Student Perspectives

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 … Continued

Comparison of modern shell temper (above) and fossil shell temper (below). Adapted from Sorresso and Quinn 2020

Fossils in the Archaeology?

Jun 29, 2020

“Archaeologists Don’t Dig Dinosaurs” is a well worn refrain, but occasionally we find that fossils were an important part of … Continued

What Goes into Pottery Analysis?

May 13, 2020

As an undergraduate student researcher in the Ceramic Technology Lab and Caribbean Archaeology, much of my work involves analyzing pottery … Continued