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An appeal from our executive director

December 22, 2012

Reblogged from Colorado Plateau Archaeological Alliance: Hello Friends of CPAA: As the end of another year approaches, we want to offer our thanks to you, our Facebook friends, for your support as we launched ourselves into the social media arena. We may not always agree with each other – just read through some of the […]

Digital Engagement in Archaeology Conference- Introduction Video

November 8, 2012

I am at the Digital Engagement in Archaeology Conference recording the great talks. I will be putting up all of the videos of most of the talks over the next few days. To start out here is introduction:

Guest Post: 'Welcome to Commercial Archaeology: A Biased Introduction'.

October 15, 2012

Reblogged from These Bones Of Mine: Charles A. Hay is a field archaeologist currently working for Wessex Archaeology. He has worked for 3 other archaeological units, including Cambridge Archaeological Unit and the University of Sheffield. His writings, including investigations of philosophy and original short stories, can be found at Have A Philosophy, whilst his drawings, […]

Killing Giants- A how to guide for demolishing an institution, demonstrated by Microsoft and copied by Universities

September 11, 2012

I read this good article, Microsoft’s Lost Decade by Kurt Eichenwald, and could not help but see the parallels between what was described and the modern university system (other systems too but this post will stick with education). I highly recommend you read the whole article. A brief excerpt from the article sums it up: […]

A Few Words about Proposals, Science, and Archaeology

August 3, 2012

Reblogged from Archaeology in Tennessee: For the past 30 years, I have worked for scientific consulting firms. Some of those firms, such as Battelle Memorial Institute and Oak Ridge Associated Universities, were internationally known “think tanks” like the Rand Corporation out in California. Some of my other companies were very small with as few as […]

"Seems Like an 82": Subjective Assessment and the Problem of Value in Higher Education

May 18, 2012

Reblogged from Temple University Anthropology: Well, it is that time of the year again. Grades. We give them, we get them, but what does it mean? Being a graduate student puts you in an interesting place for this tradition of value. We assign a letter to mean how well you have understood a concept, tradition, […]

Better Archaeology Outreach- Record and Podcast Your Talks

March 20, 2012

Every year hundreds of talks and presentations are given around the world on archaeology yet how many people listen? Maybe a couple dozen and if you are lucky a few hundred. This is not because people are not interested, though some are not. It is because these talks are spread out over hundreds if not […]

Google Map Your Road Trip Like A Roman

March 14, 2012

Dan at Archaeopop has just put up a great post on a new map website Omnes Viae which allows one to plot routes along the old Roman roads. You can read Dan’s review – http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2012/03/more-ancient-map-madness-omnes-viae.html You can see the actual website here- http://omnesviae.org/ It is pretty amazing! The website even has 2000 Geo-located Roman towns […]

Things I Wish I Had Known About Archaeology

February 8, 2012

I helping create a guide for new archaeologists to the world of commercial archaeology. It has got me thinking about what I wish I had known before I became an archaeologists. In no particular order here are some of the thinks I wish I had known. Pay- Yes, everyone also said pay was bad but […]