Lindsay Bloch
Biographic Data
| ID | 4053400 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Lindsay Bloch |
| GIVEN NAMES | Lindsay |
| FAMILY NAME | Bloch |
| SIGNATURE | BLOCH L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Museum of Natural History |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2568-9003 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Why Colonoware? Exploring Functional Variations in Hand-Built Coarse Earthenwares across the Historical Upper Southeast
Colonoware, a hand-built, low-fired coarse earthenware, appears on archaeological sites occupied from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century throughout the southeastern United States. Although colonoware is highly variable in appearance and abundance, it is evident that subjugated and marginalized communities, including enslaved and free Africans and Indigenous people, produced, marketed, and used colonoware to contribute to, circumven…
Creating Standardized Guides for Pottery Temper Characterization
Many archaeological arguments are based on artifact identification, but to be replicable the categories must be well defined, with researchers able to consistently identify the relevant attributes. If data are to be compared across projects or researchers, the same training and reference material should be available. Standardized visual guides for specific artifact types and contexts are valuable tools for improving identification by individuals …
Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands
Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast
Shake, rattle, and roll
Ceramic rattles and rattle vessel adornos have received little attention in current Caribbean archaeology literature and may be overlooked or misidentified in Caribbean ceramic collections due to their minimal audibility or “failure” during the construction process. Here, we evaluate existing reports of rattle ceramics and adornos in the Caribbean and report on the discovery of rattle adornos within collections at the Florida Museum of Natural Hi…
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics
Variability across frontiers and boundaries challenges the resilience of expanding populations. Here, we contribute to a broader understanding of global patterns of island colonization and expose the diversity of lifeways experienced across the Taíno culture area by exploring Lucayan settlement of the small subtropical islands of the northern Bahama archipelago. The results of this first comprehensive investigation document the rapid expansion an…
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650-1550)
Production of Greater Antillean pottery and its exchange to the Lucayan Islands
Is It Better to Be Objectively Wrong or Subjectively Right
For many years, archaeologists have relied on Munsell Soil Color Charts (MSCC) as tools for standardizing the recording of soil and sediment colors in the field and artifacts such as pottery in the lab. Users have identified multiple potential sources of discrepancy in results, such as differences in inter-operator perception, light source, or moisture content of samples. In recent years, researchers have developed inexpensive digital methods for…
Human–environment interactions in a Bahamian dune landscape
Investigations were undertaken following the discovery of two Lucayan burials in an Atlantic coast sand dune on Long Island, The Bahamas (site LN‐101), in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. The dune burials were the first of their kind to be documented and systematically excavated, and they were associated with uncommon Atlantic coast Lucayan sites. We describe the first systematic archaeological prospection and investigation of coastal …
Production origins and matrix constituents of spiculate pottery in Florida, USA
Fine-grained “chalky” pottery containing microscopic sponge spicules is commonly recovered from archaeological sites throughout peninsular Florida, but many questions remain about its composition and origins. It is identified by different names, but most are associated with the St. Johns Type series. While it has been commonly assumed to originate in the St. Johns River drainage for which it is named, the prevalence of pottery with these characte…
“With sundry other sorts of small ware too tedious to mention”
This chapter examines the ceramics consumed by plantation residents, most of them enslaved, to understand their role in the consumer revolution. It examines petty consumerism in plantation settings of the Middle Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States, using several lines of evidence that address ceramic production, marketing, distribution, and retailing, as well as use and discard. In particular, the chapter considers how access to a…
An Elemental Approach to the Distribution of Lead-Glazed Coarse Earthenware in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
Unlike many goods in the eighteenth century, which were wholly imported, utilitarian coarse earthenwares were also produced locally within the American colonies. In the Chesapeake region, it has been suggested that these local wares were primarily reserved for those unable to directly participate in the transatlantic credit economy fostered by the tobacco consignment system. Rather than relying on ambiguous visual attributes to identify these war…
An Elemental Approach to the Distribution of Lead-Glazed Coarse Earthenware in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
Unlike many goods in the eighteenth century, which were wholly imported, utilitarian coarse earthenwares were also produced locally within the American colonies. In the Chesapeake region, it has been suggested that these local wares were primarily reserved for those unable to directly participate in the transatlantic credit economy fostered by the tobacco consignment system. Rather than relying on ambiguous visual attributes to identify these war…
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650-1550)
Human–environment interactions in a Bahamian dune landscape
Investigations were undertaken following the discovery of two Lucayan burials in an Atlantic coast sand dune on Long Island, The Bahamas (site LN‐101), in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. The dune burials were the first of their kind to be documented and systematically excavated, and they were associated with uncommon Atlantic coast Lucayan sites. We describe the first systematic archaeological prospection and investigation of coastal …
Production origins and matrix constituents of spiculate pottery in Florida, USA
