A Key to the Past
Daniel R. Griffith, Archaeological Society of Delaware, Inc The study of pottery is one avenue to the history and culture of American...
Daniel R. Griffith
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CHAPEL BRANCH WEST: At the Center of it All
Julie Markin, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology, Washington College The Chapel Branch West Site (18CA270) sits on a...
Julie Markin
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Late Woodland Keyser Ceramics
Robert Wall, Towson University Native ceramics in Maryland provide archaeologists with a variety of details on the cultures that made...
Robert D. Wall
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Finding a Frontier Among the Threads
John Henshaw, William & Mary Indigenous ceramics tell an interesting story of the last few thousand years of North American history prior...
John Henshaw
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Keeping My Temper Under Control
Lynne Bulhack, Ceramist, Experimental Archaeologist, ASM Native American Liaison In the context of Indigenous ceramics, temper is a...
Lynne Bulhack
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Crafting Vessels from Stone – Ednor Soapstone Quarry
Cassandra Michaud, Senior Archaeologist, Montgomery Parks Before clay was discovered as a superb and locally available material to shape...
Cassandra Michaud
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