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 →
The second part of our piece for the Journal of Field Archaeology’s 50th anniversary issue is a bit scrappier than the first, but I think it says many of the things that we want to say (even if the citations and some elements of emphasis remain unpolished). If you want some background to what this… Read More →
A few weeks ago, I was hard at work on a draft of an article for the Journal of Field Archaeology’s 50th anniversary. You can follow some of the article’s development by tracing the links in this post. The article, “Mobilizing the Archaeological Report for a Future of Reuse: Linked Open Data in the Scholar-Driven… Read More →
Yesterday, I started writing again after about two weeks of puttering around with other things. It was a bit like going on run after a few weeks away. It was painful and I was proud to avoid vomiting. That said, it wasn’t a good writing day. It was dutiful and not entirely unproductive. As the… Read More →
My stack of articles “to read” is pretty scary these days, but I was really glad to find time to read Michael Given’s 2020 article, “Attending to Place and Time: Seasonality in Early Modern Scotland and Cyprus” from the European Journal of Archaeology 23(3). This article is another in Given’s recent work to apply the concept… Read More →
Over the past week or so, I’ve been making my way slowly through Ivan Illich’s Tools for Conviviality (1973) over the last few weeks, and it has really helped me refine (let’s say?) some of my ideas on work in the Bakken and (wait for it…) slow archaeology. For Illich, the expansion of technology, professionalization, and… Read More →