The document summarizes the results of a material culture final project analyzing artifacts found at an archaeological site. It lists the group members and breaks down the ceramics found by type, including percentages of pearlware, whiteware, creamware and other ceramic wares. It also describes differences in tea wares and dining wares that may indicate if the site was a domestic residence or brothel. Additionally, the document shows images of some of the glass bottles, buttons, coins and pipe bowls uncovered at the site to illustrate the variety of small finds.

1. Material Culture Final Project:
Group 4
Kate Deeley
Jonathan Song
Mohammed Vafai
Halsey Sinclair
Esther Jones

2. Ceramics

3. Ceramics
Pearlware “china glaze” (ca. 1775 – 1812) 49%
Pearlware (1780 – 1830)
Whiteware (ca. 1820 – present) 21%
Creamware (ca.1742 - ca. 1820) 3.6%
Chinese Export Porcelain 10%
Redware8.5%
Gray Stoneware 1.4%
White Granite (ca. 1840 – present) 0.9%
Yellowware1.4%
Bone China 1.7%
Stone China 0.9%
China Glazed Prnt 0.4%
Tin Glazed 0.2%

4. Ceramics: Ware Types
Redware
Tin Glazed
Creamware
China Glaze
Pearlware
Whiteware
Chinese Export Porcelain
Bone China
Gray Stoneware
Stone China
White Granite
Yellowware
Other

5. Cost of tea ware vs. cost of dining ware
Context Mid 19th Century Brothel vs. Domestic residence
• “During the early 19th century, meals
• brothel vs. domestic take on the form of a ritual and are the
residence (family and/ or time when women affirm moral values
of the family (Wall 1987:25)”
lodgers).
• Wall equates changes in ceramic
assemblages of the New York
households with this increasing
• Identifying distinctive ritualization of meals, which in turn is
linked to the growth of women’s sphere
aspects of prostitutes' lives in households.”(Klein 79)
through their artifacts is
• Plates- pearl edge, cream, common
difficult unless there is a place plates -
base line of normalcy. • Teawares- all more expensive and
elaborate in design and aesthetics

6. • Availability
• Popularity of particular styles
• Meaning within society
» Socio-economic status
» Ethnicity
» Class
» Gender

7. Ceramics: Vessel Types
Tea
Table
Serving
Preparation
Storage
Multi-Purpose
Unidentified
Misc.
Hygiene
House

8. Ceramics – Everyday Wares
Blue Shell-
Edged
Pearlware
Green
Shell-Edged
Pearlware

9. Canova Pattern
Willow Pattern
LaFayette at Franklin’s
Tomb – Handleless Cup

10. Glass
Wine Bottles
Glass Tumbler

11. Henry’s Calcined Magnesia Bottles
Ethical Bottles Essence of Peppermint Bottles

12. Perfume Bottle Urinal for Women

13. Small Finds
Bone Buttons Mother of Pearl Buttons
American Dime (Liberty Head) American small cent (Indian Head)

14. Pipe Bowls
Pipe Bowl with
Masonic Crest