Friday Varia and Quick Hits
It’s well and truly autumn here in North Dakotaland. Morning temperatures struggle to reach the top half of the Fahrenheit dial and the trees are changing. The semester is starting to get its legs and I think I’m slowly emerging from my late summer malaise.
More than that, we’re approaching the famous sports singularity where football, meaningful baseball, early summer cricket, and the first whiff of the NBA season all start to crowd a calendar filled with late season NASCAR and Formula 1. What makes this all more challenging is that the weather is still nice enough to tempt me outside for runs or pushbike rides. And a bout with “the malaise” has left with me with a stack of books to read, lingering papers to write, publishing projects to complete, and other odds and ends.
Not to mention a little pile of quick hits and varia:
On Class and Elitism in Archaeology. (H/t to Grace Erny)
Some new books
Archaeological Investigations in a Northern Albanian Province: Results of the Projekti Arkeologjik i Shkodrës (PASH). Volume 1 and Volume 2 and Data. Free to read for a limited time.
“What Does This Have To Do With Archaeology?”: Essays on the Occasion of the 65th Birthday of Reinhard Bernbeck. Free.
Excavations at Pyla-Kokkinokremos: Report on the 2014-2019 Campaigns. Not free, but also not too expensive.
Magic City: How the Birmingham Jazz Tradition Shaped the Sound of America. Not yet published.
What I’m reading: Charles Orser, Living Ceramics, Storied Ground: A History of African American Archaeology. 2023.
What I’m listening to: Charles Gayle, Touchin’ on the Trane.
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