Time equals Truth: Robert Caro’s Archives
Author Robert Caro’s personal archives will go to the New York Historical Society. Caro is still writing the final volume…
Send Texts in Hieroglyphics, or Do Some Serious Work
Fabricius is a Google Arts & Culture project to use AI to translate Egyptian hieroglyphics. Use it to translate your…
Susan Orlean has SO NOT BEEN HACKED
Some kind of horse-birth-watching-with-wine neighborhood party resulted in famed author Susan Orlean drunk-tweeting to widespread acclaim this Friday night. Orlean…
Intro to Zooarchaeology and More Free Books
Publisher Springer has temporarily made hundreds of textbooks available to download for free during the coronavirus pandemic. For archaeologists, there’s…
A Career in Classics and Anthropology, in and out of Academia
One person’s experience in and advice on combining classics, anthropology, and human osteology in a career: The Skeleton in My…
Mark Twain’s Tiny House
The place where Samuel Clemens, a.k.a. Mark Twain, did much of his writing is an octagonal stand-alone study that his…
Restored Wetlands and a Hotel in Iowa
I enter my Iowa City hotel room and open the curtains to check out the view and there’s a flash…
M.R. Harrington, a.k.a Ramon de las Cuevas
Mark Raymond Harrington was not only an archaeologist and ethnologist, but also a writer. Tellers of Weird Tales has an…
DIY Data Mining
Following a trail from Open Access Archaeology led to this practical guide to extracting data from documents, whether paper or…