James M. Heidke

Jim has extensive experience analyzing Native American pottery made from 2100 BC through the early 1900s. Interests include fired clay containers and figurines, the emergence of pottery, petrographic method and theory, and quantitative methods. Working in close collaboration with DAI petrographers, he has developed an objective and testable method for the binocular microscopic identification of sand temper. An important aspect of that research relates to the statistical analysis of sand and sand temper composition point-count data.