Archaeology

Over the last week or so, I’ve continued to iterate on the paper that I’ll deliver at EAAs next week. Like all conference papers (or at least all of my conference papers), it’s a bit too much of everything and not enough of what matters resulting in it being a pile of “meh.” That being… Read More →

Last week, I made an attempt at a short paper that I plan to deliver at the EAAs next week. I was sort of ambivalent about the paper largely because I got hung up on the idea that scale is a problem in archaeology. To be clear, I still think that moving between scales in archaeology is a challenge and… Read More →

I’m giving two papers at EAAs. The first, I’ve toiled with for a few months. The other paper is like a benign parasite that’s been hanging around in the back of my head for just as long but has wiggled its way to the surface. The paper is in a lightening session organized by Becky… Read More →

In a couple of weeks I’m giving a paper at the European Archaeological Association meetings. I’ve posted a draft of the paper, and, frankly, it’s a bit of a mess. First, it is a partly compressed form of a much larger paper destined, ideally, for publication. Second, it’s still too long for my session at the EAAs. In other… Read More →

Over the weekend, I was in an entertaining Twitter conversation about archaeological data and publishing. The chat, as they often do on Twitter, became quite wide ranging, straying into the such charged areas as sandwich making and piano playing, but one of the more salient and thought-provoking points was that the end result of archaeological work… Read More →

Sara Perry has an intriguing article in the most recent issue of Advance in Archaeological Practice 6.3 (2018), “Why Are Heritage Interpreters Voiceless at the Trowel’s Edge? A Plea for Rewriting the Archaeological Workflow.” She proposes that heritage interpreters should have a greater role in the excavation (and, I would assume, survey) process rather than being introduced… Read More →

I’ve spent the last three months toiling over a paper that I’m scheduled to give at the European Archaeological Association meetings in September. I’ve posted parts of it here on the blog and gotten feedback from various folks. My panel is supposed to pre-circulate their papers today, and I do have a draft, but it’s pretty rough… Read More →

Every now and then an article catches in my head for some reason. Recently it’s been a JMA article by Donald Haggis who was wrote in response to a conversation between Robin Osborne and James Whitley on the nature and meaning of archaeological context. Osborne proposed that collections in the museums, despite the tendency to be decontextualized by archaeological standards, still have… Read More →

Over the last few weeks I’ve been snacking on John Bintliff, Emeri Farinetti, Božidar Slapšak, and Anthony Snodgrass’s Boeotia Project, Volume II: The City of Thespiai: Survey at a Complex Urban Site (2017). It’s a big book that is both impressively synthetic and filled with many distinct observations on the distribution of ceramics and survey methodology. The… Read More →

Over the last three months I’ve been fretting and toiling about a paper that I’m writing for European Archaeological Association meeting in September that is due to pre-circulate on August 1. I promised myself to have a completed draft done by July 15, not so much to fulfill some vague Germanic need to have things… Read More →

Since I’ve been home, I’ve been working my way through some recent scholarly on survey archaeology as we begin to analyze the data from the Western Argolid Regional Project. Hopefully I’ll have time to blog more at length about articles like, Marica Cassis, Owen Doonan, Hugh Elton, James Newhard, “Evaluating Archaeological Evidence for Demographics, Abandonment,… Read More →

Over the last three months I’ve been fretting and toiling about a paper that I’m writing for European Archaeological Association meeting in September that is due to pre-circulate on August 1. I promised myself to have a completed draft done by July 15, not so much to fulfill some vague Germanic need to have things… Read More →

This week on the Western Argolid Regional Project, I’ve been running a few queries that compare the data from our original survey field walking and subsequent efforts to expand the assemblages present in these survey units. We termed these later efforts “resurvey” on WARP and thought they might be useful both to expand our generally small assemblages… Read More →

The folks on Western Argolid Regional Project are heading to the Tripoli museum and then to Tegea tomorrow while I stay back to take care of some editing and databasing. In anticipation of their trip, I looked up the section in my dissertation where I talk about the Early Christian basilica there that was excavated… Read More →