Archaeology Along the Tanana River in Interior Alaska
Alaska is a big place. The middle third of the state - itself the size of Texas - is bounded by the Brooks range in the North, and the Alaska range in the South. With a population of only…
Lost in the Collections: A Bioarchaeology Internship at the Smithsonian
During the spring of 2020 I spent three months working at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History as a Bioarchaeology Collections Intern…
Why Hunt Ice Age Megafauna?
Among the most central topics of debate in Paleoindian archaeology is the role humans played in the extinction of dozens of species of Pleistocene animals, which disproportionally fall into the category of megafauna…
My Peace Corps Tonga Experience
Memories and thoughts from my Peace Corps experience…
An Affair of Honor: The Abyssinian Campaign
In the year 1862, Emperor Tewodros of Abyssinia (Ethiopia) found himself in dire straits…
Excavating a Torosaurus in a Denver suburb
I spent a weekend excavating with researchers from the Denver Museum of Nature and Science, after construction workers in Broomfield, Colorado uncovered the remains of a Torosaurus…
Archaeology in Western Mongolia
I spent this summer surveying and excavating stone, bronze and iron age archaeological sites in western Mongolia…
Visiting Fly and Marble Caves with the CU Caving Club
I went on a caving trip last spring to Fly and Marble Caves, located in the sunburnt south of Colorado. The landscape is marked by mesas and cacti, and stunted conifers…
Data Collection in Fairy Cave, Colorado
I recently drove up I70 from Boulder to Glenwood Springs, CO to go caving in Fairy Cave. This cave system is one of the largest in the state…
Excavations at the Maya City of Xnoha
I spent a few weeks last summer as a volunteer with the Maya Research Program, excavating at the ancient city of Xnoha in northwest Belize…
Archaeology at Chief Looking's Village
The archaeological site of Chief Looking's Village sits on a hiltop along the Missouri river overlooking Bismarck, North Dakota…
Gandhi in the South African War
“We were marching towards Chievely Camp where Lieutenant Roberts, the son of Lord Roberts, had received a mortal wound”…
Archaeology on the Comanche National Grasslands
Today hikers, tourists and nature enthusiasts are the only denizens of the Comanche National Grasslands…
Excavations at Pine Ridge: Farmers and Hunters of the Ancient Great Plains
My first archaeological field experience was a field school through the University of Colorado at Boulder, studying pre-columbian archaeology on the northern great plains…
Petroglyphs and Cliff Dwellings
I visited Mesa Verde National Park, and the Ute Tribal Mountain Park near Cortez, Colorado. while Mesa Verde contains the larger and more impressive sites…