DAACS Cataloging Manual: Ceramics OCTOBER 2018 DAACS Cataloging Manuals document how artifacts, contexts, features, objects and images are cataloged into the DAACS database. They provide information not only about artifact identification but also about how each database field is used and how data should be entered into that field. The DAACS database was developed by Jillian Galle and Fraser Neiman, in collaboration with members of the DAACS Steering Committee . Jillian Galle and DAACS Staff, Leslie Cooper, Lynsey Bates, Lindsay Bloch, Elizabeth Bollwerk, Jesse Sawyer, and Beatrix Arendt, led the development of cataloging protocols. In addition to DAACS staff and steering committee members, Monticello current and former Archaeology Department staff, Fraser Neiman, Jennifer Aultman, Sara Bon-Harper, Derek Wheeler, Donald Gaylord, Karen Smith, and Nick Bon-Harper also contributed to the development of cataloging protocols. Jennifer Aultman and Kate Grillo produced the initial versions of these DAACS manuals in 2003. They have been substantially revised by Cooper, Galle, and Bloch in the intervening years. This manual was last updated: October 10, 2018 2 INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................... 9 1. CERAMIC ARTIFACT ENTRY ........................................................... 10 1.1 COUNT ............................................................................................................. 10 1.2 WARE .............................................................................................................. 11 1.3 MATERIAL ......................................................................................................... 12 1.4 MANUFACTURING TECHNIQUE .............................................................................. 13 1.5 VESSEL CATEGORY .............................................................................................. 14 1.6 FORM .............................................................................................................. 14 1.6.1 Teaware .................................................................................................. 14 1.6.2 Tableware ............................................................................................... 15 1.6.3 Utilitarian ................................................................................................ 15 1.6.4 Other Forms ............................................................................................ 16 1.6.5 Gastroliths ............................................................................................... 16 1.6.5 Gaming pieces ......................................................................................... 16 1.7 COMPLETENESS .................................................................................................. 17 1.8 DECORATION? ................................................................................................... 17 1.9 MENDED? ........................................................................................................ 17 1.10 EXTERIOR SURFACE ........................................................................................... 17 1.11 EXTERIOR COLOR .............................................................................................. 17 1.12 EXTERIOR GLAZE OPACITY .................................................................................. 19 1.13 INTERIOR SURFACE............................................................................................ 19 1.14 INTERIOR COLOR .............................................................................................. 19 1.15 INTERIOR GLAZE OPACITY ................................................................................... 19 1.16 CERAMIC TABLE SPECIAL CASE: DETACHED AND MISSING GLAZE ................................... 20 1.16.1 Detached Glaze ..................................................................................... 20 1.16.2 Missing Glaze ........................................................................................ 20 2. MEASUREMENTS ............................................................................ 20 2.1 SHERD THICKNESS ............................................................................................... 20 2.2 MAXIMUM SHERD MEASUREMENT ........................................................................ 21 2.3 SHERD WEIGHT .................................................................................................. 21 3 2.4 MENDED SHERD WEIGHT ..................................................................................... 21 2.5 RIM LENGTH ..................................................................................................... 21 2.6 RIM DIAMETER .................................................................................................. 21 2.7 MENDED RIM DIAMETER ..................................................................................... 21 2.8 BASE LENGTH .................................................................................................... 21 2.9 BASE DIAMETER ................................................................................................. 21 2.10 MENDED BASE DIAMETER .................................................................................. 22 3. DECORATION ................................................................................... 22 3.1 GENERAL ......................................................................................................... 22 3.1.1 Genre ...................................................................................................... 22 3.1.2 Pattern Name .......................................................................................... 22 3.1.3 Pattern Notes .......................................................................................... 22 3.2 DECORATIVE ATTRIBUTES ..................................................................................... 22 3.2.1 Interior/exterior ...................................................................................... 22 3.2.2 Location .................................................................................................. 23 3.2.3 Decorative Technique ............................................................................. 23 3.2.4 Decoration Color ..................................................................................... 23 3.2.5 Stylistic Element...................................................................................... 24 3.2.6 Motif ....................................................................................................... 25 3.2.7 Recording Transfer-Printed Decoration ................................................. 28 4. WEAR/CONDITION ......................................................................... 29 4.1 EVIDENCE OF BURNING ....................................................................................... 29 4.2 POST-MANUFACTURING MODIFICATION ................................................................. 29 4.3 WEAR LOCATION ............................................................................................... 29 4.4 CERAMIC COMPLETENESS .................................................................................... 29 4.5 WEAR PATTERN ................................................................................................ 29 5. BASE MARK ..................................................................................... 30 5.1 BASE MARK ...................................................................................................... 30 5.2 BASE MARK COLOR ............................................................................................ 30 4 5.3 BASE MARK REFERENCE ...................................................................................... 30 6. COARSE EARTHENWARE PROTOCOLS ........................................ 31 6.1 NON-BATCHED “AMBIGUOUS IMPORTED” AND “LOCALLY-MADE” COARSE EARTHENWARES . 31 6.1.1 Earthenware Type .................................................................................. 31 6.1.2 Paste Color ............................................................................................. 32 6.1.3 Oxidized vs. Reduced Fabric ................................................................... 32 6.1.4 Total Paste Inclusion Density .................................................................. 32 6.1.5 Coarse earthenware Inclusions ............................................................... 32 6.2 “LOCALLY-MADE” COARSE EARTHENWARE .............................................................. 35 6.2.1 Locally-made and ambiguous imported Coarse Earthenware Batching protocols .......................................................................................................... 36 6.2.2 Non-batched locally-made coarse earthenware protocols ................... 37 6.2.3 Earthenware Type ................................................................................... 39 6.2.4 Decoration Mode ................................................................................... 39 Vessel Shape Descriptor Fields ......................................................................... 39 6.2.5 Vessel Shape .......................................................................................... 39 6.2.6 Orifice Type ...........................................................................................