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Ryan Stander’s Topos/Chora: Online Edition
We are very pleased to announce that the Online Edition of Ryan Stander’s photography exhibition Topos/Chora: The Photographs of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project is now live. The online exhibit includes over 60 photographs most of which are not appearing in Ryan’s gallery show at the Empire Arts Center (which continues through the end of February). In addition, to the photographs we have included a whole bunch of bonus features:
- An interview with the photographer
- A collection of reflective essays written by participants of the project in response to both Ryan’s photographs and the landscape at Pyla-Koutsopetria.
- The trailer for an upcoming documentary directed by Ian Ragsale and based on our field work in Cyprus
- An experimental, audio experience called Trench Sounds.
We are tremendously excited about Ryan’s work and we hope that these photographs spur further reflection both by PKAP team members, but also by people interested in landscape, photography, and archaeology more broadly. We hope to update the site from time to time if new material becomes available.
The website was developed using a brilliant application from George Mason’s Center for History and the New Media called Omeka. My public history interns — Chris, Gust, Sara McIntee, Kathy Nedergaard — prepared the metadata, layout, and proofing of the photographs and text. Support for their work and for the installation and maintenance of Omeka comes from the Working Group in Digital and New Media. Ryan’s work in Cyprus was supported by the Dean of the Graduate School at the University of North Dakota and the whole team at the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project Feed back is always welcome!
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More on Ryan Stander’s Topos/Chora: Photographs of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project
We are almost ready to release the online version of Ryan Stander's photo exhibition, Topos/Chora. For the last week, the exhibit has been up at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, North Dakota where it will stay all February.
Here's the press release (comliments of our most excellent Office of University Relations):
The exhibit Topos/Chora: Photographs of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project is featured now through the end of the month at the Empire Arts Center. The exhibit features the photographs of UND Master’s of Fine Art student Ryan Stander. These images were produced during Stander’s time as the artist-in-residence at Pyla-Koustopetria Archaeological Project in Cyprus.
Since 2003, the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project has conducted archaeological fieldwork in the Republic of Cyprus under the direction of Bill Caraher of the UND Department of History. It is one of very few archaeological projects in the Mediterranean to support an artist-in-residence program, Caraher said.
Stander's photos seek to present the relationship between the archaeologist at work in the field and the physical and natural environment. Portraits, landscape views, and dynamic work images capture the intersection of physical energy, personality, and the striking archaeological and natural landscape of the Cypriot coastline.
Stander’s photos will be at the Empire Arts Center through the end of the month. The exhibit is free and open to the public and is open during Empire Arts Center events and by appointment. Check the Center’s Web site for a calender of this month’s events. An online exhibit supported by the Working Group in Digital and New Media will be released later this week.
Useful links
William Caraher home page www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wcaraher/HomePage.html
Ryan Stander blog Ryan's blog Axis of Access http://axisofaccess.blogspot.com/
Pyla Koutsopetria Archeological Project Web site www.pkap.org/
Pyla Koutsopetria Graduate Student Perspectives http://mediterraneanworld.typepad.com/pylakoutsopetria_graduate/Contacts:
Bill Caraher, assistant professor
UND Department of History
william.caraher@und.eduEmpire Arts Center
415 Demers Ave, Grand Forks
701-746-5500
www.empireartscenter.com
And here is the first part of a three-part interview prepared by my public history internship program (for a reflectve, behind the scene's view of their work check out the intern's office blog: The Muse's Web). The interview was produced by Kathy Nedegaard, Sara McIntee, and Chris Gust, conducted by Chris Gust and edited by Sara McIntee. It was conducted in our almost-finished Working Group in Digital and New Media Laboratory.
Topos/Chora: Photographs of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project by Ryan Stander
It’s my pleasure to announce a new contribution to the work of the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project. If you followed our various blogs this summer, you are likely already familiar with the contribution of Ryan Stander, a M.F.A student focusing on photography who served as our Artist-in-Residence this past field season. He has begun processing and printing the photographs that he took this summer and we are discussing how best to disseminate them to a wider audience.
As the first step, Ryan created this poster and offered the following description of his work. While the specific details of our presentation of Ryan’s work are still being worked out, it will almost certainly involve a gallery show, an online show, and some kind of publication. As his artist’s statement represents an interplay between his vision as a photographer and the project’s archaeological goals, we are planning to include the voice of archaeologists in the final presentations of his photographs.
