The SC Department of Natural Resources Heritage Trust program has been given the opportunity to collaborate in a study that will take an in-depth look at early pieces of pottery from the Carolinas and Colonial Virginia.
A near $255,000 grant from an independent federal agency, funds new research to advance the understanding of the lives of ordinary people who made and used pottery vessels known as colonoware.
Colonoware is a type of handmade, low-fired pottery with roots in Indigenous North American and African traditions. The research will shed light on “how potters and pottery consumers responded to very different colonial economies,” according to Elizabeth Bollwerk, project manager and principal investigator for the grant…