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- Wood-fired kiln
- In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 17
- Figure 15 shows another kind of kiln used by Piedmont potters. This wood-fired kiln operates on a cross-draft airflow with a fire at one end creating hot air that flows to a chimney at the other end. In this respect it is similar to the early “groundhog”...
- By Dirk Frankenberg.
- Modern Kilns
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- Modern Kilns
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- The process of archaeology
- In Prehistory, contact, and the Lost Colony, page 2.11
- Archaeologists use several processes to address questions about the past. They may gather new data by conducting regional surveys to locate archaeological sites. Occasionally sites are partially or completely excavated to address specific research questions or to salvage information prior to disturbance by a development project. All data recovered are thoroughly analyzed following scientific inquiry procedures before conclusions are reached.
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- Naval stores and the longleaf pine
- In Colonial North Carolina, page 6.4
- North Carolina's extensive longleaf pine forests provided the natural resources needed to produce materials needed to build and maintain ships -- not only timber but tar, pitch, and rosin. These "naval stores" became North Carolina's most important indusstry in the eighteenth century, but today, the longleaf pine forests are nearly gone.
- Format: article
- By David Walbert.
- Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use
- A “virtual field trip” through the North Carolina Piedmont and thousands of years of history explains the origin of Piedmont clays and how clay is made into pottery. With high-resolution photographs.
- Format: slideshow (multiple pages)