Watch this space for more information on Ryan Stander’s Topos/Chora.
Ryan Stander
Topos and Chora
Photographs of the Pyla-Kousopetria Archaeological Project
“The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project (PKAP) has investigated the 2 sq. km coastal zone of Pyla Village in Cyprus since 2003. The project is a transdisciplinary, landscape-oriented investigation that has drawn upon an international team of archaeologists, historians, geologists, illustrators, and other specialists to produce a vivid, diachronic, archaeological history of a significant coastal site.”
“Since its inception, photography has played a key role in archaeological research. Tendencies to view the camera’s eye uncritically as an objective representation of material reality have gradually given way to more sophisticated understandings of the camera’s role in producing the kind of illusive objectivity that formed a compelling foundation for archaeological knowledge. While photographs of artifacts, architecture, and even topography will continue to appear as evidence for archaeological arguments, there has been less attention to work of photographers in creating the same kind of dynamic, discursive landscapes that archaeological knowledge imagines. By incorporating an experienced landscape photographer into a landscape archaeological project, we seek to problematize in an explicit way the role of photography in the creation of archaeological knowledge.”
– From the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project Artist-in-Residence Invitation
Ancient conceptions of place varied widely between Aristotle’s preference for topos and Plato’s emphasis on chora. Aristotle’s topos suggests objective point on a map that exerts no actual influence upon those who enter. Whereas Plato’s preference for chora, which draws upon the etymological root of “choreography,” as the reciprocal dance between humanity and environment. While topographic mapping and Global Positioning Systems are remarkably helpful to research and convenient for day-to-day living, it is through continued presence and interaction in the landscape that allows the intimacy of chora to emerge from the plotted points and coordinates. While archaeological work relies upon topos, it cultivates chora.
My work for the PKAP residency functions on several levels: documentary, landscape, and archive of topos and chora. By drawing upon both ancient conceptions of place, I was keenly aware of our contemporary presence in the landscape as researchers. This reflexive stance guided my efforts to document this emerging diachronic perspective of the historical landscape. As human presence transforms topos to chora it becomes archaeological evidence. Similarly, the photographic project provides a document of ongoing human presence and an alternative archive of evidence of the 2009 PKAP field season in this Mediterranean landscape.
Pyla Koutsopetria 2010 Newsletter
One of the casualties of this year’s hectic schedule was the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project Newsletter. Each year, the PKAP directors produced the venerable newsletter and printed it out, in color no less, on paper. But this year, with Scott Moore being department chair in History at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, David Pettegrew frantically working on two books with a newborn in the house, and my typical hectic schedule (with seems somewhat lame in comparison), the newsletter did not appear in paper form.
But, we’d be remiss if we didn’t keep our PKAP Public appraised of our winter work and summer plans.
Summer 2009
The 2009 field season was our most successful to date. Our main focus was our continued work on a series of soundings at Pyla-Vigla and Pyla-Kokkinokremos. On Vigla, Prof. Dimitri Nakassis assisted by David Pettegrew and Brandon Olson (Penn State) directed soundings designed to establish the date of the fortification wall discovered in 2007 and to try to learn more about the maze of walls across the interior of the plateau. While we were not able to date the fortifications with any precision despite moving over 2 m of earth, we were able to establish that the structures across the interior of the Vigla plateau were most likely domestic in nature and had an important phase dating to the Hellenistic period. Michael Brown and Dr. Sarah Costello (University of Houston) opened two soundings on Pyla-Kokkinokremos in an effort to continued to clarify the function, chronology, and organization of this Late Bronze Age site. Michael directed the research at this site and it will appear in his University of Edinburgh dissertation which should be completed this summer. We also returned to excavations at Pyla-Koutsopetria which had been begun almost 20 years earlier by Dr. Maria Hadicosti. We sought to determine the phasing and chronology of a collapsed room apparently associated with an Early Christian basilica complex. Dr. Sarah Lepinski and graduate student Dallas Deforest (Ohio State) expanded two earlier trenches and revealed multiple episodes of destruction and repair at the site.
