Happy New Year everyone ( Read more... )

The article I co-wrote for the SCAs this past summer is available online!

The Commune Era of Olompali: Challenging our Assumptions of the Hippie Lifestyle

(It's an online PDF file, just fyi)

My first paper, I'm very excited and hopefully it will get some responses :D

 Got an awesome summer job that couldn't have come at a better time ( Read more... )

 Just submitted my first paper to be published!

It's going to be in the 2011 Proceedings of the Society for California Archaeology and is titled “The Commune Era of Olompali: Challenging Our Assumptions of the Hippie Lifestyle”

I was going to post the abstract but I'm not sure if I'm allowed to yet so I won't, just in case :D

So exciting!

So I haven't posted here in a while but seeing as how I'm leaving tomorrow morning FOR FIELD SCHOOL I figured I'd better post something ( Read more... )

So last month I took the Census test and got 100% but hadn't heard anything for a while ( Read more... )

Here is an abstract of an article about the artifacts I'm currently helping to catalog.

It's not the whole article, so I'm trying to figure out how to get the rest of it!

Olompali State Historic Park: The Chosen Family Hippie Communehttp://www.archaeology.org/0907/

So I'm at my internship reading through a 2001 article about Sir Francis Drake and how he may have landed in Point Reyes in 1579 and there's this quote: "Like Brigadoon, the mythical village that appeared out of the Scottish mists once in a century, the spit and the cove appear for 10 years, then vanish for about 53 years before reappearing ( Read more... )

Okay, wow. For not being in school for a while, things still manage to be busy ( Read more... )

So, we leave Monday morning, we're going to stock up on food today, I'm packing now, mostly because I won't have much time this weekend considering I'll be out of town for the last weekend of the show, and I still haven't heard back from the guy running the field school. Which, by the way, I'm leaving for the day after we get back from the roadtrip ( Read more... )