Needs specialized material culture training for your team? Workshops are presented as half-day to week-long trainings, and include hands-on practice.
Available Workshops:
Introduction to Ceramics Analysis: Learn the techniques archaeologists use to understand pottery production and identification across time and space.
Historic Ceramics Identification: Learn how to identify pottery using a technology-based approach that puts ware types into context, emphasizing the relationships between manufacture, geographic and temporal variation. Special topics available upon request
Basic Historic Artifacts: A brief overview of the most common artifact types, including ceramics, glass, metal, and organic artifacts.
Historic Buttons: Learn how to identify the materials, manufacturing techniques, and decoration of buttons from the 18th-20th centuries.
Introduction to X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) for Archaeologists: Learn how XRF works and how it can be applied for archaeological research and curation.
Selected Past Workshops:
Historic Button Identification. Society for Historical Archaeology Annual Meeting, New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2025.
Historic Button Identification. Southeastern Archaeological Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, November 2024.
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Applications for Museum Research and Curation. Indiana University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology, February 2024.
Historic Artifacts Identification: Kenyon College, November 2023.
Historic Artifacts Identification: Back-to-African Heritage and Archaeology Project (BAHA), Monrovia, Liberia, May/June 2023.
Historic Artifacts Identification: Antom de Kom University, Paramaribo, Suriname, April 2023 (with DAACS.org).
Historic Ceramics Identification: SAA Online Seminar, October 2021. RPA-certified.
An Introduction to Collections-Based Research. Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, January 2019, 2021.
Identifying Historic Ceramics for Archaeologists. South Carolina Department of Natural Resources, April 2019, Columbia, SC.
Clear as Mud: A Toolkit for Identifying Coarse Earthenwares and Stonewares. Annual Meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology, January 2018. New Orleans, LA. (With Brenda Hornsby-Heindl).
X-Ray Fluorescence (XRF) Applications for Archaeology and Historic Preservation. George Washington’s Mount Vernon, April 2017, Mount Vernon, VA.