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Burial urns: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 7; Figure 5 shows some of the largest pots recovered from the Town Creek site. These are burial urns for infants.; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Clay drying: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 13; Figure 11 shows the clay drying area of a modern pottery. This area has a cement floor and a roof to keep the clay from being rained on as it dries enough to be ground. Note that the raw clay is full of lumps. These have to be pulverized by grinding and hammering....; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Coastal Plain cultures graphic organizer: In Two worlds: Educator's guide, page 2.5; As students read the article "Peoples of the Coastal Plain," this graphic organizer will help them develop an understanding of the cultures that existed in North Carolina's Coastal Plain hundreds of years ago.; Format: /lesson plan (grade 8 Social Studies); By Pauline S. Johnson.

Colonial restrictions on pottery: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 8; European colonists recognized clay as an important resource in developing their agricultural economy. Surprisingly, the king's governors restricted the manufacture of pottery because the British economic model for the empire (called mercantilism)...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Eighteenth-century pottery (1): In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 9; Figure 7 shows similarly representative examples of jugs and storage jars on the lower levels, and other utilitarian objects and not so utilitarian objects on the shelves above. The lower shelf has a covered jar and milk crock on the left, and a puzzle jug,...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Eighteenth-century pottery (2): In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 10; Figure 8 shows a further range of jugs and jars, a churn, and a pitcher. Note that each of these is of slightly different shape and color. Each represents the specific potter and glaze. Potters have individual styles even when repetitively making similar objects...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

The forest people: In Intrigue of the Past, page 3.3; Paleoindian culture died out across North America by 8000 BC. Archaeologists say this was bound to happen. The Ice Age had ended, the megafauna were extinct, and the boreal forests faded as deciduous ones spread across the East in the warmer climate. Faced with significant environmental changes, the Native Americans adapted. Archaeologists call their way of life and the time in which they lived Archaic.

From clay to pot: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 12; The remainder of this field trip is devoted to showing what humans must do to convert the clays recovered from the ground as shown in the first two photographs into the objects shown in Figures 3 through 9. We need to begin by describing what happens to native...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Gas-fired kiln: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 16; Figure 14 shows a modern gas-fired kiln in a year-round pottery. If you look closely inside the opening, you can see the remains of one of the ceramic temperature recorders (pyrometric cones) from a recent firing. The small white object on the fourth shelf...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Grinding clay: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 14; Figure 12 shows the belt-driven clay grinder, the shovel used to feed the clay into it, and the fine clay dust that coats everything around it. Clay grinding is an unavoidably dusty process but remains an essential part of the process of preparing clay for...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Interior of a groundhog kiln: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 19; Figure 17 shows the interior of a groundhog kiln during firing. Note the cherry-red color of the pots as the clay within them fuses together to make them hard and impervious. This is where the magical transformation of mud to stone occurs. This photograph...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Interior of a kiln: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 18; Figure 16 shows the interior of the kiln shown in Figure 15. The shape of the roof was achieved by building a wooden frame that looked like an upturned boat in the interior to support the firebricks of the roof until the full structure was complete and self-supporting....; By Dirk Frankenberg.

Looking at an object: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.10; Students will analyze unfamiliar objects in order to observe the attributes of an object, infer the uses of objects; and discover how archaeologists use objects to learn about the past.; Format: lesson plan (grade 5 English Language Arts and Social Studies)

Make your own cereal bowl: In this lesson for kindergarten, students will learn that the art of creating functional pieces of pottery in North America first began over 4000 years ago in North Carolina. Students will learn where clay comes from and will create their own pottery pieces.; Format: lesson plan (grade K Visual Arts Education); By Eileen Palamountain.

Measuring pots: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.7; Students will use an activity sheet or modern pottery rim sherds to compute circumference from a section of a circle and construct analogies based on their own experience about possible functions of ancient or historic ceramics.; Format: lesson plan (grade 8 Mathematics and Social Studies)

Mending pottery: In Intrigue of the Past, page 2.9; Students will mend broken pottery to learn what archaeologists learn by mending pottery.; Format: lesson plan (grade 4–5 Visual Arts Education and Social Studies)

Modern art pottery: In Clays of the Piedmont: Origins, recovery, and use, page 20; Figure 18 shows some examples of the finished product of the potter's art. These amazingly large objects were made by Mark Hewitt and fired in the kiln shown in Figure 15. These pots represent the acme of modern Piedmont art pottery in North Carolina. They...; By Dirk Frankenberg.

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