As many of you know, I’ve been puttering around on an integrity survey of the 1958 Levee and Flood Wall in Grand Forks, North Dakota. It’s been a fun, little project that combines my recreational walking route and some of my interest in riparian history both in Grand Forks and in the American West. The… Read More →
I’ve been very anxious about how little reading I’ve done lately. For whatever reason, I tend to think of my reading/writing life as a balance. When I find myself reading too much and writing too little, I start to feel like a dilettante. Lately, however, I’ve found myself writing too much and reading too little. Not… Read More →
A few years ago my wife, Susie, and I prepared a survey of over 3000 mid-century houses in Grand Forks, North Dakota. As a part of this work, we identified a couple early post-war neighborhoods in Grand Forks that we felt deserved further study. You can read our final report here. This past year, Susie… Read More →
I’ve been doing a good bit of work on Digital Press projects over the last month. It is very rewarding in that it both gives me time to think about the process of knowledge making and to help bring new works of scholarship and learning into existence. This is what’s prompted today “two thing Thursday”… Read More →
As I am getting older and more “senior” in my field, I am trying to say “no” to fewer things and do a bit more to give back to the field, my institution, and my colleagues. Sometimes this works our really well and sometimes… well, not so much. In general, people don’t ask me to… Read More →
This weekend, I had the pleasure of reading Grace Erny’s very recent article from the Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology, “Statistical Approaches to Small Site Diversity: New Insights from Cretan Legacy Survey Data.” It represents yet another significant contribution to the study of intensive pedestrian survey data and to the potential of reasonably well-published legacy “data.”… Read More →
This week I started to think more systematically about a seminar that I will co-lead in the fall (with Sarah Herr of Desert Archaeology) about publishing (with) digital archaeological data in collaboration with an NEH funded institute titled: Networking Archaeological Data and Communities. Since most of my experience in this regard is with the technical… Read More →
It is becoming a ritual now to celebrate the publication of the Corinth Excavations annual report in Hesperia, the flagship journal of the American archaeology in Greece. Since their first appearance three years (or so?) ago, they have attracted wonderment, some positive, and some critical attention. The reports largely do what they say on the… Read More →
This summer I read and savored Virginia Burrus’s Earthquakes and Gardens: St. Hilarion’s Cyprus (2023). It’s really good and is a must read for anyone even casually interested in Cyprus and quality academic writing (which, honestly, should be just about everyone). I’m not going to review this book here largely because it’s not the kind… Read More →
This is a long post. I had originally considered posting it as TWO posts or even just posting a PDF, but I decided to just go ahead and post the entire durned thing. Here is the preliminary report from our season at Polis. This is preliminary and provisional, of course. It’s rough in places and… Read More →
One of the simple pleasures of a study season is time to think actively with material. The last couple of weeks here in Cyprus, I’ve had the chance to study Roman lamps, look at kiln wasters, and attempt to sort out some stratigraphic and architectural relationships. I also had the chance to think about kilns,… Read More →
