Colonoware | The Pan-American Ceramics Project

Type: Colonoware

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Name, Origin, Date

Name:

Colonoware

Country/Region:

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Date BCE/CE:

17th century CE

Period:

Mission

Earlier/Alternative Names

Miller Plain

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General Information

This type is from the Mission culture period. The mode of decoration is plain, and the temper (inclusions) is sand and sometimes grog.

This description of Colonoware comes from the Ceramic Technology Lab maintained by the Florida Museum of Natural History.

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Detail Attributes

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Technological Attributes

Fabric Description

sand or grog-tempered

Technological Description

The mode of decorat...

Firing

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Related Illustrations 2

plain Colono-ware (photo by P. Payne).

Vessels 0

Break Photos 0

Petrographic Samples 0

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Description

The mode of decoration is plain, and the temper (inclusions) is sand and sometimes grog.

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Associated Wares/Ware Families

Ware name:

Mission

Date:

17th centry CE

Period:

Mission

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Associated Petrofabrics

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Bibliography

Kelly, Arthur R.. "A Preliminary Report on Archaeological Explorations at Macon, Georgia." Bureau of American Ethnology 1 119 (1938)
Smith, Hale G.. "Two Historical Archaeological Periods in Florida." American Antiquity 13(4) (1948), 313-319
Lindsey Bloch, Ann Cordell, and Neill Wallis. Pre-Columbian Pottery Types Gallery, 2023. April 6, 2023. https://www.floridamuseum.ufl.edu/ceramiclab/pottery-types-gallery/

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