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Libya: as the front advances

Perhaps this is a symptom of my distorted mental map of the Greek world, but until earlier this week I…

Uncontacted Conquests

As I have discussed before, I spend either a surprising or unsurprising amount of time thinking about uncontacted people. Any…

Legends of Lost Cities: A Quest for Authenticity or Justification?

Lately I have been thinking a lot about lost cities. To be more specific, the popular fantasy that an ‘intact’,…

Color Shock: Reality and Black and White Photos

As I fall into a swirl of sensory stimulation, I give more thanks to the Library of Congress for providing…

Marie Antoinette Markers and Costume Continuity

I’ve always found ‘dressing up’ to be a remarkably complex activity. It is also weirdly divisive: love or hate, you…

A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age

“The State of Recorded Sound Preservation in the United States: A National Legacy at Risk in the Digital Age”

Bones II

So a few blogs back I wrote a bit about the whole Geronimo/Skull and Bones deal. Little has happened since…

Everest: Good for the Sherpa? Good for my PhD?

It seems I am party to swirling momentary obsessions that cripple any attempt to do anything else. The internet is…

Invention & Reinvention: Perceptions & Archaeological Practice

Hot off the presses…several months ago, and otherwise respectable.

The right to isolation (and other empty promises)

Last night I was thinking about uncontacted peoples which, for some reason, I devote a surprising amount of time to…from…

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