Last week, I witnessed my third #dayofarch and was pleasantly surprised to see the prominence of blog posts about a number of great cultural resource management archaeology projects happening around the globe. For those of you who do not know, the Day of Archaeology I’m talking about was launched in […]
I once heard a story about paper and archaeology that I will never forget. A close friend told me that she once worked at an emergency data recovery project in Arizona where a prehistoric village had just been inadvertently discovered. The excavations included the meticulous removal of a significant number […]
I’ve heard most of the arguments against going paperless in cultural resource management archaeology and I can tell you the risks far outweigh the benefits: Doesn’t it take more time to record sites using tablets? What if the technology fails? What if we break our tablet/laptop in the field? It’s […]
For a person who is building a career based on the study of human beings, I have to confess: I really don’t like other people. The main problem with other people is they aren’t me. They have their own lives, thoughts, experiences, and perspectives that differ with the way I […]
