Pottery in Alberta
Pottery in Alberta

Author: Marylu Antonelli

Publisher: University of Alberta

Published: 1978

Total Pages: 198

ISBN-13: 9780888640239

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A history of the pottery industry in Alberta, which began around the turn of the century in Medicine Hat, where clay deposits and natural gas were abundant. This is a dramatic story of temperamental entrepreneurs who were fierce rivals and who had fires, world wars, a depression, high freight rates and cheap imports to contend with.

Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990
Alberta pottery industry, 1912-1990

Author: Anne Hayward

Publisher: University of Ottawa Press

Published: 2001-01-01

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1772824127

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This study focuses on the economic and social impact of the pottery industry, both locally and nationally. Drawing on the rich primary sources of company records and catalogues, existing factory buildings and equipment, photographs and newspaper accounts, this book tells a fascinating story enriched by the memories of the people who worked in the plants.

Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory
Ceramics in Circumpolar Prehistory

Author: Peter Jordan

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-03-07

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 1108577504

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Throughout prehistory the Circumpolar World was inhabited by hunter-gatherers. Pottery-making would have been extremely difficult in these cold, northern environments, and the craft should never have been able to disperse into this region. However, archaeologists are now aware that pottery traditions were adopted widely across the Northern World and went on to play a key role in subsistence and social life. This book sheds light on the human motivations that lay behind the adoption of pottery, the challenges that had to be overcome in order to produce it, and the solutions that emerged. Including essays by an international team of scholars, the volume offers a compelling portrait of the role that pottery cooking technologies played in northern lifeways, both in the prehistoric past and in more recent ethnographic times.