Type of Document	Master's Thesis
Author	Emery, Jason A.
URN	etd-11112004-100046
Title	What Do Tin-Enameled Ceramics Tell Us? Explorations of Socio-Economic Status through the Archaeological Record in Eighteenth-Century Louisiana: 1700-1790
Degree	Master of Arts (M.A.)
Department	Geography & Anthropology
Advisory Committee	Advisor Name Title Paul Farnsworth Committee Chair Miles Richardson Committee Member Rebecca Saunders Committee Member
Keywords	natchez natchitoches new orleans archaeology french colonial majolica pointe coupee faience
Date of Defense	2004-10-28
Availability	unrestricted
Abstract This thesis examines the presence and distribution of tin-enameled earthenwares in what was colonial Louisiana at nine archaeological sites: Madame John's Legacy (16OR51), the ca. 1730s French Colonial Barracks (16OR136), the Lower Pontalba Building (16OR209), Galveztown (16AN39), French Site I (16PC80), the Bicentennial Gardens (22AD999), Los Adaes (16NA16), the American Cemetery (16NA67), and the Chamard House site (16NA100). To examine the ceramic diversity, a comprehensive classificatory system is proposed, with discussion and classification of vessel forms. Ceramic diversity was anticipated to be patterned following geographic and economic lines; however, this was not substantiated through the analysis of the general body of tin-enameled ceramics. This study raises questions about the patterning of Spanish-style tin-enameled wares, provides a suggested tin-enameled signature for French colonial sites in the second half of the eighteenth century, but most importantly it provides baseline data about the decorative style of faience in the state of Louisiana.
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