Fine-grained “chalky” pottery containing microscopic sponge spicules is commonly recovered from archaeological sites throughout peninsular Florida, but many questions remain about its composition and origins. It is identified by different names, but most are associated with the St. Johns Type series. While it has been commonly assumed to originate in the St. Johns River drainage for which it is named, the prevalence of pottery with these characte…
Production of Greater Antillean pottery and its exchange to the Lucayan Islands
Shake, rattle, and roll
Ceramic rattles and rattle vessel adornos have received little attention in current Caribbean archaeology literature and may be overlooked or misidentified in Caribbean ceramic collections due to their minimal audibility or “failure” during the construction process. Here, we evaluate existing reports of rattle ceramics and adornos in the Caribbean and report on the discovery of rattle adornos within collections at the Florida Museum of Natural Hi…
Is It Better to Be Objectively Wrong or Subjectively Right
For many years, archaeologists have relied on Munsell Soil Color Charts (MSCC) as tools for standardizing the recording of soil and sediment colors in the field and artifacts such as pottery in the lab. Users have identified multiple potential sources of discrepancy in results, such as differences in inter-operator perception, light source, or moisture content of samples. In recent years, researchers have developed inexpensive digital methods for…
An Elemental Approach to the Distribution of Lead-Glazed Coarse Earthenware in the Eighteenth-Century Chesapeake
Unlike many goods in the eighteenth century, which were wholly imported, utilitarian coarse earthenwares were also produced locally within the American colonies. In the Chesapeake region, it has been suggested that these local wares were primarily reserved for those unable to directly participate in the transatlantic credit economy fostered by the tobacco consignment system. Rather than relying on ambiguous visual attributes to identify these war…
“With sundry other sorts of small ware too tedious to mention”
This chapter examines the ceramics consumed by plantation residents, most of them enslaved, to understand their role in the consumer revolution. It examines petty consumerism in plantation settings of the Middle Atlantic and Southeast regions of the United States, using several lines of evidence that address ceramic production, marketing, distribution, and retailing, as well as use and discard. In particular, the chapter considers how access to a…
Production origins and matrix constituents of spiculate pottery in Florida, USA
Fine-grained “chalky” pottery containing microscopic sponge spicules is commonly recovered from archaeological sites throughout peninsular Florida, but many questions remain about its composition and origins. It is identified by different names, but most are associated with the St. Johns Type series. While it has been commonly assumed to originate in the St. Johns River drainage for which it is named, the prevalence of pottery with these characte…
Is It Better to Be Objectively Wrong or Subjectively Right
For many years, archaeologists have relied on Munsell Soil Color Charts (MSCC) as tools for standardizing the recording of soil and sediment colors in the field and artifacts such as pottery in the lab. Users have identified multiple potential sources of discrepancy in results, such as differences in inter-operator perception, light source, or moisture content of samples. In recent years, researchers have developed inexpensive digital methods for…
Human–environment interactions in a Bahamian dune landscape
Investigations were undertaken following the discovery of two Lucayan burials in an Atlantic coast sand dune on Long Island, The Bahamas (site LN‐101), in the aftermath of Hurricane Joaquin in 2015. The dune burials were the first of their kind to be documented and systematically excavated, and they were associated with uncommon Atlantic coast Lucayan sites. We describe the first systematic archaeological prospection and investigation of coastal …
Production of Greater Antillean pottery and its exchange to the Lucayan Islands
Island Colonization and Human-Environment Interactions on the Edges of the Tropics
Variability across frontiers and boundaries challenges the resilience of expanding populations. Here, we contribute to a broader understanding of global patterns of island colonization and expose the diversity of lifeways experienced across the Taíno culture area by exploring Lucayan settlement of the small subtropical islands of the northern Bahama archipelago. The results of this first comprehensive investigation document the rapid expansion an…
Sourcing ritual specialists in ancient Tampa Bay (AD 650-1550)
Shake, rattle, and roll
Ceramic rattles and rattle vessel adornos have received little attention in current Caribbean archaeology literature and may be overlooked or misidentified in Caribbean ceramic collections due to their minimal audibility or “failure” during the construction process. Here, we evaluate existing reports of rattle ceramics and adornos in the Caribbean and report on the discovery of rattle adornos within collections at the Florida Museum of Natural Hi…
Creating Standardized Guides for Pottery Temper Characterization
Many archaeological arguments are based on artifact identification, but to be replicable the categories must be well defined, with researchers able to consistently identify the relevant attributes. If data are to be compared across projects or researchers, the same training and reference material should be available. Standardized visual guides for specific artifact types and contexts are valuable tools for improving identification by individuals …
Palmetto Ware Pottery of the Lucayan Islands
Spanish Signatures? XRF Analysis of Iron Artifacts in the American Southeast
Why Colonoware? Exploring Functional Variations in Hand-Built Coarse Earthenwares across the Historical Upper Southeast
Colonoware, a hand-built, low-fired coarse earthenware, appears on archaeological sites occupied from the mid-seventeenth to the mid-nineteenth century throughout the southeastern United States. Although colonoware is highly variable in appearance and abundance, it is evident that subjugated and marginalized communities, including enslaved and free Africans and Indigenous people, produced, marketed, and used colonoware to contribute to, circumven…
Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (10 works) · Archaeology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies (7 works) · Pottery (6 works) · Cultural Heritage Materials Analysis (5 works) · History (5 works) · Geology (4 works) · History (4 works) · Computer Science (3 works)