High-quality
chronological information is essential to productive archaeological research.
Desert Archaeology's specialists have made significant refinements to both the
Tucson Basin Red-on-brown and the Phoenix Basin Red-on-buff ceramic typologies.
The result is much finer chronological resolution and major new insights into
change in the past.
Ceramicist
James Heidke has developed a new approach for assessing how prehistoric pottery
was used. This technique can highlight differences among contemporaneous settlements
and has been used to identify the areas within a community where founding populations
first settled.
Our
ceramic specialists are available to participate in cooperative research projects,
or to conduct analyses for specific projects.