The shift from the use of French faience and continental European coarse earthenwares to the use of Anglo-American (primarily British manufactured) ceramic types in Spanish colonial southeastern Louisiana is examined. Ceramic collections from seven sites and site groups were analyzed using a paradigmatic classification. Frequency seriation and mean ceramic dating were utilized to determine when British ceramics came into widespread use. Comparative archaeological data and probate records were used to further refine the chronology. The results were then synthesized with the historic record to establish the context in which the change occurred The archaeological, comparative, and documentary source data demonstrate that Anglo-American ceramics became widely available in southeastern Louisiana ca. 1780. The historical record indicates that while they may have begun to arrive during the American Revolution, use expanded immediately following the war. French and American trade through the West Indies and direct trade between the French and the British provided sources of supply. Following the introduction of British wares, ceramic assemblages rapidly became Anglo-American in character. By 1800 there was little use of French ceramics
