As readers of this blog know, I’m scheduled to give a paper at a conference in August in Seoul, Korea. The conference is hosted by Korean National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and ICCROM (International Centre for the Study of the Preservation and Restoration of Cultural Property) and titled World Archaeology: Archaeology of Landfills. A… Read More →
By the time you’re reading this, I’m winging my way to Cyprus via Minneapolis, New York, and Athens to the start of my summer research season. Like every year, when the dust of the semester settles, I start to see a bit more clearly the tasks that ahead of me. Cyprus comes first. We’ll spend… Read More →
Over the weekend, I got a chance to read Lita Tzortzopoulou-Gregory’s very recent article on “Archaeology of the Post-medieval World in Greece: The Last Two Decades” in a festschrift for Tim Murray titled Archaeology, History, Philosophy and Heritage. The article is a great place to start any consideration of the archaeology of contemporary Greece. Lita… Read More →
As readers of this blog know, I’ve been working on a paper that I’ll give in August as at conference on landfills. Last week, I introduced some of the writing that I’ve been doing lately on that Atari Alamogordo Expedition in 2014 (!!). This is part of larger paper on the the archaeology of contemporary… Read More →
On Friday, David Pettegrew and I are giving a paper titled “Convivial Survey and Publication of the Corinthian Countryside: Lessons Learned from the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey” in Seville, Spain (via Zoom). This will draw fairly heavily on a paper that we’ve prepared for the Journal of Field Archaeology. My responsibility for the paper is… Read More →
Last month, I excitedly accepted an invitation to attend a conference in Korea hosted by Archaeological Heritage Division of the Korean National Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and a group called ICCROM. I have to admit that the invitation flattered my ego (always the downfall of academics) and made me curious about visiting Korea. The… Read More →
Cyprus has long hung out “betwixt and between” the Aegean Greek world and the Near East. As a result, scholarship on Cyprus can sometimes be marginalized neither being “Greek” enough to appear in the places where scholars publish on the Greek world or Near Eastern enough to appear in appear in typical Near Eastern venues.… Read More →
After a week of travel, it’s a bit hard to get back into the swing of things, but I managed a little time to write on Monday and even on Tuesday amid a bunch of grading. My main focus has been on re-reading my manuscript and trying to give it a more coherence. As readers… Read More →
I read with some excitement the very recent article by Martina Cecilia Parini and Martijn van Leusen in the Journal of Field Archaeology titled “Analyzing Low-Density Assemblages from Fieldwalking Surveys: Hellenistic and Roman Land Use in the Sibaritide (Calabria, Italy).” The article is rich and complex like so much good methodological work is. The article… Read More →
I learned a few things from going on Flint Dibble’s YouTube channel last week and had a fun time chatting with Flint and the audience (which at one point was over 1000 viewers). Since then, over 4000 people have watched the video and it has generated some thoughtful conversation in the comments. This conversation and… Read More →
Every now and then, especially when I’m trying to cram more into a week than there is time and also try to recover a bit for the final push of the semester, some bizarre coincidence captures my attention. This week, I was reading a bit about Egar Cayce, the famous early 20th century clairvoyant who… Read More →
Over the weekend, I got a bit of reading done. Perhaps not as much or as systematically as I would have liked, but still reading none the less. Article the First The first piece I read as a study of oil as media that drew on concept of agential realism: Elia Vargas, “Field Notes for… Read More →
This week involved lots of little things which is both fun and frustrating for any efforts at productivity, but useful for a Three Things Thursday. Thing the First On Monday, issue 92.1/2 went to press featuring a great little editors’ note from our student editorial assistant. For the last two months, students in my Practicum… Read More →
In the fall, I was asked to write a little note for the CAARI Newsletter about the recent volume that I edited with Kostis Kourelis and Dar Brooks Hedstrom: Beyond Icons: Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology in North America (2024). It’s always a bit tricky writing about your own book (even if it’s an… Read More →
