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Charles C. Kolb, “Charlie,” now a retired archaeologist, was a program officer for National Endowment for the Humanities (1991–2012) responsible for research and archival and library development projects. Charlie grew up in Erie, Pennsylvania, where he was born in 1940. After high school, he enrolled at The Pennsylvania State University and joined the Air Force ROTC program (1959–1962), preparing students to become officers while earning a college degree, which he obtained in 1962. These early studies trained him in navigation and aerial photo interpretation, chemistry, and history. After completing undergraduate studies, he submitted his dissertation, “Classic Teotihuacán Period Settlement Patterns in the Teotihuacán Valley, Mexico,” and received a PhD from Penn State in 1979. William T. Sanders and Frederick R. Matson, who were members of his graduate committee, and by Louis B. Dupree, guided his professional career.
As lecturer at Bryn Mawr College and...
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Arnold, D.E. 2014. A professional and personal view of Charles K. Kolb. In Social dynamics of ceramic analysis: New techniques and interpretations, ed. S.L. López Varela, 1–3. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Kolb, C.C. 1973. The thin orange pottery of central Mexico. In Miscellaneous papers in anthropology, Occasional papers in anthropology, ed. W.T. Sanders, vol. 8, 309–377. University Park: The Pennsylvania State University, Department of Anthropology. [Also issued as a separate monograph].
Kolb, C.C. 1977. Technological investigations of Mesoamerican ‘Thin Orange’ ware. Current Anthropology 18 (3): 534–536.
Kolb, C.C. 1997. Analyses of archaeological ceramics from classic period Teotihuacán Mexico, AD 150–750. In Materials issues in art and archaeology V, Symposium proceedings, ed. P.B. Vandiver, J.R. Druzik, J.F. Merkel, and J. Stewart, vol. 462, 247–262. Pittsburgh: Materials Research Society.
Kolb, C.C. 2008. Petrographic analysis of Afghanistan ceramics: Neolithic through the Iron age. In Materials issues in art and archaeology VIII, Symposium proceedings, ed. P.B. Vandiver, F. Casadio, B. McCarthy, R.H. Tykot, and J.L. Ruvalcaba Sil, vol. 1047, 147–174. Pittsburgh: Materials Research Society.
Kolb, C.C., and L.M. Lackey. 1988. A pot for all reasons: Ceramic ecology revisited: Papers dedicated to Frederick R. Matson. Philadelphia: Temple University, A Special Publication of Ceramica de Cultura Maya.
Further Reading
Kolb, C.C., ed. 1988. Ceramic ecology revisited 1987: The technology and socioeconomics of pottery, BAR international series. Vol. S-436. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Kolb, C.C., ed. 1989. Ceramic ecology 1988: Current research on ceramic materials, BAR international series. Vol. S-513. Oxford: British Archaeological Reports.
Lopez Varela, S.L., ed. 2014. Social dynamics of ceramic analysis: New techniques and interpretations. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Lopez Varela, S.L., ed. 2017. Innovative approaches and explorations in ceramic studies. Oxford: Archaeopress.
Matson, F.R., ed. 1965. Ceramics and man. Chicago: Aldine Publishing Company.
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López Varela, S.L. (2020). Kolb, Charles C.. In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_3467-1
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