DAACS staff members Beth Bollwerk and Lindsay Bloch traveled to the University of Toronto last month to deliver a lecture on ongoing colonoware research for UT’s Archaeology Centre, followed by a hands-on DAACS workshop for Dr. Nkem Ike’s (DAACS Summer Institute Fellow 2025) African Diaspora Archaeology class.
Students dove into ceramic sorting (ware types: mastered!), calculated relative frequencies, and compared Mean Ceramic Dates across four enslaved quarter sites at Monticello. These exercises gave students direct experience with how archaeologists use material culture to trace change over time at plantation sites — and what those broader patterns might reveal about the lives of both enslaved families and the elites who inhabited those landscapes.
