Memories of my journey

Coursework:

Archaeology before the bible
Precolumbian histories of America
Food writing
Languages of the Americas

In Archaeology before the bible (from now on ABB) Prof. B- went through slides of sites in the levant (Israel and Jordan, for the most part) that could have been from my own camera. He flipped through places I had forgotten with names that used to come as quickly as my few words of Hebrew but that are now buried deeper than I had realized, if not gone from me entirely. For the next few months, absent as I'll be from any archaeological fieldwork, instead of taking a moment each day to record the doings of serious archaeologists, I'm going to take a moment to record memories of my travels in the levant. This may not be of any interest to anyone else; I'm using this blog now as a journal of sorts for myself. I want to set aside some of my memories of Israel, whether they be main events or just the way unripe carob beans taste from the tree. All are, in their own way, precious to me.

I just realized that over the course of this blog I posted "Serious Archaeologists drink coffee" three times. Guess where my priorities are (and what apparently I need more of).

Serious Archaeologists are off their nut.

Serious Archaeologists write term papers.

Past titles include


Living Outside the World:

Kubrick’s Bloody Black Box and the Humanity of Constructed Realities

Past fieldwork includes:

T's M, NM
The Dixon Archaeology Project, NM

Next up: 

More Dixon archaeology, December 2011! I only even try to contain my excitement when I'm in public. 

That's all, folks! At least all the quotes from this past summer, that is. I think I'll keep this blog for myself as a kind of ongoing scrapbook of my archaeological experiences, and I'm sure that come this winter I'll have more material about what serious archaeologists do and how, which I will type up if my fingers don't freeze and snap off in what I can only imagine will be a seriously cold December in New Mexico.

Serious Archaeologists carve sticks.

Er, wands, and duel in the forest.