Last year, I started doing capoeira with my wife and son. In case you didn’t know, capoeira is a Brazilian martial art that was created by African slaves. It features fast, deadly kicks hidden behind flowing, dance-like motions. The Brazilian slaves were not allowed to practice capoeira openly so they […]
(This is part of a new and ongoing series called Thor’s Day Cultural Resource Management Archaeology Hacks. Quick as lightning, these tips are designed to help you make the impact of Mjölnir on your next project.) Nobody cares about your work the way you do……er, the way you should. You […]
Sometimes I wonder what I could see if I were invisible and had a time machine. Just a ghost that could travel through time and sit back to observe people as they do what they do. They couldn’t see me but I could see them. I wonder what I would […]
Around 1:30 AM, I knew this pain was not going to go away easily. I sat up in bed, my right ear throbbing. Stabbing pain shot through the right side of my sinuses whenever I moved my cranium. Rubbing acupressure points around my ear did nothing. The pain in the […]
My Wife: “You’re buying another backpack? What’s wrong with your old one?” Me: “Well…(laundry list of marginal defects that MIGHT or might not cause breakage in the field.)” Wife: With a slight smirk. “Oh. Okay. Well that explains why you should get a new one.” Me: Fully aware that she […]
(This is part of a new and ongoing series called Thor’s Day Cultural Resource Management Archaeology Hacks. Quick as lightning, these tips are designed to help you make the impact of Mjölnir on your next project.) It happens in Arizona each summer. Somebody, and it isn’t always a tourist, decides […]
Don’t get me wrong. I’ve written garbage before. I have been guilty of writing exactly the same kind of cultural resource management archaeology report that I am about to excoriate in this blog post, but I learned my lesson after being told by several cultural resource management archaeologists I respect […]
(This is part of a new and ongoing series called Thor’s Day Cultural Resource Management Archaeology Hacks. Quick as lightning, these tips are designed to help you make the impact of Mjölnir on your next project.) My son is five-years-old. He is learning how to read and is totally killing […]
I’ve become addicted to studying World War I. As we are currently living through the centennial of this tragic mistake, I can’t help but compare doing cultural resource management archaeology to the kind of lessons the western world learned from the Great War. If CRM archaeology is like WWI, then […]
(This is part of a new and ongoing series called Thor’s Day Cultural Resource Management Archaeology Hacks. Quick as lightning, these tips are designed to help you make the impact of Mjölnir on your next project.) NOTE: I wrote about this last year and made a YouTube video that shows […]
