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Earlier this week I packed up my father's pickup truck and headed north from Florida to my hometown, Winston-Salem, North Carolina...for the last time. It's good to be back in a place with hills, colored leaves, and cold weather during the winter months. The...
Update 7:25 am Sunday: I was up at 6:20 am this morning in order to arrive at Kennedy Space Center before they close the gates. I've been monitoring the NASA control center audio feed and after announcing that one of the four fuel sensors has failed during...
Every once in a while I'll come across something that almost makes living in Florida worth it. This time it's the space program two hours east of Tampa over at Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral. On Thursday, Shuttle Atlantis (STS-122 in NASA terms) was...
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linked to by 9Welcome to the newest installment of the anthropology blog carnival, The Four Stone Hearth. The submissions this time are quite good, so let's get right to it:Cheers to Carl at Hot Cup of Joe (Dallas/Ft. Worth, United States), who writes about GPS use in archaeological...
linked to by 2One of the most fascinating discussions in my Theory course last semester was about how ancient women have been described in the archaeological literature and how such portrayals are a reflection of the decidedly sexist history of academic archaeology. While...
linked to by 1Everyone should read a story published today in the Washington Post, both for its entertainment value and what it says about our society and human nature. It's a sociological experiment of sorts involving Joshua Bell, a violist who has been described as a musical...
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Conference Report: From Venice to Dresden | European Journal of ArchaeologyAnother reason to improve my German. I’m pondering how you determine a desire is authentic, which I assume is different meaning from sincere.(tags: heritage archaeology politics...
Nomadic Thoughts: 67th Annual SfAA Meeting in TampaAnother possible useful link for my CA talk which may appear shortly.(tags: anthropology podcast academia)Aardvarchaeology : Danish Gold Fibula and RingWhy something apparently trivial can tell us a lot about...
Nomadic Thoughts: Portrayal of women in prehistory1,000,000 BC not accurate? Will Klinger draws attention to a new book on prehistory.(tags: archaeology prehistoric theory)...