adminrjoe Justice Roberts references the Aztecs, Kalahari Bushmen, the Han Chinese and the Carthaginians in his dissenting opinion on the right of Gay Marriage: The majority’s decision is an act of will, not legal judg- ment. The right it announces has no basis in the Consti- tution or this Court’s precedent. The majority expressly disclaims … Read more
The ShovelBums version of the Kübler-Ross 5 Stages of Grief when losing/breaking your first trowel My long time friend Penny DuFoe Minturn posted today that she had lost her first trowel – which she mentioned has been around since a project we were together in ’88 at Pueblo Grande – which is where my First … Read more
Fossilized human footprints believed to be of an adult male, adult female and a child and estimated to be more than 13,000 years old were discovered on Canada’s Calvert Island, which is located on B.C.’s central coast and is accessible only by boat, float plane or archaeologists who are really looking to get away from … Read more
Thanks to Lorna Richardson for this! @lornarichardson Check out Colleen Morgan’s new poll for archaeologists “Do you still use film in archaeology? Or are you purely digital“
Do you still use Film Photography in Archaeology? (update) Posted on June 25, 2015 | Leave a comment Five years ago I posted a poll regarding digital vs film photography in archaeology. I’m finally publishing a lot of my writing about photography (I know, I know!) and I’d like an update on this poll. If your browser is messing up the … Read more
Devil’s Den Corpses at Devil’s Den after the battle of Gettysburg in Pennsylvania, 1863. Today, it is a tourist attraction. ‘Photographers would come along with their wagons and set up on the battlefield. They’d drag bodies to different places and pose them. It was a very new medium, so everything was fair game.’ Angela … Read more
1st posting of 2015 – A Happy and well employed New Years to all! (See a link below the fold for my pithy, but well intentioned, thoughts on the New Year 😉 Onto the posting! Best, R. Joe The Archaeological and Historical Conservan cy is hiring local archaeological technicians for completion of field excavations … Read more
The Great Basin Institute, a Reno-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization, is hiring up to two (2) Cultural Resource Field Technicians, including one Senior Field Technician, to focus on cultural resource survey and preparation of site records. Field and office work will be focused on Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest managed lands primarily within the Bridgeport and Carson … Read more
Chicora Foundation, Inc., a non-profit research organization in Columbia, SC is looking for four field technicians for a 14-mile transect survey in the Aiken County, SC vicinity. It is imperative that candidate be able to work 8 hour days in a variety of conditions. Current weather is very hot and humid. Stooping, bending, … Read more