We could not have accomplished our work across all three sites without the help of a gaggle of Messiah College undergraduates: Melissa, Becky, Kyle, Nick, Courtney, Rachel, Caitlin, Matt, and the inimitable Alex. This group was joined by Jon Crowley, a three year PKAP veteran from IUP and Paul Ferderer a graduate student from UND.
We also had the assistance of Prof. Beverly Chairulli and her remarkable Ground Penetrating Radar rig. While we still await the final results of her work at Vigla and across a series of survey units with high density artifact scatters some 300 m to the north of Vigla, we are optimistic that these will enable not only to discover new activity areas in the Pyla-Kousopetria region, but also to show that our modest soundings represent small windows into the extensive and still unexcavated remains. By using GPR (along with earlier seasons of resistivity and intensive survey), we have been able to learn a significant amount of information about the sites in our region, while only excavating small areas.
Susan Caraher worked not only in the field each day, but also collaborated with Sarah Costello to keep artifacts moving through processing at the museum storerooms in an orderly way. Without the care of our registrars data collected from the field would be lost.
As anyone who follows this blog knows, we continued our Artist-in-Residence program with Ryan Stander, an M.F.A. student in photography from UND (for more on them see below!) . The video work of Ian Ragsdale complemented Ryan’s spectacular photographs and we look forward to the third installment of the PKAP documentary series this coming fall!
Last, but not least, graduate student Dalton Little (UND) worked with us as camp manager and cook bringing his own unique brand of cranky efficiency to the project. Ian’s wife Randi also joined the PKAP team and helped with all manner of archaeological and child care related tasks necessary to keep the project running smoothly.
Winter 2009-2010
This has been a particularly hectic summer for most members of the PKAP team. Not only was Michael Brown frantically working to complete his dissertation, but rest of the PKAP team began the process of writing up the results of our 7 years of field work and study. As a result, we now have first drafts of 3 or 4 substantive chapters completed for the final publication of our work in the Pyla-Koutsopetria micro-region.
We also made significant strides in entering and processing the massive quantity of archaeological data recorded in the field over the past 7 seasons. A diligent group of interns keyed and collated data in the Working Group in Digital and New Media laboratory on the UND campus. As a result, we have completely digitized the results of our survey and our excavation notebooks. So, PKAP researchers can now access both images of the paper copies produced in the field and the keyed version of the same data into a relational database. Over next few months we hope to have the remainder of our finds keyed into our ever expan ding finds database, as well as the linked to our massive collection of both site and artifact photographs.
The winter of 2009-2010 also saw the exhibition of Topos/Chora, the work of Ryan Stander our artist-in-residence. Again helped by a team from the Working Group in Digital and New Media, we helped Ryan produce a gallery show at the Empire Arts Center in Grand Forks, but also created a more permanent online gallery of his photographs from Cyprus accompanied by a series of essays, podcast interviews, and a special trailer of Ian Ragsdale’s forthcoming documentary. Here’s the link.
Summer 2010
This summer, we plan to have much smaller team accompanying us to Cyprus. While we will still bring together students from Messiah College, IUP, and UND, and researchers from across the U.S. and Canada, we will focus our energies on completing the documentation of the finds from the various soundings excavated over the past 2 years. Scott who has played more of a supporting role the past few years will take center stage and direct the work at the Museum. Since Susan Caraher won’t be joining us this year, this will involve not only setting research priorities, but also making sure that artifacts move through the museum in an orderly way.
While this can sound like boring work (compared to the excitement of excavating), the chances of discovering something really exciting is, in fact, every bit as high. A single sherd can change the dating of an entire building and a link our small site on the Cypriot coast to trade networks that span the entire Mediterranean.
As per usual, we’ll keep the PKAP Public up-to-date with blog posts, tweets, and podcasts from the field. We’ll make an announcement here when the our little army of bloggers begin to produce content again! So, stay tuned!
The Personal Archive
I’ll admit that I am currently obsessed with Omeka (and particularly excited about their new foray into cloud hosting). As any reader of this blog knows, it’s a free, open-source web-publishing platform. And I have begun to use it extensively to publish images from my archaeological work in the Mediterranean. The software is powerful and relatively easy to use. I’ve managed to build three archives so far. The first included the works of Ryan Stander who was the artist in residence at the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project this past summer. The second, which I featured in this blog yesterday, included images taken of the site of Lakka Skoutara over the course of 9 years showing archaeological formation processes playing out in the Greek countryside. Yesterday, I uploaded a series of maps documenting the distribution of material across our study area in Cyprus. The maps show the distribution of artifacts by chronotype across the coastal zone of Pyla Village, and these maps will be linked to places within a working draft of a chapter for the upcoming PKAP monograph on the distributional analysis of material at the site.
