Books

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 →

I was under the weather all weekend, so instead of writing, I spent some time with a couple book and trying to rest and stave off the beginnings of a cold before a hectic week begins. The two books that I read are odd bedfellows: Nora Goldschmidt’s Fragmentary Modernism: The Classical Fragment in Literary and… Read More →

This weekend I had the pleasure of reading Renee Gladman’s TOAF. Originally published in 2008, it was republished in 2024 by the Dorothy Project. It is a lovely book that everyone who cares about writing should read. The best thing that someone can say about this book is this (and Danielle Dutton refers to this… Read More →

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of Sean Rafferty’s latest book on pseudoarchaeology: Mythologizing the Past: Archaeology, History, and Ideology (2025). It was a fun romp through some of the more egregious and nefarious examples of pseudoarchaeology and the kind of book that will sit next to Garrett Fagan’s Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents… Read More →

Over the weekend, I had the pleasure of Sean Rafferty’s latest book on pseudoarchaeology: Mythologizing the Past: Archaeology, History, and Ideology (2025). It was a fun romp through some of the more egregious and nefarious examples of pseudoarchaeology and the kind of book that will sit next to Garrett Fagan’s Archaeological Fantasies: How Pseudoarchaeology Misrepresents… Read More →

David Pettegrew and I are working to finish some revisions on our paper for the Journal of Field Archaeology’s 50th anniversary issue. Our paper (which you can sample here and here) benefited immensely (from our perspective) from the feedback of the three peer reviewers. In particular, they nudged us to tighten up our use of… Read More →

Just a quick blog post today as I’m doing a bit of holiday traveling! This year’s Public Domain Day is pretty fantastic. For those of you who don’t know, Public Domain Day is the day that copywriter works enter the public domain. For books under a US copyright, books, art, music, and some other works… Read More →

As I dig deeper and more broadly into the past and future of pseudoarchaeology, I’ve been really enjoying following various threads that contribute that inform the pseudoarchaeological project. One particular thread that I’m finding particularly fruitful is the relationship between pseudoarchaeology and science and speculative fiction. My buddy Dimitri Nakassis let me know about Benjamin… Read More →

A few years ago, I decided to live blog my Thanksgiving morning. This has turned into indispensable resource when each year I try to remember how long it too to smoke the Turkey and what I should be doing on Thanksgiving morning. On that Thanksgiving, I read Krysta Ryzewski’s Detroit Remains and listening to Lee… Read More →

Last week, I spend a two days in transit to the ASOR annual meeting. It was a great time to catch up on some reading and I read two through provoking books that will continue to inform my thinking and research for the foreseeable future. Book the First I should have read Scott Trafton’s book… Read More →

I have spent the last couple of weeks on airplanes which — as sad it might sound — have become places where I catch up on professional reading. So I’ve filled my time with wicked problems, grimoires, Atlantis, and reflections on the discipline. Not only has this given me a bit of momentum, but also… Read More →

I have spent the last couple of weeks on airplanes which — as sad it might sound — have become places where I catch up on professional reading. So I’ve filled my time with wicked problems, grimoires, Atlantis, and reflections on the discipline. Not only has this given me a bit of momentum, but also… Read More →