I havent written too much about my graduate seminar course this semester. Im doing a course called “Medieval British Isles” with 12 grad students in history and English. These students are really some of the best…I feel a little like Ben-Hur in the pre-chariot race part of the movie when he basically says [...]

We started excavating in the field this week. I was hoping to continue today, but the rain last night waterlogged the site. I will post some photos later this weekend. Today we worked on cataloguing and cleaning artifacts in the Anthropology and Forensics Laboratory in the Laclede Classroom Building.
The students are excavating [...]

My students in my Historical Archaeology course have successfully discovered some major findings!
Well, ok, not THAT major. But fun nevertheless. We did some geophysical surveying near the Laclede Classroom Building and located a number of buildings in the landscape that predate the construction of the Laclede building, which was constructed in the early [...]

What have I been doing lately? I have been in the lab developing one of the most exciting technological advances in recent years…”The Billiken Scan 3000!”
Actually, I decided to teach an extra course this semester, “Field Methods in Historical Archaeology.” The students in the class and I are using the campus as our [...]