Archaeological assemblages
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
A study in stoneware : analysis of a 19th century ceramic assemblage from the Smith Pottery Works, Norwalk, Connecticut, 2023
Item — Call number MU Thesis Ada
Identifier: b7931449
Abstract
This research focuses on an assemblage of 19th-century artifacts recovered from the Smith Pottery Works located in Norwalk, Connecticut unearthed by archivist and amateur archaeologist William Asadorian, and colleagues in 2012. Between 1825 and 1888, Smith Pottery Works was a leading distributor of ceramics in Connecticut. Smith Pottery Works was known for making redware and stoneware ceramics, most of which were utilitarian-type vessels. What is known of the...
Dates:
2023
Is the 'collecting bug' dead? : a look at hunting and gathering 'stuff' - from the Stone Age to the 'age of Amazon' , 2020
Item — Call number MU Thesis Sch
Identifier: b7930091
Abstract
Accumulating assemblages of significant, rare, and/or valuable items is not a new phenomenon. Interesting pebbles, found amassed in an 80,000-year-old French cave, may mark the beginning of collecting. Over time, Noah, King Tut, and the Medicis kept the collecting spirit alive. And aristocrats followed their lead; as explorers and amateur archaeologists told of their finds, upper class wanted to emulate them by accumulating the world's treasures; 'cabinets of curiousities' (...
Dates:
2020
The Clark-Watson site : an archaeological exploration of colonial Perth Amboy, 2019
Item — Call number MU Thesis Cav
Identifier: b7929034
Abstract
Perth Amboy is a city with a rich and significant history that often gets overshadowed by its famous neighbors, New York City, Philadelphia, and Boston. Its original occupancy stretches back thousands of years to the Native populations who dominated New Jersey territory up until the Contact period. By the seventeenth century, Perth Amboy was populated by Scottish, English, and Dutch immigrants who formed Perth Amboy into the city we know today. This thesis is an analysis of the artifact...
Dates:
2019
The importance of revisiting artifact assemblages : a case study of the Turkey Swamp Site (28-Mo-305), 2016
Item — Call number MU Thesis Myd
Identifier: b7668303
Abstract
The re-visitation and analysis of a previously excavated site and its artifact assemblage is something that is not always as common as it should be. This thesis will examine the importance of revisiting artifact assemblages through a single case study that follows the story of some particular archaeological site, its artifact collection, and its importance to the Middle Atlantic region of the United States's prehistory. The importance of revisiting artifact assemblages is examined through...
Dates:
2016