Distribution of Hellenistic to Early Roman period artifacts
Distribution of Early Roman period artifacts
Eventually, a working draft of this chapter (part of which have appeared, albeit in very fragmentary forms in this blog in Thinking Out Loud One, Two, Three, Four) will appear on my Scribd page or, better still, in my Omeka archive alongside the other maps and images using their clever Google powered document viewer plug-in.
None of these applications took me more than a few hours to find my comfort zone and I can uses these applications to continue to expand the personal-professional archive that began with the blog. Each archive is designed to accommodate different types of material, operates with slightly different principles of organization, and has a different aesthetic of display (or user-interface as the kids call it).
The scholarly process becomes more transparent and de-mystified.
Friday Quick Hits and Varia
Some cool quick hits on a chilly spring Friday morning:
- If you haven't tracked it down yet, check out Dan Reetz's home page and blog.
- The Electric Archaeologist is experimenting with Vue (Visual Understanding Environment) here and here.
- The Iklaina Archaeological Project publishes its final reports online on a fairly nice looking site.
- Here's an update on the project sponsored by the University of Bristol to included homeless people in the excavation of an urban site.
- Here's a link to a somewhat interesting First Monday article on how students use Wikipedia and an interesting article on how peer governance works on that site.
- My lovely wife has offered to get my an iPad for my birthday. At the same time, I've been talking the Scott Moore who recently purchased a Kindle. And now I discover that I can read Kindle books on my Mac in a real mediocre way.
- Did I link to this interesting (and sort of long) talk by J. Zittrain on the Historical Record in the Digital Age?
- Some of Ryan Stander's work based on his time in Cyprus was recently declared indecent by the good folks at the County of Somerset Culture and Heritage Council.
- This is a very funny version of Classics version of Adam Sandler's Hannukah song produced by students at my old stomping ground, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
- Joel Jonientz, one of our collaborators in the Working Group in Digital and New Media, interviewed Art Spiegelman.
- One of the fun things to do during the NCAA tournament is to check Google Trends to see what universities are getting lots of attention for their teams' success during the NCAA Tournament.
- For a tiny bit, it looked like New Zealand v. Australia might be interesting, but then folks settled in.
- Bristol this week.
- And the NCAA Tournament. I broke my own record for how quickly I could lose my NCAA Champion (Georgetown): first day, third session. What was I thinking?
As a point of comparison, I captured this photo at 7:22 am today. Compare it to the capture from 24 hours before.
Abandonment Again
I keep thinking about abandonment in both modern and ancient contexts and wondering why (and to a lesser extent whether) there seems to be a recent upswing in public interest in abandonment. I’ve written elsewhere about the work of such photographers as Yves Marchand and Romain Meffree, Camio Jose Vergara (via Kostis Kourelis) and James D. Griffioen (we can now add (thanks to Ryan Stander, Jeff Brouws, and thanks to Aaron Barth, Brian Herbel), and from closer to home the folks at Ghosts of North Dakota and the haunting 2008 Nation Geographic article “The Emptied Prairie“). I’ve contributed my own fuel to the fire by co-chairing a panel at the 2007 Archaeological Institute of America which focused on abandonment in the archaeological record.
In a forthcoming article (yes, I know…) in the International Journal of Historical Archaeology, I argue, among other things, that abandonment, in its many guises, served as a chronological marker for the end of something. Typically, the something was the abandoned building or object or space, and since archaeology tends to plot the rise and fall of civilizations (in its crudest forms) according to the life history of objects, buildings, and spaces, the abandonment of such things typically serve to mark out the end of a particular culture or period of time. Thus, abandonments are central to the way in which we create historical and chronological periods from the events of the past. Abandonment helps us organize time.
