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Common artifacts: Daub and fired clay
About this photograph
- Provider
- Research Laboratories of Archaeology
- Date created
- 1998–2003
- Location
- North Carolina
- License
- This photograph copyright ©1998. All Rights Reserved
- Source
- Original image housed by Research Laboratories of Archaeology
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- Excavating Occaneechi Town: An archaeology primer: Republished with permission from the Research Laboratories of Archaeology, the Archaeology Primer uses photographs of the excavations at Occaneechi Town to introduce fundamental concepts of archaeology. The primer provides an introduction to the methods of archaeology and to some common types of artifacts, and prepares students to participate in an electronic archaeological dig. (Page 36)
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- Search LEARN NC for American Indian towns, American Indians, archaeology, artifacts, excavations, North Carolina, and Occaneechi.
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Photograph of daub and fired clay artifacts found at Occaneechi Town. Daub and fired clay are created when clay is hardened by fire. Daub represents mud plaster used to construct wattle-and-daub houses. It normally exhibits stick impressions from the wattle. Fired clay lacks the stick impressions and may represent daub, plaster from around the smoke hole in the roof, or pieces of a hearth.
