Staff Spotlight
Ann S. Cordell
Staff Archaeologist
105 Dickinson Hall
Museum Road & Newell Drive
Gainesville, FL 32611
(352) 273-1924
Email: cordell@flmnh.ufl.edu
M.A. in Anthropology, University of Florida, 1983
FLMNH Ceramic Technology Laboratory
Research Interests
Ceramic technology, ceramic ecology, petrography of Florida, Southeast US and Caribbean. I conduct pottery analyses for FLMNH curators. I have studied prehistoric and historic aboriginal pottery from Florida, the southeastern US, and Caribbean. My primary focus is paste characterization studies, with a specialization in petrographic analysis of sherd thin sections. I also manage FLMNH's Ceramic Technology Laboratory, which houses an extensive type collection of prehistoric and historic period aboriginal pottery from Florida. These materials represent type specimens assembled by Ripley Bullen, John Goggin, and Gordon Willey, pioneers of Florida archaeology.
Current Projects
- Petrographic analysis of middle woodland charcoal tempered pottery from northeast Florida, with Neill Wallis (UF grad student) and Lee Newsom (MacArthur Fellow at Pennsylvania State University).
- Petrographic comparison of spiculate paste pottery from Polk and Highlands counties, Florida.
- Paste characterization of pottery from Surf Clam Ridge, Pineland site, Lee County, Florida.
Outreach
Workshop on prehistoric Florida pottery for the Florida Anthropological Society, May 2005
Representative Publications
Cordell, A.S. In press. Technological Investigation of Pottery Variability at the Pineland Site Complex. In: The Archaeology of Pineland: A Coastal Southwest Florida Village Complex, edited by K.J. Walker and W.H. Marquardt, Monograph 4 of the Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Cordell, A.S. 2004. Paste Variability and Possible Manufacturing Origins of Fiber-tempered Pottery from Florida. In Early pottery: technology, function, style, and interaction in the lower Southeast, edited by R. Saunders and C.T. Hayes, pp. 63-104. University of Alabama Press.
Cordell, A.S. & S.H. Koski. 2003. Analysis of a Spiculate Clay from Lake Monroe, Volusia County, Florida. The Florida Anthropologist 56(2):113-124.
Cordell, A.S. 2002. Continuity and Change in Apalachee Pottery Manufacture. Historical Archaeology 36(1):36-54.
Herbert, J.M., J.K. Feathers & A.S. Cordell. 2002. Building ceramic chronologies with thermoluminescence dating: a case study from the Carolina sandhills. Southeastern Archaeology 21(1):92-108.
Cordell, A.S. 2001. Continuity and Change in Apalachee Pottery Manufacture. University of South Alabama Anthropological Monograph 9.
Milanich, J.T., A.S. Cordell, V.J. Knight, Jr., T.A. Kohler, & B.J. Sigler-Lavelle. 1997. Archaeology of Northern Florida A.D. 200-900: the McKeithen Weeden Island Culture. University Press of Florida, Gainesville.
Cordell, A.S. 1993. Chronological Variability in Ceramic Paste: a comparison of Deptford and Savannah Period Pottery in the St. Marys River Region of Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia. Southeastern Archaeology 12(1):33-58.
Cordell, A.S. 1992. Technological Investigation of Pottery Variability in Southwest Florida. In: Culture and Environment in the Domain of the Calusa, edited by W.H. Marquardt, pp.105-189. Monograph 1 of the Institute of Archaeology and Paleoenvironmental Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville.
Rice, P.M. & A.S. Cordell. 1986. Weeden Island Pottery: Style, Technology, and Production (with Prudence M. Rice). In: Ceramics and Civilization, Volume II, edited by W.D. Kingery, pp. 273-295. American Ceramic Society.