Ceramics for Field Archaeologists

Pottery is the workhorse evidence of most excavations, and this one-week intensive teaches you to read it like a field specialist does, moving from sherd in hand to claims about technology, fabric, form, and date. You'll spend most of the time on real assemblages: sorting, identifying wares, drafting technical drawings, and trying out digital and archaeometric tools, with a portfolio as the deliverable. It's a practical add-on for graduate students heading into fieldwork, giving you enough grounding to design your own ceramic analysis program rather than handing the pottery bucket to someone else.