I just finished my entry for the SAR prize this year. If our session gets chosen, we get to have a special seminar in New Mexico. These seminars often yield publications and are great collaborative sessions, so it would be great to be able to go! I reworked my WAC session (here’s the previous version) [...]
Though they don’t seem to be terribly popular, here are parts two and three of the series:
Meg Conkey, Ruth Tringham, Henrietta Moore, and Alison Wylie were asked to speak at Cambridge for the Personal Histories in Archaeological Theory and Method series, and happily there is video of the talk. If you’ve never had an archaeological theory class, these women are all formative thinkers in feminist, structuralist and post-processual archaeology. I uploaded [...]
Hey, one of my posts made Four Stone Hearth:
http://ahotcupofjoe.wordpress.com/2008/03/26/the-four-stone-hearth-37-the-pulp-scifi-edition/
I love the Sci-Fi imagery.
Several of my fellow archaeology graduate students are also skilled photographers, and we’ve gone out on photo-taking expeditions together, usually to places that yield a certain amount of gorgeous decay. I do not consider myself to be a photographer of any skill–my practice in this regard is just snapping things that I think are interesting–but [...]
After writing a hundred pages or so for my field statements, due a couple of weeks ago, I’ve been a little short on words. It’s slowly coming back to me though, and Spring Break is helping immensely. I’ve been reading and taking notes in preparation for my orals, and it’s been a luxurious break from [...]
Some great new photos have been popping up at Archaeology in Action, the flickr group dedicated to showing archaeologists doing their thing:
From alverstonedig, a muddy dig on the Isle of Wight. They found well preserved Iron Age timbers (with visible axe-marks), a Roman causeway and–this kills me–a hazel leaf, pressed into the bog.
From shovelingtom, a [...]
As we experience the new electronic and organic age with ever stronger indications of its main outlines, the preceding mechanical age becomes quite intelligible. Now that the assembly line recedes before the new patterns of information, synchronized by electric tape, the miracles of mass-production assume entire intelligibility….What will be the new configurations of mechanisms and [...]
Something in me had snapped, was broken beyond repair. My taste had been central to my identity. I’d cultivated it, kept it fed and watered like an exotic flowering plant. Now I realized that what I thought had been an expression of my innermost humanity was nothing but a cloud of life-style [...]
A story on NPR about Braille city maps for the blind instantly reminded me of some artifacts I had read about during one of my literature surveys for my oral exams (Place as Recently Imagined by Archaeologists, to be exact).
Peter Whitridge wrote a brilliant article titled Landscapes, Houses, Bodies, Things: “Place” and the Archaeology of [...]
