Anthropology

Craft Production in the Colonial Chesapeake: Local Economic Strategies in the Global Market    

Unlike many other goods at the time, which were wholly imported from Great Britain or elsewhere abroad, coarse earthenware ceramics were also produced locally within the American colonies. In the Chesapeake, it has been suggested that these local wares were reserved for those too poor to directly participate in the system of transatlantic credit fostered by the tobacco economy. In this talk, I present the results of elemental analysis via laser ablation ICP-MS to identify the sources of utilitarian earthenwares used by plantation households, illuminating historic patterns in the access and consumption of these everyday goods. 

Date:               September 9, 2016

Location:        Turlington Hall, 1208

Time:              3pm

Speaker:         Dr. Lindsay Bloch

Visiting Scholar

Research Laboratories of Archaeology

University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill