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OK. I am starting to narrow down what it is that I would actually like to do once I graduate (I am currently a junior). I worked in my department's repository last quarter and this upcoming quarter I will be doing another internship doing lab analysis (archaeology) and briefly working in the school's ossuary. 

Now, I really like doing all of this. Unfortunately, I'm not exactly sure what direction I should take. The woman that I've been interning for, who is a Phd candidate told me that I should probably be aiming for bioarchaeology--do you all agree as well? 

Please advise. And sorry for any spelling mistakes. It's late and I have a horrible headache, lol...

Dear Colleagues,

Would you please forward the following field opportunities to your undergraduate and graduate students (poster and research objectives attached):

Since the middle of the first century BC, the Dacians – “the bravest and the fairest of all the Thracians” (Herodotus) – have continuously been a clear and present danger for the Romans. The various encounters between the Roman legions and the Dacian kings ended mostly in Dacian victories, culminating with the great and humiliating Roman defeat in 87AD at the First Battle of Tapae. In 106AD, after two campaigns (102-103AD and 105-106AD), Trajan finally succeeded in conquering the Dacia. Our Daco-Roman field project offers students and volunteers two unique excavation opportunities in Transylvania (Romania): Sarmizegetusa, the Roman Capital of the Dacian Provinces, and Racos, the second most important military and religious center in Dacia:


Excavation: Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana – Roman Capital of the Dacian Provinces, Hunedoara County (Southern Transylvania), Romania
Period: Imperial Roman
Excavation dates: July 8 - August 7, 2012

Description:

Sarmizegetusa Ulpia Traiana, the Roman Capital of the Dacian Provinces and first Roman city north of the Danube, is situated in the plains north of the majestic Retezat Mountains, commanding several passes across the Carpathians. Its presence in the heartland of the Dacian kingdoms, a few kilometers away from Sarmizegetusa Regia, the civil and religious capital of the defeated Dacians, is a complex statement of Roman colonial strategies. In 2012, our excavation will continue the exploration of the Forum and associated temples as well as identifying domestic living structures outside the public plazzas. We will also survey the city necropolises and possibly start work on a funeral household enclosure.


Excavation: Piatra Detunata - Durduia, Racos Commune, Brasov County (Southern Transylvania), Romania
Period: Wietenberg (Bronze Age), Hallstatt, LaTene (Iron Age)
Excavation dates: June 3 - July 7, 2012

Description:

The area of the upper Olt River basin between Racos and Augustin, about 12 km in length (jud. Brasov, Romania), has yielded a very complex pattern of settlements, rivaling the Dacian Sarmizegetusa Regia capital complex. Military structures have been identified at Tipia Racosului and Tipia Augustinului. Several other settlements of various sizes have been surveyed on every hill top in the region. The most important feature of the area was the heavily fortified religious and military center of Augustin/Tipia Ormenisului. Our site of Piatra Detunata - Durduia (com. Racos, jud. Brasov, Romania) is situated approximately 4 km from the religious/military center from Augustin/Tipia Ormenisului. The LaTene site is composed by a series of fortified civilian settlements, in very close proximity to one another, spread over a complex and contrasted landscape. The importance of the site also lies in the fact that it was one of the very few that wasn't evacuated as the Roman legions invaded Dacia in 102-106AD. In 2009, we also uncovered several very rich Bronze Age votive shacks, pointing to the presence of a temple complex nearby, adding significant temporal depth to our understanding of the religious landscape.

For more information, see attached poster and objectives description or visit www.archaeotek.org

Does anyone here recommend any QDA software packages? At the AAA this weekend I picked up demos for Provalis, MAXqda, and ATLAS.ti. I primarily work with coding interviews and arranging them in thematic networks, so I'm interested in something that will help me construct good visualizations of networks or semantic maps. I guess I wouldn't mind something that was also good with coding photographs or pictures, but not mandatory.

I've experimented a little bit with an open source package called RQDA, and it's not bad, but I wouldn't mind investing in a licensed package.

Any comments greatly appreciated!

Hello everyone,

I've been Googling for about an hour and I'm having problems finding a complete list of graduate programs specializing in near eastern archaeology. Anyone mind to list some?

Does anyone know of any good articles on different ways to understand numbers in different cultures, preferably from isi web of knowledge?

I've found a few books, but it's going to take some time to get hold of them at the uni library.

To biological anthropologists and archaeologists, how did you get over the...awkward uneasy feeling of working with human bones and remains?

I've been working in a zooarchaeology lab sorting bones of various animals and working my way up to large mammals, but recently I sort of got thrown a bombshell with human bones.

Usually I don't have a problem with human bones, I'm fine handling replicas of skulls and seeing the full skeleton laid out during discussions sessions, but alone in a lab handling a box of human bones, I get this uneasy feeling. Then when I open the box and start to sort them, I feel incredibly guilty and want to apologize to them. I know it's a bit silly right?

I don't know if it's because I'm too sensitive or something, I mean I can still work with bones, it's just that I always feel incredibly apologetic and I handle them with a lot more care than I do with animal bones.

So to people with more experience, how did you like "get over" the guilt or awkward feeling or did you never experience it and I'm just too sensitive an the odd one out?

