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Clay Marbles
Last week I was the the University of Oregon Museum of Natural and Cultural History to do some research for my PNW clay and ceramic technology project. The goal was to look through the museum’s...
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Thoughts on Temper (or Tempered Thoughts?)
Post by Nikita Collier, PSU undergraduate and Archaeology Lab Intern Temper samples (Photo by Nikita Collier) Temper is material that is added to clay that changes the properties of ceramics as they...
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More on Clay Balls from PNW
Post by Dianna Woolsey, PSU Graduate Student and PNW clay/pottery project Research Assistant Last month Shelby posted about the remarkable spread of clay ball artifacts in both prehistoric and...
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Back to the Source: 40th Meeting of the Alaska Anthropological Association
I just got home from Anchorage, Alaska, where I spent the last few days at the Alaska Anthropological Association Meetings. I presented a paper on my work with northern ceramics as part of the Cape...
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Lower Columbia Figurines: Part I
Post by Dianna Woolsey, PSU graduate student Continuing our repository visits for the PNW Clay and Pottery Project, Shelby and I recently visited the Burke Museum in Seattle to look at their...
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Lower Columbia Figurines: Part II
Post by Dianna Woolsey, PSU graduate student In my previous post, I described the unusual clay figurines that have been found in the Lower Columbia: simple incised anthropomorphic tablets, and...
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