The new semester begins tonight at 5 pm (or something). This is my first semester with tenure which I officially received on August 15. It felt a lot like my team winning the World Series (which I have experienced) or the Super Bowl. I woke up the next day expecting things to be or feel… Read More →
Readers of this blog know that the arrival of a new Hesperia is not quite a good as Christmas, but probably as fun as a close relative returning home after a long trip. (You know the feeling, when you know that there are goodies for you in their bag.) I was particularly excited to see… Read More →
My summer will be broken in half this year with the first five weeks in Cyprus and the second part of the summer in beautiful Grand Forks. So it makes sense to break my summer reading list in half as well. I’ll admit that I am somewhat embarrassed by some of my goof-off reading. I’m… Read More →
David Pettegrew and I are working on a paper (very slowly, I might add) about peasants for a conference next winter. Our current plans are to look at three contexts for peasants: the Isthmia corridor outside of the ancient city of Corinth, a fortified area around a small harbor southeastern coastal of the Corinthia, and… Read More →
I was really excited to see a paper on the Early Byzantine site of Kaukana in Sicily in the most recent volume of the American Journal of Archaeology: R. J. A. Wilson, “Funerary Feasting in Early Byzantine Sicility: New Evidence from Kaukana,” AJA 115 (2011), 263-302. The article describes a bizarre (and creepy) house burial… Read More →
This month David Pettegrew and I put together an abstract for a proposed panel at the 2012 Archaeological Institute of America meeting on peasants in antiquity. The motivation for submitting an abstract was our long-standing interest in the Corinthian countryside as well as our interest in the archaeology of rural habitation. Despite these interests, I’m… Read More →
I have finally completed (well, almost) a pre-publication draft of an article based on my conference paper in October at the Corinth in Contrast conference in Austin. For more on this paper and my struggle to understand the ambivalence in the 6th century AD Corinthian landscape check out the posts here, here, here, here, here, here,… Read More →
Most archaeologists know that there is a clear link between our the material remains of the past, the methods that we use as a discipline to document them, and our view of past social organization. I’ve been thinking about this a good bit over the past two month as I work to revise for publication… Read More →