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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Here, there, and everywhere
You can tell the semester is well underway because several days have passed without a substantive blog post. Plus I returned on Sunday night from spending the weekend in Savannah with the lady. Nice city, lots of history, but very touristy. Things haven’t been too crazy yet, but like last semester it’s the calm before the storm. On Monday I am leading a 45-minute class discussion/presentation in the Ancient States course I am taking. The week’s overarching topic is kingship and my specific discussion will focus on dynastic Egypt. Fortunately, I am coming off the heels of last semester’s Chiefdoms course, 1/3 of which was devoted to kingship. I’m not an expert on Egypt but know enough to teach a little on it and make it relevant. I wonder if there’s any information out there about Egypt...
Also, I'm starting to zero in on some thesis research to carry out this summer in Honduras. I'm looking to do sort of an ethnoarchaological or landscape archaeology thing at a site called Palos Blancos in northwest Honduras. Palos Blancos is currently a small, close-knit community of farmers and their families. I'm currently doing a broad review of the literature and hope to read everything I can get my hands on about PCAP and the archaeology that has already been done in and around Palos Blancos (including Palmarejo, where the field school takes place).
Posted by Will at February 1, 2006 06:12 PM in Graduate School