A Closer Look at Ceramic Pottery from Terrace, Utah

Utah Libraries and History · February 25, 2025

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Excavation and initial recovery

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Unidentified Speaker described excavating materials from Transcontinental Railroad contexts and the painstaking process of beginning to piece fragments together to reconstruct vessels.

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Unidentified Speaker described archaeological work on Transcontinental Railroad sites in Terrace, Utah, including a first-of-its-kind program sending Chinese ceramic samples to a reactor lab in Missouri for elemental fingerprinting to connect fragments to specific kilns in China.

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