every once in a while the past lets us get a glimpse of experiments that didn't work!

Honestly we are much more sheep than wolves - intensely political, terrified of anything new in the environment, and extremely hostile to outgroup sheep who arrive as newcomers and try to join the flock.

staying in the outlands, what about monogram RMA?

Turns out I still have a picture of Igl se Wighættefagol for when I fostered him for the holidays and took him to see Pictish stones.

20 odd years later, I think about her* often

*The phrase "þæt wæs gōd cyning".

and, not for nothing, there is a further acute moral injury in becoming so used to it all, and so used to it not mattering, that you begin to think of terrible crimes with real victims along the lines of "maybe this will be what hurts him politically"

making fieldwork more accessible is a definite issue - thanks for adding your voice!

check out James Deetz's In Small Things Forgotten for a lovely little introduction

that's the bread-and-butter of historical archaeologists, though I'm not sure who's teaching and where these days

a type of typo of type of, for sure!

that sounds like an excellent class! Really good to remember that archaeology is, or can be, a way of looking at the world, and it doesn't have to involve deep antiquity