Buried Chinatowns

Category: Glass

Rock Springs Chinatown Glass Bottle Finishes

June 18, 2025

Hello, this is Luis Lopez and I am glad to be a part of the Summer 2025 Wyoming Chinatowns research team. After a week of working on learning and cataloging various artifacts, I wanted to focus on glass and share how I identified two particular glass fragments from the 1991 excavation of the Rock Springs…
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Glass Ink Bottle at Rock Springs Chinatown

June 6, 2025

Hi everyone! This is Avajane and I am rising second year Anthropology major from Washington DC. I am doing a MAP (Mentored Advance Project) with Professor Ng and this is my first post on the Buried Chinatowns blog. Over the past week and half, our summer MAP has been cataloging and identifying artifacts excavated in…
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Piecing together a historical flask’s identity

February 27, 2024

Hello everyone, This is Evan again, back to share another historical bottle from Evanston Chinatown… or what’s left of it, anyway! While cataloging artifacts excavated during 2005 and 2006, we have come across many shards from a highly decorated, green bottle. While we were initially unable to identify it, a large side panel shard immediately…
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