I'm trying to write a research proposal and I cannot remember this term at ALL. It is driving me nuts? What do you call ideologies or emotions about being tied in some way to the land, stemming from or increasing connections to the land?

Hundreds of Namibians have welcomed home 20 skulls of ancestors taken to Germany more than a century ago.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-15171035

What do you think of this finding that ALL non-Africans are part Neanderthal? Read article here. 

Feel free to comment at this book store site (photo book contest- every bitof trfice helps)

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Hi, does anyone know any recent monographs or article collections on nomadic or travelling groups in Europe and/or northern Africa? I need some light reading over the summer, and I'm want to learn more about that topic to see if I want to do field work related to it in the future. Decade old books, while interesting, are too old to show me how things are in the present day :)

Hello, current cultural anthropology major here. I was wondering if anyone here does permanent field work--as in, always traveling to another country to study the people after being in one location for a period of time? 

I've got the travel bug, I'm sure that a lot of you can relate. I feel restless when I'm in one area for too long. I always feel the need to go somewhere else after a year or two has passed--and I've always been so interested in other cultures. There are so many things that I want to accomplish and so many things that I feel that I need to learn.

So, what are my options? I'm still going to go to school to be an anthropology librarian on the side, just in case none of this works out. But I just wanna' travel and see things and experience life to the fullest. 

I'm not sure if this is allowed, and if not I'll take it down with my most sincere apologies, but I'd like to pimp this awesome field school for those of you seeking college credit and a great digging experience this summer!

http://www.mayaresearchprogram.org/

Maya Research Program is a US based non-profit corporation that sponsors archaeological and ethnographic work in Middle America ( Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, and Mexico ).

Since 1992, research at the Maya center of Blue Creek has been MRP's flagship effort. Blue Creek was a wealthy polity with large monumental architecture. We have excavated much of the public and residential architecture, discovered one of the Maya area's largest caches of jade, and found a large-scale ancient agricultural system.

The staff at Blue Creek includes professors from the University of Texas at Tyler, Georgetown University and George Mason University and graduates from many other universities. Volunteers aged 14-81 have from all over the world have dug at Blue Creek. It's a great learning experience for anyone interested in Maya archaeology!

Check out the link above for more information on costs, project dates, and contact information. Thanks!

xposted to archaeostudents

So I've been on this kick lately.

I also am getting quite heavy into the whole mask and masquerade thing. Cannot remember the name of that one movie with all the people fucking with the masks in it, but that comes to mind. I've happened to find a site that has a ton of porn with masked folks on it. But I have to wonder what is the meaning to the mask, what does each mean, obviously there are masks which mean nothing and are simply worn to conceal identity, at times they are worn to conceal both identity and emotion, while at others the mask seemingly is a purposeful representation of social status and position of power, importance or used to demonstrate a level of submission or domination, perhaps the colors and designs are even made to show and display a message or a specialty.

Any thoughts, advice, or knowledge on these would be great. Better yet, what, where, and when are events and occurrences that take place have to do with the wearing of these sorts of masks outside of the obvious Halloween and certain national holidays found around the world, I expect everyone to comment on this, especially if you live somewhere which the mask is used quite often, or if you have a lot of knowledge or experience with such things.

Hello,

I'm currently working on a cultural anthropology project and my research topic is examining steampunk as a sub-culture. If anyone has any  link or suggestions for anthropology articles on the subject (or general) and wouldn't mind sharing, please let me know!

Thanks! 

hi. anyone knows how our internal clock knows what time is it? i mean, when I say to myself, "wake up at 5am tomorrow", i'd actually wake up at 5 (+/- 5 minutes). i mean, does our brain keeping tab on what time is it, or do i wake up unknowingly and look at the clock and sleep again or something? i cant tell when i'm awake what time is it without see a clock, tho. btw that is a common knowledge, right? that when we tell ourselves to wake up at certain hour, we will? some of my friends can do it too.

A friend of mine just asked an interesting question on his facebook:
Are there any languages/cultures that don't have ANY distinctly gendered naming patterns for people? (Like "female" names ending in vowels, etc)

I have no idea! But I figured somebody here might. Any thoughts?

Thank you!

Hello,

I just got accepted into SDSU and I was wondering if anyone here goes there or went there. Can you tell me anything about the program? Were classes crowded and hard to get into? 

Hello all! I'm looking for some recommendations for ethnographies related to present-day city life, youth, or ICT in:
-Rwanda
-Ethiopia
-Kenya
-Lebanon
-Mexico

Any suggestions? I know this is quite broad, so absolutely anything you think might be remotely related would be really appreciated!

 Hello there, I'm new here. I'm currently an anthropology minor at MSCD in Denver. I've come to ask  you all for some information you might have. It might be a stretch, but I'm pretty desperate.

I'm doing a research paper on the Yakuza in Japan, and need at least one legit written ethnography on the subject. It either must be about them specifically or at least deal with aspects of them (so an ethnography focusing on organized crime that may mention the Yakuza? Or another Japanese ethnography that mentions them?) Any other books/references/whatnot you may have would be awesome as well.

Thanks for your time :)