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The Impact of Ceramic Raw Materials on the Development of Hopewell and Preclassic Maya Pottery

Sparks-Stokes, Dominique
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin155361340000324

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2019, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences: Anthropology.
This thesis examines the role ceramic raw materials play in the technological development of pottery in two geographically separated regions, the Middle Woodland Hopewell in the Ohio River Valley and the Preclassic Maya in Lowland Belize. To this end, a suite of physical, mineralogical, and chemical analytical techniques including scanning electron microscopy, energy dispersive spectrometry, X-ray fluorescence spectrometry, and X-ray diffractometry is used to examine the ceramic raw material composition of pottery sherds from the Hopewell Twin Mounds Village site in southwestern Ohio and the Preclassic Maya Colha site in northeastern Belize. The Preclassic Maya pottery from the Colha site is technologically more advanced than Hopewell pottery from the Twin Mounds Village site in terms of hardness, porosity, and refractory properties such as thermal conductivity, resistance to thermal shock, and thermal decomposition. These ceramic properties result from the use of locally available volcanogenic clays at the Colha site. Comparable ceramic raw materials were unavailable to the Hopewell at the Twin Mounds Village site, which resulted in poorer quality pottery.
Kenneth Tankersley, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Sarah Jackson, Ph.D. (Committee Member)
65 p.
Archaeology
Ceramics; Pottery; Maya; Hopewell; Mineralogical; Chemical Analysis

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  • Sparks-Stokes, D. (2019). The Impact of Ceramic Raw Materials on the Development of Hopewell and Preclassic Maya Pottery [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin155361340000324

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sparks-Stokes, Dominique. The Impact of Ceramic Raw Materials on the Development of Hopewell and Preclassic Maya Pottery. 2019. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin155361340000324.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sparks-Stokes, Dominique. "The Impact of Ceramic Raw Materials on the Development of Hopewell and Preclassic Maya Pottery." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin155361340000324

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