Pottery Pieces Made From Terracotta

Vase reproductions, bark baskets and projectiles during a conference by archaeologist David Laroche. Corporation Archéo-08

These shards (or fragments) of pottery made of fired clay come from Abitibi Lake and are of type ‘Blackduck’. They are from the Late Woodland period (1100 to 900 year BP, before present). They faded at the snap, by the print on the rod and punctuations.  Made for everyday purposes, pottery pieces were used as containers, for cooking, storing, preserving, and moving food.

This object is a great example of pottery made according to Blackduck traditions as it was found on the eastern edge of Abitibi-Témiscamingue, where it was distributed. This tradition covers a large area north of the Great Lakes. This object represents an example of one of the last ceramic production by local people, the Algonquin’s ancestors, before they switched to Huron pottery techniques in the middle of the Late Woodland period.

Quote : «Fragment de vase (fiche no 212099)», in Archéolab.Québec, Pointe-à-Callière, cité d’archéologie et d’histoire de Montréal, 2017. https://www.archeolab.quebec/recherche/objet/212099. Accessed in October 2019.