There is an inevitability to abandonment which evokes tragedy. Despite the best intentions of humanity, time (as an active agent) inevitably takes its toll on human constructions and brings them down. In these formulations, abandonment brings to the fore both the power of nature and the folly of human ambition. What I am more interested in, however, is whether our current focus on abandonment is meant to bring about and mark out the end of some era. For as long as history has existed, people have declared history to be at an end. Since the Enlightenment, this call has most frequently been triumphant (see, for example, Fukuyama’s End of History and the Last Man), but in our current fixation on abandonment, it seems to be tragic. The focus of abandonment — monumental hotels, bustling factories, middle class suburbs, rural towns — cut across American and Western society and suggests a kind of all encompassing futility.
Of course, the celebration of the futility of human works could point to an interpretation that is not simply apocalyptic. The end of one era of achievement whether inevitable or calculated (was the Roman Republic assassinated?) typically ushers in the dawn of a new age. If we see abandonment as a critique of past folly, and it seems that some works that celebrate the return of nature to abandoned places see abandonment as the first step toward a return to a more environmentally conscious and humane world. A post-American landscape sees the collapse of the densely packed urban world and the sprawling suburbs as marking the beginning of a new time.
In fact, it may be necessary to mark or even promote the end of an era in order to take credit for building something new. It was common for ancient rulers to celebrate renewal or return to past glories. They took particular pride in the Early and Middle Byzantine periods for the reconstruction, rebuilding, or refounding of institutions or buildings long abandoned. In these narratives, abandonment continued to mark the folly of the past, but also placed hope in new beginnings.
Red River Valley History Conference: Friday, March 5, 2010
via Doctoral Bliss
This Friday, March 5, the Beta-Upsilon Chapter of Phi Alpha Theta will host its 5th Annual Red River Valley History Conference at the Memorial Union on the UND campus. Several student will present papers on a variety of topics. In addition, staff from our Dept. of Special Collections, as well as local archivists will present a panel on careers in public history. Finally, Dr. Robin Jensen will deliver the keynote address as part of the 2010 Robert Wilkins Lecture at 4:00PM entitled “Living Water: Rituals, Spaces, and Images of Early Christian Baptism”. Below is the schedule of panels:
Panel 1: (9:15-10:30)—Memorial Room
Race and Gender in 19th Century America
Chair: Daniel Sauerwein, UND
“No Country For End Men: A Re-Evaluation of American Small Ensemble Blackface Minstrelsy From 1843 to 1853.” By Dorothea Nelson, UND
“Independence in Cape Palmas: The Contentious Path for Autonomy in Maryland in Liberia” By Matthew Helm, UND
“Women and the American Civil War” By Chad Holter, UND
Panel 2: (9:15-10:30)—President’s Room
Controversy in American History
Chair: TBD
“What Are You Afraid Of? How Governments Have Reacted to Real (or unreal) Threats” By Mark Hermann, UND
“The Lost Environmentalists: The Struggle Between Conservative Christianity and the Environment in the 1970s” By Neall Pogue, NDSU
Panel 3 (10:45-12:00)—Alumni Room
Material Culture, New Media, and How They Shape History
Chair: TBD
“Grandma’s Cookie Jar” By Kathryn Nedegaard, UND
“French Heritage Tour 2009 – Directed by Dr. Virgil Benoit with IFMidwest” By Emilie VanDeventer, UND
“William Bligh or Jack Aubrey? Two Alternative Historical Views of Nelson’s Navy” By Jon Eclov, UND
Panel 4: (1:00-2:30)—Memorial Room
“Career Paths for History Majors: Opportunities in Museums and Archives”
Chair: Daniel Sauerwein, UND
Leah Byzewski, Director, Grand Forks County Historical Society
Curt Hanson, Head, Department of Special Collections, UND Library
Mark Peihl, Archivist, Historical and Cultural Society of Clay County
Michael Swanson, Assistant Archivist, Department of Special Collections, UND Library
Alison Voss, Head Curator/Director of Education, Bonanzaville
Panel 5: (1:00-2:30)—Alumni Room
Art and Faith in European History
Chair: Dr. Bill Caraher, UND
“Caught between the Old Man and the New: Women and the Body of the Soul in High Medieval Ghost Stories” By Christopher Gust, UND
“The Theology of Existential Salvation in the Interrogative Sayings of the Desert Fathers” By Paul A. Ferderer, UND
“A wild boar from the forest:” Martin Luther as a Model of Rebellion, 1520-1525” By Danielle Skjelver, UND
“The New Topographics: Emergence and Legacy” By Ryan Stander, UND
Panel 6: (1:00-2:30)—President’s Room
The Power of Persuasion in early 20th Century America
Chair: Dr. Kimberly Porter, UND
“Father Coughlin: A Historiography of the Radio Priest” By Emilie VanDeventer, UND
“Henry Ford’s Anti-Semitism and Influence on the Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei (Nazi Party)” By Paul Robinette, UND
In addition, conference participants have the option to partake of a lunch and there will be displays for various on and off-campus entities, including the Society for Military History, Elwyn B. Robinson Dept. of Special Collections, Civil War items by Stuart Lawrence, to name a few. I hope you will come out and join us if you are in the area.
