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Some Relevant Sites to Visit

 

University of Georgia Pottery Site:

http://shapiro.anthro.uga.edu/GIP/index.php

 

The Maryland Pottery Site:

http://www.jefpat.org/diagnostic/Prehistoric_Ceramic_Web_Page/Prehistoric_Main.htm

 

A paper on Northeastern US Pottery by Jonathan Lizee:

http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/ceramic/exchange/exchange.html

A study of ceramic petrography in Southern New England

http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/ceramic/naa/naaweb.html

A Virtual Catalog of Prehistoric Ceramics from Southern New England:

http://archnet.asu.edu/archives/ceramic/windsor/windsor.html

Another New England site, with discussion of pottery making:

http://www.nativetech.org/pottery/index.html

 

A page from the Iowa state archaeologist. They were making pottery there by 800BC!

http://www.uiowa.edu/~osa/learn/ancient/pot.htm

 

A paper on Salado Polychrome pottery from Arizona:

http://archaeology.asu.edu/vm/southwest/salado/index.htm

 

A quick description of making a Pueblo style pot:

http://www.nps.gov/history/museum/exhibits/band/potteryStages.html

 

A really interesting site on the pottery making in Nokabuta, Fiji.

http://www.sfu.ca/archaeology/museum/fijipots/index.htm

 

An introduction to British pottery making:

http://www.spoilheap.co.uk/medpoti.htm

 

Archnet: a "Virtual Library of Archaeology"

http://archnet.asu.edu/

 

The Journal, Radiocarbon:

https://www.uair.arizona.edu/holdings/journal?r=http://radiocarbon.library.arizona.edu/

An introduction to carbon dating:

http://www.c14dating.com/int.html

Ceramic Petrography at Sheffield University

http://www.shef.ac.uk/archaeology/research/ceramicpetrography