Friday, December 29, 2017

Teotihuacan fracas: Pasztory claims she was ripped off and ignored by Millon & Cowgill

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Esther Pasztory I just read a strange and inflammatory paper by Esther Pasztory in the Mexican journal, Anales de Antropología   (...
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Wednesday, December 27, 2017

Does archaeology have value outside of archaeology?

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What is the value of archaeology for individuals, institutions, and disciplines beyond archaeology itself? This is the topic of a recent art...
Sunday, November 19, 2017

Why I dislike TAG, and why I dislike social media

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I saw a tweet a week or two ago about the upcoming TAG ("Theoretical Archaeology Group") conference. I made an offhand negative ...
Tuesday, July 4, 2017

Science, publishing, and James E. Heath

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I started this blog ten years ago with a quote from my father-in-law, James E. Heath: "If it's not published, it's not science....
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Saturday, April 22, 2017

Qualitative-quantitative bus joke

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A quantitative evaluator, a qualitative evaluator, and a normal person are waiting for a bus. The normal person suddenly shouts, “Watch out...
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Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Social media attack to blog post to journal article

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figure from my paper My paper, "Social Science and Archaeological Enquiry", was just released, online, by the journal Antiquit...
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Thursday, January 26, 2017

The speculation scale (the inverse of empirical adequacy)

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ASU student Lisa Gallagher in our lab I am posting this from the ASU lab at Teotihuacan in Mexico. I will be attending a conference on ...
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Tuesday, January 24, 2017

Is Academia.edu really such a bad thing?

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Academia.edu has been getting a lot of negative press in the scholarly community. I see some of this on Twitter, and I've been sent some...
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