O’Kelly Graffiti under Erasure
Late Friday afternoon(always a sneaky time of day in an academic building) people from University of North Dakota facilities painted over the famed Rich2 (aka King Rich) graffiti wall in O'Kelly Hall. UND's Integrated Studies Program had originally commissioned the work and it graced the entrance hall to the program.
Unfortunately, in an interesting example of attitudes toward control, "the administration" (with all of its pleasant ambiguity) reasserted their ownership over the wall (and their control over buildings) and slated it for renovation sometime last summer. Once it was clear that the wall would be destroyed the Provost commissioned Rich Patterson, a well-known graffiti artist from New York who earned an undergraduate and graduate degree at UND, to prepare a new work on canvass to hang in the place of this work. Ryan Stander covered these developments in the fall in his blog Axis of Access. They were picked up by bloggers elsewhere.
At the same time that cash-strapped universities all across the US are beginning to liquidate their art collections, UND has thought outside the box by beginning to destroy parts of their collection while commissioning new works. This might account for why visitors to the building have asked whether these projects are being funded "by stimulus money" noting how long the projects are taking to be completed and the dubious value of their contributions to campus life. They aren't being paid for by stimulus money and I am not sure that stimulus money was designed to pay for make-work projects. The parallel between the stimulus package and various New Deal programs is amusing, though, and suggests that some of our students are using historical knowledge in a critical way. We offered U.S. History 1920-1945 in the fall.
One of the great things about Rich's work is that, first, simple primer did almost nothing to cover it. I was lucky enough to spend some time with Rich when he was on campus, and he certainly understood the ephemeral quality of graffiti art. In fact, he told me that rarely would his works last a week on the trains of New York. So, in some ways the long life of the O'Kelly wall makes it an exceptional example of the medium.
His signature seems particularly resistant to erasure.
Even when we know that fresh paint will eventually cover the graffiti, it is clear that Rich knew how to make traces of his work last. He clever extended the design to the ceiling marking the acoustic tiles and the aluminum rails that support them.
Come over and visit the wall at O'Kelly when you have a chance. Its liminal state — between visibility and erasure — captures the ephemeral essence of the medium and evokes the ambivalent reception of the art itself.
Friday Quick Hits and Varia
Some odds and ends on a snowy Friday.
- Ryan Stander, who is rapidly becoming the star of this blog, has some photos showing with this project here.
- I’ve been thinking about the recent vogue in photographing abandoned buildings. Kostis posted on it this past week, he linked to an article by Camio Jose Vergara, and I’ve been mesmerized by the photographs of James D. Griffioen. I wonder what this all means…
- A thoughtful review of PBS’s Digital Nation by Henry Jenkins that offers some interesting observations on writing in our digital age.
- I’m not a huge fan of the 20-20 format in Cricket, but this must have been an exciting game, and it’s great to see Shaun Tait be successful again.
- My public history intern’s blog, The Muses’ Web is so far pretty successful.
- Some fun articles came across my desk this week: from Ottoman cemeteries to digital Catalhoyuk (via Shawn Graham)
- For those interested in seeing me in the flesh: February 24, 2010 – I’m giving the Elwyn B. Robinson lecture at the Chester Fritz Library on campus at the University of North Dakota; the talk is “Digital Archaeology: Technology in the Trenches”. On April 29, 2010, I am going to give one of the Faculty Lecture Series Lectures, probably at the North Dakota Museum of Art, paper title tbd.
- So this kid is going to put Bear, Delaware on the map. Sweet.
I am ready for the weekend! Enjoy the big game and the unofficial start of NASCAR season.
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