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Secondary Refuse: job interview stories
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Thursday, December 8, 2011. Check out this post. By Michael Smith on "War stories from academic job interviews." Interesting stuff, and may give some hope to those of you on the market! He categorizes his job interviews as "successful", "in good faith", and "in bad faith". The "bad faith" interviews are those where someone else was chosen for the job before you arrived. The other regrettable interview was at a small, poorly-ranked undergraduate school...
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Secondary Refuse: cave lion diet breadth
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Cave lion diet breadth. Summarizes a Quaternary International. The stable-isotope analysis sounds fantastic. I'll look forward to reading more about a technique this detailed. But, the lines that really struck me from the article are these:. The cave lion diet, Bocherens says, appears to have been much more finicky than that of today’s lions, which eat just about anything they can catch. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).
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Secondary Refuse: May 2012
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Friday, May 25, 2012. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). I'm an environmental archaeologist, an assistant professor at a liberal arts college, and a parent. Not necessarily in that order. View my complete profile. Hands-On Archaeology: How to Make Pitch Sticks. Language, Power, and Pot: Speaking of Cannabis as Medicine. Support for Taxing the Rich is Growing among All Americans. Who needs an osteologist? A Hot Cup of Joe. Book Review: Stories in Stone.
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Secondary Refuse: a whole new class: environmental anthropology
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Thursday, January 12, 2012. A whole new class: environmental anthropology. Before tenure, one should never re-prep an entire class. But, of course, I did. I've taught an environmental anthropology class twice before, but was never happy with it. I tried a couple different textbooks and readers, and nothing worked for me. They didn't cover the topics I wanted to cover with the perspectives I wanted to include. I think it will be a lot of fun!
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Secondary Refuse: January 2012
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Thursday, January 12, 2012. A whole new class: environmental anthropology. Before tenure, one should never re-prep an entire class. But, of course, I did. I've taught an environmental anthropology class twice before, but was never happy with it. I tried a couple different textbooks and readers, and nothing worked for me. They didn't cover the topics I wanted to cover with the perspectives I wanted to include. I think it will be a lot of fun!
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Secondary Refuse: July 2011
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Sunday, July 3, 2011. An anthropologist gets a lesson from fiction writers. I've enjoyed reading Patricia Wrede's blog about writing. Yes, she's talking about fiction writing, but some of her posts (how to keep organized, get over periods of ennui, etc.) can be useful to academic writers, as well. Her most recent post. We're being productive, right? The problem is, we end up with more abandoned manuscripts than finished ones. Serious problem. The boy eve...
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Secondary Refuse: December 2011
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Thursday, December 22, 2011. Writing a statement of purpose for graduate school. At writing a statement of purpose. So, I'd like to present a short guide to writing graduate school statements for anthropology/archaeology students (but applicable to many other fields).*. Your statement of purpose should fulfill three main goals:. 1) convince the graduate admissions committee you can write coherently, concisely, and well. Even if you're not sure exactly.
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Secondary Refuse: May 2011
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Thoughts on Archaeology, Academia, and Parenthood. Thursday, May 26, 2011. JAS has the corrected proofs up for two articles about landscape use. This one. Kim, Minkoo. 2011. Woodland Management in the Ancient Mahan Statelets of Korea: An Examination of Carbonized and Waterlogged Wood. Journal of Archaeological Science. Brown, Alex, and Aleks Pluskowski. 2011. Detecting the environmental impact of the Baltic Crusades on a late-medieval (13th–15th century) frontier landscape: palynological an...2) All poli...