Abstract
Stoneware has long been held by archaeologists as a problematic artifact category. Stoneware is troublesome to date with any precision, difficult to source, and decidedly less flashy than even the most pedestrian porcelain. However, a study of stoneware sherds from the Manila galleon wreck in Baja California is an opportunity for gaining additional knowledge about the contents of a ship that was in the vanguard of the Manila galleon trade, at the very brink of a revolution in global commerce. This chapter provides a description of the main types of stoneware jar fragments found at the wreck site and comparisons with other stoneware jar assemblages of known provenience.
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Schlagheck, J. (2021). The Stonewares of the Baja California Manila Galleon. In: Williams, S.S., Junco, R. (eds) The Archaeology of Manila Galleons in the American Continent. SpringerBriefs in Archaeology(). Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71524-3_5
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