I completed my B.A. Honours here at McMaster University in the spring of 2016 with a double major in Anthropology and History. During my undergraduate time at McMaster, I was a research assistant in the Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Research on Archaeological Ceramics (LIRAC) and at McMaster’s Sustainable Archaeology Repository. For my M.A. project, I will be examining the stylistic choices made by Neutral Iroquoian potters who lived here in the Hamilton area about four centuries ago. Using petrographic microscopy, a geological/material science technique, I intend to explore the pastes (clay recipes) used by potters in the multi-nation Neutral Confederacy. Throughout the various stages of manufacturing material culture, styles employed by craft producers are often influenced by the social contexts in which they are produced. With this, I seek to address how changing political, economic, and social conditions of the 17^th century affected the transmission of technical style by potters within one nation of the confederacy. Through my project, I hope to be encouraging a sustainable practice in Ontario archaeology by employing extant collections with new theoretical perspectives and methodological techniques to address questions on Ontario’s past.