Amanda works closely with the Joshua Tree National Park and the descendant communities from the California Desert to create identifiable groups for the pottery found in Joshua Tree National Park. Amanda’s typology aims to standardize pottery recording by park and help tribal archaeologists to attempt to better connect descendant communities with use areas in the park. This project differs from past attempts to create typologies in this area by focusing on the compositional makeup of the sherds through both binocular and petrographic analysis.