This summer (2017) is the first time I haven’t had to do archaeological fieldwork since 2004. It’s not that I didn’t have the chance to do archaeology. I’ve been invited to volunteer on several projects but am between jobs so I have to watch my pennies (Y’all know how that […]
I had no idea that my discussion of drinking culture among archaeologists would lead me to write over 5,000 words of blog posts. This is the third post in a series on how binge drinking among archaeologists is both a benefit and a shortcoming. In Part I, I talked about […]
Continuing last week’s blog post about archaeology fieldwork, conferences, and binge drinking, I just want to make a confession: This last weekend, I was a binge drinker. It’s NFL playoffs season. The Seahawks played poorly and I had an archaeologist friend come in from out of town. I ended up […]
This year’s Society for Historical Archaeology (SHA) Conference in Fort Worth, Texas was just as amazing as ever. Texas is a fine place but, wherever there’s archaeology, there’s wholesome, intellectual entertainment. This is the 14th SHA conference I’ve attended and it never disappoints. I saw a lot, learned a lot, […]
I’m not a fortune teller but I’m pretty sure the recent unpleasantness associated with the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) will spawn a number of books and articles about cultural resource management archaeology, historic preservation, and environmental justice. It’s likely a few individuals will generate whole careers based […]
Growing up in Idaho, the closest I ever came to meeting a real-life archaeologist is when I touched a cardboard cutout of Indiana Jones at my local video store when the Last Crusade came out. I knew that was what I wanted to do as an adult (or become an […]
In downtown Fredericksburg, Virginia there’s a coffee shop—Hyperion Coffee—at the corner of William and Princess Anne Streets. I used to go there often on the weekends when I worked at George Washington’s Ferry Farm. Fredvegas is hot in summer, but I still hung on to the tradition of drinking a […]
Cultural resource management archaeologists: Want to hear something that will make your blood boil? Remember that grave-robbing, site-looting show “Nazi War Diggers”? It’s baaaaaack. The most recent rendition is called “Battlefield Recovery” and airs on the UK’s Channel 5. More digging skeletons out of context. More unnecessary burial excavations. More […]
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 […]
The 2016 Anarchaeology Workshop is upon us. For the next 48 hours (4/21 through 4/22/2016), archaeologists, anarchy theorists, and others will converge upon the Amerind Foundation for an series of workshops dedicated to exploring the ways anarchy theory can be used to better understand past times that have not been […]
