Culture Impressed is a crowdsourced database of marked European clay tobacco pipes. The map, gallery, and database allow researchers of all backgrounds to easily study these culturally significant artifacts.
Pipe makers impressed information into clay tobacco pipes that archaeologists have sought to decipher since the earliest days of archaeology. This database focuses the remains of the marks that the pipe maker permanently affixed to the product.
This database is crowdsourced, which means that the data come from you. If you have marked pipe bowls from an archaeological or a museum collection, please add them to the Culture Impressed database by filling out a short form.
The Collections Management Committee of the Council of Virginia Archaeologists, the Commonwealth's professional archaeology organization, created Culture Impressed to collect, disseminate, and promote research on marked English tobacco pipes.