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Christina L. Bolte

  • Position: Faculty Research Associate
  • Department: Archaeology Institute
  • Office Location: Bldg. 89
  • cbolte@uwf.edu
  • Campus: 850-474-3394

Biography

Christina L. Bolte is the Collections Manager and a Faculty Research Associate within the UWF
Archaeology Institute. Christina manages UWF’s archaeological material holdings under federal
and state curation standards and best practices as well as conducting and facilitating collections-
based research, exhibition, and education.


Christina is also a Registered Professional Archaeologist (RPA) and has participated in
archaeological investigations in Northwest Florida, Tennessee, Jamestown, Virginia, as well as
the Auvergne region of France. Prior to coming to UWF, Christina was the Lab/Collections
Manager at the ETSU Valleybrook Archaeological Education and Curation Center. She has
engaged in documentary research, materials analysis, and excavations of the 1559-1561 Tristán
de Luna settlement on Pensacola Bay since its discovery in 2015. Her thesis, “There They Went
to Die, and Some Returned:” Mexica-Tenochca Indigenous Allies, Neutron Activation Analysis,
and the 1559-1561 Luna Settlement Effort in Pensacola, Florida” focused on the indigenous
participants from Mexico that accompanied the expedition.


Christina is a member of several historical and archaeological associations, including the Society
for Historical Archaeology (SHA), Southeastern Archaeological Conference (SEAC), American
Society for Ethnohistory (ASE), Pensacola Archaeological Society (PAS), and serves on the
Council of the North American Society for Oceanic History (NASOH).


Christina’s research interests delve into various topics, including the late prehistory of the
Southeastern U.S., Spanish contact and colonialism in the Americas, maritime archaeology and
history, as well as artifact conservation, curation, and collections management.

Degrees & Institutions

Christina received a bachelor’s degree in anthropology from East Tennessee State University
(ETSU) and a master’s degree in anthropology/historical archaeology from the University of
West Florida (UWF).

Keywords: Historical Archaeology, Collections and curation, Spanish contact and colonialism, ethnohistory