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Skibo Shares Expertise in Brazil
Dr. Skibo with students in Brazil
Dr. Skibo works with
Brazilian graduate students
on pottery analysis
James Skibo (Professor of Anthropology) recently traveled to Brazil on a Fulbright Senior Specialist Grant to participate in a seminar on ethnoarchaeology and archaeology ceramic analysis and to conduct a workshop on pottery use-alteration. The Fulbright Senior Specialist program provides short-term Fulbright grants of two to six weeks to provide U.S. faculty and professionals with opportunities to collaborate with professional counterparts body on curriculum and faculty development, institutional planning, and a variety of other activities. “Brazil has extremely diverse and interesting prehistoric ceramics,” said Skibo. “The objective of my visit was to share with them my method for determining pottery function and for understanding the relationship between pottery technology and use.”

In his first week in Brazil, Skibo was the featured speaker each day for the ethnoarchaeology and archaeology ceramic analysis seminar, held at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul. About 50 professional archeologists and graduate students from throughout Brazil were in attendance. During the second week, Skibo conducted a workshop at the Catholic University of Porto Alegre on the identification of pottery use-alteration traces, which was based on his book, Pottery Function.  

Currently, Skibo is the co-editor of the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, and the book series, Foundations of Archeological Inquiry. He has also written the popular archaeology book, Ants for Breakfast, and has edited five books on archaeological theory and ceramic analysis. This summer, Skibo will return to Grand Island in Lake Superior for a fourth season of excavation and will bring along 10 students from ISU and other universities to focus on a series of small camp sites that date between 800 A.D. and 1200 A.D.
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