Ceramic Technology Lab

SAA 89th Annual Meeting New Orleans April 17-21, 2024

Society for American Archaeology 2024 Meeting in NOLA

Apr 16, 2024

Many of our lab members are heading to the Big Easy this week to participate in the 89th Annual Meeting … Continue

three women standing together in front of a research poster

Pan-American Ceramics Project at SEAC 2023

Nov 28, 2023

As a junior scholar in the field and a new researcher in the US Southeast, I was thrilled to receive … Continue

Southeastern Archaeological Conference 2023 in Chattanooga

Oct 24, 2023

Several current and former members of our lab will be presenting their research in Chattanooga, TN, this week as part … Continue

Infographic labeled "A handy guide to Caribbean ceramic identification- Chicoid". With descriptive writing and several hand-drawn ceramic sherds, including incised sherds and adornos. Descriptive writing as follows in bullet points: The latest pottery series in Rouse's (1992) series. Quickly overtook other pottery series by AD 1350. People making Chicoid pottery intermarried with other communities and appropriation came soon after. The latest series to be imported into the Lucayan Islands. Common to see incising and adornos. Adornos can be animalistic or humanoid. Incised lines very clean and even. Effigy vessels are common. Credit: Emily Kracht (@emweasels)

Pottery Series of the Caribbean

Jun 21, 2022

Learn the difference between the common ceramic series of the Caribbean (Rouse 1992) with these cheat sheets from Collections Assistant … Continue

Society for American Archaeology Presentations

Mar 29, 2022

Joining us in Chicago March 30-April 3, 2022 for the SAA Annual Meeting? Be sure to check out our posters … Continue

illustration of three Indigenous women in traditional clothing and tattoos, sitting on a beach and forming pottery, with canoes at waters edge behind them

Clear As Mud: The Origins of Early Pottery in the Lucayan Islands

Jan 20, 2022

Check our our new article on pottery production in the Bahamas and Turks and Caicos, originally published in Times of … Continue

microscope images of pottery pastes compared to different pottery surface decoration and network diagrams

Talk Dec. 18 by Dr. Andrea Torvinen: A Monte Carlo approach to estimating plausible ceramic similarity values from fabric characterizations

Dec 4, 2020

A Monte Carlo Approach to Estimating Plausible Ceramic Similarity Values from Fabric Characterizations December 18, 2020, 1:30PM EST Andrea … Continue

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