10579
Editor
Kingery, W.D.
Title Of Article Chaper
A Reassessment of Thule Eskimo Ceramic Technology
Title Of Journal Book
Technology and Style
Volume
2
Pages
237-250
Reference Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references
Publisher
The American Ceramic Society, Inc.
Publisher City
Columbus
ISBN
916094766
ISSN
8756-8179
Language Of Text
English
Literature Type
Monograph
Literature Level
Analytic
Meeting
The 87th Annual Meeting of the American Ceramic Society Symposium on ceramic history and archaeology
Meeting City
Cincinnati
Meeting Country
United States
Abstract
Pottery was an important part of western prehistoric Eskimo assemblages, but the quality declined greatly during the Thule period. Some archaeologists have interpreted this as a decline in ceramic technological capability. However, a combination of neutron activation and more traditional archaeological analyses on Thule ceramics from Alaska and Arctic Canada suggest that Thule potters understood their medium. They adjusted temper and the firing regime to adapt their ceramics to a variety of resource areas in an environment badly suited to pottery manufacture. -- AATA
Keywords
History, Education, and Documentation Ceramics ceramic technol Thule Eskimo, pottery technol prehistoric Eskimo Archaeology ceramic artifacts technol anal. of prehistoric Thule Eskimos in relation to Radiochemical analysis,neutron activation elements detn. by, in ceramic materials from prehistoric Thule Eskimos Clays,analysis elements detn. in, ceramic technol anal. of prehistoric Thule Eskimos in relation to Ceramic materials and wares Pottery of prehistoric Thule Eskimos, technol. of, anal. of analysis, detn. of, in ceramic artifacts of Thule Eskimos by neutron activation anal. AATA
pub_id
10579
Meeting Date
19850506