A Diachronic Perspective on Colonoware from the J. Joyner Smith Plantation

Recent work on SC DNR’s Fort Frederick Heritage Preserve, once part of the J. Joyner Smith Plantation in Beaufort County, South Carolina, offers an opportunity to study changes in ceramic consumption through time. Utilizing archaeological samples from several distinct occupations on this Sea Island cotton plantation, we chart changes in colonoware abundance, in particular, and relate them to larger socio-economic changes taking place across the region during the early 19th c. In addition to using DAACS data in our comparative analyses, we draw on a constellation of thoughtful archaeological research on slave settlements in Beaufort County.针对南卡罗来纳州自然资源部（South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, SC DNR）所辖的弗雷德里克堡遗产保护区开展的最新研究——该区域曾为南卡罗来纳州博福特县J·乔伊纳·史密斯种植园的一部分——为探究不同时期陶器消费变迁提供了绝佳契机。本研究依托该海岛棉种植园多处不同考古居住遗存层出土的考古标本，重点梳理了殖民陶（colonoware）的数量变化轨迹，并将其与19世纪早期该区域的宏观社会经济变迁建立关联。除在对比分析中采用比较奴隶制考古数字档案（Digital Archaeological Archive of Comparative Slavery, DAACS）的相关数据外，本研究还借鉴了博福特县奴隶定居点考古领域的一系列严谨细致的研究成果。