Contact
Florida Museum of Natural History
Dickinson Hall
1659 Museum Road
Gainesville, Florida 32611-7800
352-273-1920
nwallis@flmnh.ufl.edu
Collections
Florida Archaeology and Bioarchaeology
Other Affiliations
Education
Ph.D., University of Florida
Research Interests
My research program is focused on understanding the development and transformation of social networks and communities in the precontact past. In particular, I am concerned with discovering the specific practices, engagements, social organizations, and power dynamics among people that left conspicuous archaeological signatures of settlement aggregation, monumentality, religiosity, and artistic expression. The geographical and temporal focus of my research is Florida and adjacent states during the last three millennia of human experience. In addition to traditional field and laboratory techniques, I use materials analyses, such as mineralogical and chemical characterization of ceramics, to better understand artifact provenance and histories of use.
Publications
Research News
Archaeologists uncover centuries-old mystery of Tampa Bay’s secret community of migrant potters
Key Points Archaeologists have debated for decades over how Mississippian-style pottery ended up in Tampa Bay, an area long left…
Key Points As global oyster populations decline and fisheries collapse, archaeologists may be able to inform effective management with valuable,…
Florida pottery expert, Ann Cordell, receives lifetime achievement award
Florida is peppered with broken pottery, vestiges of a time when Indigenous people throughout the peninsula molded clay into cooking…