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Ceramics and Temper: A Response to Feathers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Gordon Bronitsky
Gordon Bronitsky*
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Abstract

Feathers is critical of the selection of materials and the use of commercial clay in our earlier research. The use of shell temper from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico suggests that the properties of this material were considered useful regardless of the specific clay source. Furthermore, Feathers’s comments indicate the need for further discussion and understanding of the role of simulated use testing of archaeological materials.

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Résumé

Feathers critica la selección de los materiales asi como la arcilla comercial utilizados en nuestra primera investigación. El uso de concha como temperante fue muy extendido en la región de los Grandes Lagos al Golfo de México, lo cual sugiere que las propiedades que poseen estos materiales fueron considerados útiles sin reparar en las fuentes especifícas de arcilla. Por otra parte, los comentarios de Feathers nos señalan que se necesitan nuevas investigaciones para compreder el papel que tiene el uso simulado de pruebas en los materiales arqueológicos.

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American Antiquity , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , July 1989 , pp. 589 - 593
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Copyright © Society for American Archaeology 1989

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