Wednesday, January 10, 2007

Watkins SIR (Fall 2006)

I get the impression that people are not posting these because they don't have time to write a big long entry. In that spirit, I am posting an abbreviated SIR as an example.

-=Courses=-
Only one course this year:

Comparative Southwestern Ceramics - In this course, we learned to type ceramics from across the southwest, and compared them to one another. Interesting note - most people agreed that Fremont painted pottery is in the Red Mesa style, so much so that some of the Crow Canyon folks wondered whether some of the displaced Mesa Verdeans landed in the Fremont area around AD 900. Check this website for some really cool lab manuals and type descriptions, including one for the Fremont by yours truly.

-=Research=-
Finishing:
1. A paper on the Fremont Ceramic typology
2. A paper on structure contemporeneity at Five Finger Ridge

Dissertation:
Analyzed a bunch of sherds for my D.
Am working on an automated method to digitally analyze petrographic thin sections.

-=Next Term=-
Taking Chiefdoms from Spielmann (the incoming Shallit lecturer) and Ben Nelson
More D research
More Fremont papers

1 comment:

Mr. Yoder said...

I really like the ceramics page. And nice entry on the Fremont ceramics. Very usefull.