Archaeology

I’m not a huge “Day of Archaeology” guy. I guess I should be, but most of my days as an archaeologist involve not quite enough archaeology for me to talk openly about my work as an archaeologist per se. But, whatever, there seems to be some excitement about the Day of Archaeology this year, so… Read More →

Over the last decade, I’ve been messing around with the relationship between photography and archaeology. As Y. Hamilakis has noted photography and archaeology are “two collateral apparatuses of modernity.” Hamilakis and F. Ifantidis have found new ways to interrogate and reflect on the relationship between photography and archaeology in their new book, Camera Kalaureia (2016). Snippets… Read More →

Last month, my colleagues and I wrote a short paper for a Journal of Contemporary Archaeology forum on the archaeologies of forced and undocumented migration. Our paper focused on our work on the North Dakota Man Camp Project. Here’s the abstract This article summarizes the recent work of the North Dakota Man Camp Project to… Read More →

I’ve been pretty excited to follow Andrew Reinhard’s ongoing exploration of archaeogaming, which he defines broadly as the archaeology of and in and with video games. I stands firmly at the intersection of media archaeology and the archaeology of media (and probably the larger archaeology of knowledge project explore by Michel Foucault). It’s a provocative… Read More →

Richard Rothaus and I have been bandied about the idea of an “archaeology of care” for a couple years now. Richard’s contribution to our 2014 Punk Archaeology volume probably prompted this discussion, and it developed more fully in a blog post, our podcast, and an article for the North Dakota Humanities Council’s On Second Thought… Read More →

I like stuff. Readers of this blog know that my interest in things extends from by interest in archaeology, things, and ancient artifacts to modern audiophile gear and the things that archaeologists use in the field. As the first week of Western Argolid Regional Project is almost done, I wanted to share some of my… Read More →

One of the things that my friends and I said when we ran the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project is that we would publish promptly. We took that part of our responsibility as archaeologists seriously and produced our first volume documenting our intensive pedestrian survey work at the site as soon as we could. In fact, we… Read More →